DAY 10: Police car scenes filmed

I got the three police car scenes filmed with a bit of difficulty. First off, I had to find a light that could pass for a street lamp going by outside the window. I finally found a clamp-on book light of my sister's and clamped it onto my main lamp that I can twist around above the set. With this setup, I was able to somewhat successfully make it look like there were street lights going past the window. I noticed after I filmed, however, that the motion of the light sort of makes it look like the lights on top of the police car going around, but either way it's fine.

Another problem was the extremely small size of the set I was working with. For most of the scenes I had to use one of those little gray devices that pries the LEGOs off to get a brick off in front of the minifig I was moving. I had to do this for every single frame where there was movement, and it was a pain. Nevertheless, I got the scenes done and I can move on. My mom did well at saying, "Oh my gosh! We just ran over an innocent bystander!" So overall it looks good.

Tomorrow I'll build a similar set to this one for the "Overhead Helicopter" scenes (that's what it's referred to as in the script). I think there are only two of those and from the same angle, so they should take too long. I might have to rig up some sort of night sky backdrop, but I think it will be easier than the police car in general.

The sound editing and such all has to wait until later; right now I only have the voices in with the footage for the most part. I'm still having some trouble with getting the various sound effects since prof1515 (the facilitator of the MoB contest) still hasn't responded to my multiple requests about using online sound effects since they go against his copyright rule. Read the "MoB - Masterpieces of Brickfilming" thread in the Official Contests forum on Brickfilms to see my various complaints.