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September 2021 - Media Practice

The fall of 2021 had us pick up the pace with respect to actually doing something in furtherance of our storytelling goals (rather than simply drooling at 718 GTS videos all day). With our newly-acquired bits of camera and mounting gear, we started experimenting with how to properly capture "car video": how could we position cameras .... what kind of cameras .... what settings to use .... what practices to avoid.
Practice on existing vehicles
Mounting Solutions
It was clear we were amateurs, but with each realization came (I hoped) a slight refinement of the final product. Out of our experimentations, we produced a kind of "for sale" video of Luke's 2002 Honda S2000 (which he would be selling as part of his purchase of his new Boxster GTS). Check out that video here:
Car Videography Practice - subject: Luke's S2000
October 2021 - What's the deal with wheels ...?

In October, our attention had shifted ... to wheels. As in, which ones should we choose? Now that we had solid orders for GTS models, we were confronted with deciding which of the three wheel choices that Porsche had made available to us. Namely, "Standard", "Carrera Sport", and "911 Turbo". Observe, if you will, these images:
Standard GTS Wheel
Carrera Sport Wheel
911 Turbo Wheel
There were three wheel styles available with the GTS: a standard wheel, a mid-grade wheel Porsche calls the "Carrera Sport" wheel, and a higher-tier wheel they call the "911 Turbo" wheel. And each came in black on GTS models by default (yuck) but were also available in various types of colors and finishes. A silver/light finish was obvious for us and so that part was a no-brainer. But then, which style?

Luke and I both agreed that the 911 Turbo wheels were too ... I don't know how to put it, but ... too angular. They had a kind of cardboard-cutout kind of rigidity to them that we both found unappealing. And they lacked virtually all concavity, being rather straight-cut along the face. We quickly ruled out the 911 Turbo wheel.

Between the standard GTS wheel and the Carrera Sport wheel, it was less clear-cut. We liked them both, and each of them had some attractive qualities. The Carrera Sport wheel had some nice pronounced concavity, especially for the rear wheels. The style was classic five-spoke, echoing a bit of old 911 Fuchs-ness and also, we generally liked five-spokers. The subtle two-tone that came with the light-silver Carrera Sports was also a quality touch. The style statement was bold and purposeful, and not at all busy. The standard wheel had price going for it. There was $0 extra cost to spec them (vs about $1250 for the Carrera Sports). They projected a look of "lightness", with many thin spokes. Those thin spokes, on the other hand, could at certain angles look a bit spindly. In all, they were quite nice. We were basically torn, but leaning slightly towards the Standard wheel.

In order to try and solve this problem, Luke and I embarked on an October of wheel-visiting. We circulated through various dealerships, looking high and low for cars with the right color and style of wheels. In the end, we didn't arrive at a conclusive choice, but we did now have a very good sense of the wheels (nothing like seeing something close-up, real-life, in 3D). Additionally, I took some online promotional photos and modified them to align with our color and option choices. At the end of this next block of photos is just such an image: an example of a Boxster GTS 4.0 with the Carrera Sport wheels rendered with red calipers, Guards Red color, black roll hoops and a black window surround (something Luke had been contemplating).
Standard GTS Wheels
Carrera Sport Wheels
Front Carrera Sport
Rear Carrera Sport
Situational Carrera Sport Image
October 2021 - Color Creep

In addition to wheel shopping, Luke and I had started to chat about colors a bit more. For quite a while now, we'd decided that we'd decide on a single color and specify both our cars in that same color - to create a sort of "team effect" and tie our cars together symbolically.

For more than six months now, we had been fairly settled on the no-cost Guards Red as that chosen color. But now, other ideas were creeping back into our conversations. Talk of going with more muted colors was one theme - greys, charcoals, and lightly-colored silvers - like Porsche's Dolomite Blue, which in certain lighting conditions looked completely silver but in others had a very subtle and understated tinge of blue. The other theme was blue; and with blue, the main question was: was there a blue that would be both economical AND suitable? (recall, Midnight Blue had already been discounted as too close to black and Gentian Blue had been discounted as having an undesirable purple tint in direct sunlight). There was also the beginnings of real consideration for Carmine Red - a darker and more pure red than Guards Red. We started paying attention to these various colors when we saw them on our various dealer visits.
Dolomite Blue Boxster
Carmine and Lava
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