DRAMA | MI B: I NTERNAT IONAL
stuff like that. There’s other tools of the trade now like pre-vis, it’s fantastic in prep where you’re essentially doing an animated version of your action scenes.” He continues: “There are also various forms of sketch-up projection, which allows you to see your actors in a virtual wire- framed set with the ability to still move the camera and have the actors move. It’s definitely getting there, all that technology, and will only get better. It takes the guesswork out of things – I used to have to take acetates and put them over the monitor and then draw the set in.” CHALLENGING SCENES One of the aims of the reboot was to expand out of the old environments from MIB 1, 2 and 3, which are largely set in New York City. Dryburgh particularly enjoyed the night scenes in London , as well as the shoot that took the whole production over to Morocco. “It was a lot of fun shooting night exteriors on a street in London,” he recalls, It was fun shooting night exteriors on a street in London, but challenging as we shot in summer, so had short nights
IMAGES To shoot at night, Dryburgh had to wait for the sky to become a very dark blue
16 DEF I N I T ION | AUGUST 20 1 9
Powered by FlippingBook