Prior to the Isabel Lucas shoot we saw yes­ter­day and the Bum­ble­bee skid, shoot­ing was tak­ing place at the Cas­tle fra­ter­nity — on cam­pus, “where the party’s at”, or some such.
TFW2005 have pro­vided pic­tures lead­ing up to this, show­ing Michael Bay, Isabel Lucas and Shia LaBoeuf prepar­ing for the scenes and tak­ing time out with some fans. I espe­cially like the shot of Shia tak­ing some time out to sign a toy Bum­ble­bee. Bum­ble­bee, the real thing, can also be seen under his cover — rather indiscreetly:

Report­ing to Powet​.tv, Josh Landow was there later that day to cap­ture video of Bum­ble­bee screech­ing away and pro­vide a report of the events that unfolded:

The frat house is known as The Cas­tle because it looks like a cas­tle. Bum­ble­bee was parked out front and they made it look like he was parked in the bushes. There was a huge light­ing screen over the car, and 2 giant light bal­loons (not sure how else to describe them) float­ing above the set.

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The first shot was a bunch of well dressed good look­ing col­lege coeds walk­ing around to and fro with some of them seem­ingly con­verg­ing on the BB Camaro, say­ing things like “Wow! Cool car.”

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Next shot was the most involved and took about 3 hours to shoot from every which way, with dif­fer­ent light­ing, and with slightly dif­fer­ent lines even. Shia and a few of the bit play­ers were def­i­nitely ad-libbing or at least tak­ing some lib­er­ties with the script. This shot con­sisted of Shia run­ning out of the party because BB’s alarm was going off. Like I said BB was parked in the bushes which gets Sam into some trou­ble with the frat boys who came run­ning after him ask­ing “Hey Fresh­man, is that your car parked in our bushes?” Sam replies “uh uh no, it’s a friend’s car — he went to get a new shirt” (or some­thing dumb like that — they kept chang­ing that line). Frat­boy responds “How about I park my foot up your ass?” Sam says “I’ll move the car now.” He gets in and has (fake) trou­ble clos­ing the door because of all the shrub­bery. It was hard to hear, but when he got inside the car, I think he said some­thing about Decep­ti­cons. And yes it took 3 hours to shoot this.

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Then they moved the crowd back a good ways to shoot some more extras walk­ing about before finally get­ting to the scene that I knew had to be com­ing. Bum­ble­bee backs up and dri­ves away (as seen in my video). This was shot using Bay’s cam­era rigged Porsche Cayenne. I think they shot this like 4 or 5 times with the cars back­ing up to reset after each take