Part 1 0f 8: Shooting Live
The shoot for 405 was done almost entirely over one weekend. The first day of shooting consisted largely of scenes with the Driver, played by Jeremy Hunt. The bulk of shots on this first day were shot while actually driving on the freeway. The camera used was the Canon Optura DV camera.

This Camera has a single CCD and takes sharp crisp pictures in bright light. The Optura also has a progressive scan mode which is an important feature for shooting images that will later be manipulated digitally. This means that instead of taking 60 fps of interlaced fields, it is capable of shooting 30 fps of discreet frames. This is extremely valuable when adding CG elements or creating composite maps. Today, there are already better cameras out there. Newer models and brands with the same features are available for about $1300. This particular camera was chosen primarily because it was more than adequate and it is the one the filmmakers had access to.

The second day of filming was primarily of Angela Burns. Given that she was not very mobile, she was filmed in front of her residence and the backgrounds had to be added later.

After the initial edit was complete it was clear that a few more shots would be needed to give the proper flow to the story. These pick-up shots that bridged the action together were all of Jeremy, and were shot on the roof of a Santa Monica parking garage on a lunch break. Again additional background would be needed to be added to all of these shots as well.

In all about 70 minutes of DV tape was shot. This was dubbed onto a 3/4 deck where select takes were captured onto a DPS Perception card at lowest quality. The movie was edited with these offline files in Adobe Premiere and an EDL (Edit Decision List) of the final, locked edit was output. Using the Timecode from EDL, only the frames used in the final edit were then brought into the computer from the original DV tapes at full video resolution.