DEFINITION February 2020

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A quiet two-header shot circa 2020 – capture evolves

I ’m coining a new phrase and it’s ‘capture’. OK, it’s a word not a phrase, but its meaning perhaps reflects how high-end TV and movies are dealing with high-resolution video with a VFX element. De-ageing was a theme last year with Will Smith’s younger self chasing him around Cartagena in Gemini Man , Samuel Jackson being smoothed over in Captain Marvel and perhaps the most newsworthy de-ageing of them all was of those mean Italian American actors, De Niro, Pacino and Pesci. The Jackson and Smith captures followed a well-trod path, but The Irishman had to think outside the box. Also, don’t forget the ‘capture’ of the cinematography in The Lion King production and the ‘face-off’ technique used in Welcome To Marwen earlier last year. It’s a collective word that encapsulates all the techniques that funnel into that moment when ‘Action!’ is called. With virtual production, however, capture can be extended to changing the moment through game engine efficiencies. Capture can also describe camera-tracking techniques, LiDAR scanning and photogrammetry. You can also include previs, post-vis and tech-vis; even blocking scenes with Unity or Unreal engines can be seen as capturing a virtual set, for instance. You can throw AR and VR in there as well. I think it’ll be a while before a director shouts ‘Capture!’ as opposed to ‘Action!’ but the worlds of cinematography and VFX are continuing to merge. WELCOME

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