I'm planning on having a scene in my film that takes place on board the Broad Street subway train (I'm in Philadelphia). What i wanna do is turn an actual train station and its subway cars into the movie sets, maybe using real commuters as extras.
To describe the scene, there is a chase scene where the chasee runs down into the train station, the chaser follows after him and the person he is pursuing runs into the train right before the doors slam shut, leaving the thug behind, but as the train takes off, the bad guy jumps onto the railing on the last car, opens the door (at the end of the car) and gets inside.
The bad guy reunites worth the person he's been chasing and a fight ensues. A gun is drawn and shots are fired but nobody is hit. The good guy is eventually able to literally kick his enemy off the train out the back door, so he is rolling down the tracks.
I would love to have a subway scene like that in my film. But aren't they difficult to do? The DP has but only so much room to move around, then there is the shotgun mic person, and let's not forget the director.
BUT
There is always green screen technology! From what i heard, even a big-budget Hollywood film like Safe used a real Philly subway train and green screen to shoot a scene like the one i want to do.
Have any of you on here ever done a fight scene on a subway train?
To describe the scene, there is a chase scene where the chasee runs down into the train station, the chaser follows after him and the person he is pursuing runs into the train right before the doors slam shut, leaving the thug behind, but as the train takes off, the bad guy jumps onto the railing on the last car, opens the door (at the end of the car) and gets inside.
The bad guy reunites worth the person he's been chasing and a fight ensues. A gun is drawn and shots are fired but nobody is hit. The good guy is eventually able to literally kick his enemy off the train out the back door, so he is rolling down the tracks.
I would love to have a subway scene like that in my film. But aren't they difficult to do? The DP has but only so much room to move around, then there is the shotgun mic person, and let's not forget the director.
BUT
There is always green screen technology! From what i heard, even a big-budget Hollywood film like Safe used a real Philly subway train and green screen to shoot a scene like the one i want to do.
Have any of you on here ever done a fight scene on a subway train?