How would I establish this shot in my no-budget film?

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So my friends and I are planning on making a no-budget dark comedy in which one of the characters is a downed jet pilot!. Now, the Robert Rodriguez film course was very helpful until now, and I'm just stumped how to establish the fact that this character is a jet pilot that bailed from his plane!. I could use various car gauges for quick shots, but besides that I don't know how to create a cockpit background or how to make it so he bails out!. (Plus the problem of most likely having to use a motorcycle helmet and a vacuum hose for the pilots helmet!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Then don't start in the plane!. Start on the ground with a mass of white lines and cloth for the parachute and a half hidden helmet just taken off, dragging himself up out of the gully or ditch he landed in!. Anyone who ejects from a jet (nobody "bails" manually these days) is pretty beaten up, if from nothing else from hitting the wind at several hundred miles an hour!. A shot of blue sky with contrails (need polarizing filter) can establish jet plane if you need it!. Shot of white smoke rising behind hill can establish burning plane's crash site!.Www@QuestionHome@Com