{"id":414,"date":"2017-12-06T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/?p=414"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:17:28","slug":"et-bike-chase-filming-a-bike-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/2017\/12\/06\/et-bike-chase-filming-a-bike-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Bike Chase\/ Filming a bike scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E.T. Bike Chase Scene (1982 Original)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ct6O2nSOMlI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My commercial tells the story of 5 kids on a treasure hunt and for most of their journey they are on bikes. Filming the bike scenes were a challenge, but researching &#8217;80s films that managed to capture the intensity, magic and adventure of a bike chase helped to gain an insight into how to best film it.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing is the setting &#8211; choosing a wide, almost barren landscape is ideal. However, there were limitations set on me &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t realistically take the kids I&#8217;m shooting with out of the area we were filming in, which is a built-up area. This did take away some of the magic of the scene.<\/p>\n<p>However this clip in particular helped me to still capture the action and adventure through POV shots (1:17), close-up shots of dirt and wheels (2:27). Furthermore, the music (fast-paced and quick) also sped up the action, with the sounds of the bikes, and kids further enhancing an already action-packed, adrenaline-inducing, and emotional scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My commercial tells the story of 5 kids on a treasure hunt and for most of their journey they are on bikes. Filming the bike scenes were a challenge, but researching &#8217;80s films that managed to capture the intensity, magic and adventure of a bike chase helped to gain an insight into how to best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/2017\/12\/06\/et-bike-chase-filming-a-bike-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ET Bike Chase\/ Filming a bike scene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}