We most worked on refining our pitches this week. We put time into gathering things that would be helpful to explain our idea and show that it’s possible. When thinking of how to film this we agreed that filming during the day and doing a day to night matte painting would be easier than filming at night. I did a really quick day to night matte painting of one of our location pictures to show what it might look like.
In order to successfully pull off the day to night matte painting we want to film while It is cloudy outside so there are no harsh shadows. We also agreed it would be beneficial to get reference photos of the racetrack at night. This way I could compare my matte painting to actual pictures of the same location at night in order to make it look more accurate.
I also did a paint over of a screenshot from a Pennzoil commercial that we would like to inspire our second shot
We’re mainly focused on the angle and motion of the shot which is why a paint over helps to give an idea of what it’ll look like with our car and effects in it.
We also talked about what color car would be best for our project. Currently we feel that a white or light grey color would work best. Since our scene takes place at night a dark car wouldn’t stand out enough in the dark lighting and a brightly colored car is likely to clash with the colors of the galaxy effect. There are pictures of the Audi R8’s available colors on the Audi website, here are a few that might work for us.
