Was the Followup Car Blocking a Shot at Z313?

[Drew Phipps]

Tracy's nice color picture reminds me that the chase cars were not modeled on the street in their correct position after "shot 1" (I am not trying to start a discussion on whether this was shot 1). I cannot guess at what distance the chase car was from the limo at the time of the headshot. If we are going to get an answer to the original question we need to have some ballpark estimate of the separation between limo and chase car at the time of the headshot.

I previously said before that 23 feet of separation would be sufficient to make the shot at the angle ascribed to z313 without hitting the higher SS guy in the chase car. Based on the model there (at position 1), the chase car was quite close indeed, less than a car length. IF the chase car maintained that close of a distance, there might be an issue. However, the closer the chase car is, the less elevation change there would be between cars, making the slope of the road less important. The further away the chase car, the more need to account for the slope of the road, but that means there is also more room for the shot to clear above the SS guy.

Maybe the reason the guys that built the model didn't include the chase cars in position at "shot 2" and "shot 3" was because the string got uncomfortably close. It's also a bit odd that, while the string is attached to the model of the limo in roughly the correct position at shot 1, the string is attached to the wrong side of the limo model for the subsequent string lines.