After the fantastic luck we had with the police cars, we rolled right onto the next major set up - the first confrontation with the villain...
Setting up a sequence of shots that involves human stunts, reverse photography, dummies, composites and visual effects is complicated at the best of times but when you are out in the desert without any equipment and reference material it is a wholly different affair..
The most important thing of course when shooting these types of scenes is preparation - lots of it. Now whilst the pre-production budget didn't quite stretch to pre viz, the director had a very good idea of the sequence and what would be involved and so shot by shot we set it up and ended up with a great little scene by the end of the morning.
One advantage of shooting low budget independent film is not having hundreds of crew working hard and production assistants running around when there are large set ups to be done. Had we been shooting this in the studio style at home it would have taken us three or four days instead of a few hours....
(but would have been nice to have Craft Services every now and again...)
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