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“The FS7 was perfect for us with the Atomos Shogun and Inferno on-board”
character Jay, the person who, when he told a story, you just knew it was full of fiction. The start was maybe real, but then it would descend into lies. In Leo’s mind, it has definitely happened this way. So when he has a small altercation, it just so happens that it takes place in the desert. There are cars, Jeeps, tanks in his imagination and he never seems to get hurt in these fights. The film also pays respect to Scott Pilgrim vs the World and all the exes that he went up against in that film,” continues Stephens. “So we’re looking at what we need for these fight sequences including camera packages, but we already have previs for the scenes. The amount of support we’ve had from a lot of UK stunt performers has been great. This means when we finally shoot the action, we can be sure it’ll be great.” There was a UK fight scene, which featured more than 20 stuntmen in a room the size of a pub game room – think in
Shogun or the Inferno to sit on the right- hand side of the camera and be tucked in. “The FS7 was perfect for us with the Shogun and Inferno on-board, they didn’t get in the way at all,” enthuses Stephens. “For most of the shoot, we used Infernos shooting to ProRes Raw HQ. For drone shots, we used a DJI Inspire, again shooting ProRes Raw and then on the last few days of shooting, Dan sent us a Shogun 7 to attach to camera A and we carried on shooting on ProRes Raw with the latest Shogun. We also had Atomos Sumos on set, which were our 19in preview monitors. Our DIT, Ernest Tu, managed all the long takes from the units.
Stephens acknowledges that it is a different process, especially when shooting on two cameras and you’re out on location: “I think with the backups we had about 86TB of footage that needed wrangling. But that was less than what we’d have shooting in just ProRes Video or even CDNG.” DUBAI SHOOT While the UK shooting for School Fight has finished, the production is booked to go to Dubai to shoot dream fighting scenes. “We have a character in the movie called Leo and one of the ways I can explain his character is to imagine The Inbetweeners ’
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