Ever wondered what it takes to make a crazy proposal? Here i will explain on how we did it!
Not everybody is friends with local highway patrolmen like us, but i think everybody has some type of cool connection to something and you should make use of it like we did.
Keaton came to us with this crazy idea of how he wanted to propose to Kaitlyn, it was a long detailed email with instructions and placement. We got together and decided to meet at the Highway Patrolman's house (lets call him HP from now on). Once we arrived to his house, Keaton began to explain this crazy idea on how he wanted to set up a big scene and scare her and then come back and propose to her. I was wondering why in the world he would do such a thing but he then proceeded to explain that Kaitlyn knows he is going to propose but he had asked her if she wanted a memorable proposal or a romantic proposal, and she chose memorable.. i don't think she understood.
After exchanging ideas with each other, we walked out to the HP car and looked around to see where we could mount some cameras. Plans later changed and we ended up not needing to film inside his car.
After we had it all planned out, Keaton went out and bought 2 GoPro HD HEROS.
We then covered one of the cameras in all black tap so we could hide it inside of the Jaguar car they would be driving. We put the tiny camera right above the rear view mirror and in the dark you couldn't see it at all. Keaton took her out to diner and went on a drive and then proceeded back to his house (so we could use the dedicated location where us 3 camera guys could film). he stopped at the gas station about a mile away and asked her to go get drinks while he got some gas, as she was inside, he turned on the gopro and sent a text saying he was close. We had a tracking app installed on his phone so we could see his location. as he left the gas station and hit the road, he intentionally floors the car after passing a cop. and get pulled over right at our location where 3 of us were stationed to film over the fence. We filmed the entire thing from the outside view using a Kodak camera and 2 Flips. My flip camera died so i used my iPhone 4 for one of the shots. We had mounted the other gopro on the HP's hood but the memory card got full before he left the parking lot so we ended up using his dash cam footage which i think worked out a lot better.
Once he proposed, we had Keaton's brother (one of the filmers) to come out and take their picture for a surprise and she had no idea we were all hiding 10 feet away! We all then came out and congratulated them and eventually his parents showed up and some friends driving by wondering what was going on.
It was well planned and i think it turned out great. It will be fun for them to show to their kids later on.
I spent about 5 hours editing it all, it was hard putting 5 different camera views together and getting the audio all synced up. We did have a pocket recorder in the car but it ended up taking too much effort to get the audio off in time. So i had to choose the best audio of all the cameras for each little scene. It could have been better but this thing was planned and done within 1 week.
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