Was it a big casting number – looks like there are quite a few extras involved?
Yes there did seem to be an awful lot of people around. Got to ask the money question – this looks like a pretty high budget spot. Was it, or was it more a case of making a little go a long way? The budget was relatively low nowhere near what you might think. Was there much post involved or did you aim to capture as much in camera as possible? And how closely were you involved in the post process? Was this one of those jobs where you had a pre-viz from the outset and got the VFX crew involved at every stage? Again, doing as much in camera was critical. The transitions were all shot without any kind of motion control or pre-vis, just simply eye matching camera moves from one set to the next. Making these transitions between sets slick just wasnt important to me but getting something that felt like a graceful flow between shots, was. (Post House) MPC were very supportive in this approach, in not coming to them with the usual green-screened, mo-con stuff, but being a bit more organic abou
