"to the scooter."

In Bikini the girls go from one escapade to another on their trusty scooter. We decided early on that we wanted to shoot these sequences with rear projection. This would give us the look we wanted plus it is almost impossible to shoot driving sequences without shutting down roads. It was hard enough getting the projected footage in long takes. A trash bin, road sign, or modern car would eventually appear. We actually decided to keep the jump cuts that appear in the rear projection footage. It is funny to see the background completely change while the girls are talking. In this clip you can hear the director feeding the girls the lines. We did this a lot. Since we were not going to use the location sound it was possible to feed lines while taping. This was a pain in the editing room. Our first rough cut had the actor speaking as well as the voice of the person feeding the lines. Fortunately the actors did memorize most of their lines. I was the worst offender. Since I was shooting the movie I did not make time to memorize my lines. This would not work well on another type of film, but with Bikini it helped the style.