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LED Eyelight panels. The Citadel had an irrigation system of water flowing through and we used that to get water ripple effects wherever we could. “My DIT Sam Winzar set some looks which varied depending on these exterior or interior locations, we even had a great day-for-night LUT,” states Duggan. “Our final colourist Eric Whipp got involved early on and worked closely with the visual effects team creating final looks for the orange sandstorm sequences and the silver blue cast for day-for-night scenes; he also fixed problems caused by the bad weather by adding blue to the skies, reflections in the chrome War Rig Tank and maintaining the rich colour of the red earth landscapes.” One complex shot occurs after the monster truck driven by Dementus runs down Furiosa’s vehicle. “The camera was attached to the ARRI TRINITY stabilisation system and operated by Mark Goellnicht; it follows the marauders pulling Furiosa and Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke) out of their vehicle, then joining Dementus for the whole scene as a single take executing a couple of 360° movements throughout the action. This took a few hours to rehearse and choreograph the scene with the actors, camera, grip and lighting. The intention was to keep the storytelling aspect continuously unravelling without the need to edit.” The most spectacular pure action scene in the film, the aforementioned ‘stowaway to nowhere’, took 78 days to shoot, featured more than 100 stunt performers and has a runtime of 15 minutes. Naturally, it demanded some serious planning. George Miller and stunt coordinator Guy Norris previsualised the scene using Unreal Engine, with Allan
TOP CAST Anya Taylor-Joy takes over from Charlize Theron as a young Furiosa, while Tom Burke plays Praetorian Jack
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