This is how some people choose to live their life, and it’s definitely an adrenaline rush, but that is not the subject we are exploring today.
This wet road was traveled at a high but normal freeway speed for filming, but then sped up a lot for the video I posted on YouTube: Rainy Oregon Drive (Timelapse) To Siletz Bay in Lincoln City, OR.
Here’s a GoPro timelapse of a wet highway drive to the coast through beautiful woods and vast farmland, with a backing music track on solo piano by me from over a decade ago.
No accidents on the way (sorry/glad — I do pass a police stop at one point)). If you enjoy peaceful scenery and rain but don’t want to drive it, in you are in luck! It’s condensed about 100 minutes into 5 so if you want it slower play with the YouTube speed controls and hum your own song.
Yes, you get to see the high water storm-surging bay at the end (I walked over, didn’t drive into it. That would have been a great surprise ending though…*) If you are going to make a video, you can use it to tell a story and actually put the end on it. Most driving timelapses just peter out at the end, don’t they now. We can do better.
I filmed this as video and sped it up rather than using timed still pictures because you get a more fluid motion in editing when filming a mix of fast and slow objects in the scene.
—David.
P.S. The original audio track is me singing wildly along with classic pop music. I was alone in the extra car, whatchagonna do?
- Man, I know just how to do that, why didn’t I think of it? Let the other car clear the shot and slam the brakes (Or speed ramp to simulate it), insert a broken glass effect overlay and cross-cut to a camera shot from the camera just outside the window, in the waterproof case on a long cord tied around your wrist (or a long boom pole) and run to the bay and throw it in. Then speed ramp it to an appropriate level.
Of course this way you get to actually see the bay…. maybe another time.
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