FilmStoryboard
Mountain Pass Drift
A lone car drifts a hairpin at night, headlights carving through fog.
- Length
- 15s
- Shots
- 5
- Format
- 16:9
The storyboard
5 shots, 15 seconds planned. Each still is the keyframe for its shot. The direction beside it describes the action and the camera.
Shot 10:003s
Switchbacks
- Framing
- Extreme wide shot
- Camera movement
- Fast high drone dive following the headlights down the switchbacks
Switchback road snaking down the mountain, a single pair of headlights.
Shot 20:033s
Into the hairpin
- Framing
- Medium shot
- Camera movement
- Tracking side
The white coupe sideways in the hairpin, tyre smoke pouring.
Shot 30:063s
Countersteer
- Framing
- Close up
- Camera movement
- Handheld inside the car, shaking with the drift
Close-up from the passenger seat of the gloved hands on the thin wheel of the 90s coupe, the left hand sliding the wheel as the car drifts, amber analog gauges glowing on the dashboard, the wet road and fog visible through the windshield.
Shot 40:093s
Taillights in fog
- Framing
- Wide shot
- Camera movement
- Fast low drone chase behind the car
Red taillights snaking through fog.
Shot 50:123s
Smoke hangs
- Framing
- Extreme wide shot
- Camera movement
- Low static start, then a fast whip pan following the car past the camera
Empty wet hairpin at realistic scale, a thin drifting layer of tyre smoke hanging low over the asphalt and guardrail, lit by the faint red glow of taillights disappearing far down the road, no car in frame.
The brief
A lone car drifts a hairpin at night, headlights carving through fog. Tyre smoke and light in fog are easy wins. One car means no collision to get wrong.
Visual style
Night car film, cinematic, wet road sheen, haze. Headlights and red taillights only, cool blue moonlight.
Change a shot, render again
This storyboard ships as an example in NodeTool. Open it in the Studio, edit the direction for any shot, and render a new take.