In particular, they had to show him doing physical movements that did not make sense in the physical world but helped sell the fast motion. In order to realize Quicksilver’s lightning speeds (and the effect that has on what the audience sees), the visual effects team had to devise a language for the mutant. This allowed them to be stabilized correctly. The solution was to take still frames of the students and project those back onto their bodies. Here, Rising Sun’s challenge was to make it look as if the students were not on wires for the requisite ‘freeze frame’ moments-“You get a rock and roll effect as they ease on the wires,” said Jones. The actors, fitted with wires, were shot against greenscreen as they were launched out the window. That was filmed via motion control using multiple passes. “But when we got our digital floor in, it was more of a convex surface and we had to change their perspective a little.”Ī later shot sees Quicksilver hoist students out of the mansion windows. This shot was achieved by “filming the kids on a piston setup that raised them up,” explained Rising Sun Pictures visual effects supervisor Dennis Jones. One shot has them in the lobby area as the floor rises up from the explosion. Director Bryan Singer posted this behind the scenes image on his Instagram page of greenscreen wire shoot for the Quicksilver sequence.įor shots of the students mid-air or mid-action before Quicksilver grabs them, actors were filmed carefully holding their poses or supported on wires, especially if they were being affected by the blast. Rising Sun Pictures-which also worked on the Quicksilver shots in Days of Future Past-would then augment this photography with occasional digital doubles, evidence of the mutant’s ‘zipping’ abilities, fire blasts, and the exploding elements. Additionally, shots of the students mid-motion on wires on sets and against greenscreen was captured. Filming therefore took place at the mansion location and on sets where high-speed reference of furniture, walls and even a fish tank exploding was gathered.
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Instead, they live on as indelible quasi-short films while the larger movie has in many cases been dismissed or even forgotten by the mainstream.Still, the filmmakers, including overall visual effects supervisor John Dykstra, looked to acquire as many of the shots as possible in-camera.
In some cases these scenes stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the film, while in others they occur early enough to false set the audience's expectations for the two hours to follow.Įither way, these scenes don't generally get the credit they deserve, entombed as they are within hit-and-miss movies that can't match this excellence throughout.Īs isolated sequences they're expertly crafted and a delight to watch, but will doubtless leave you wishing they were surrounded by stronger films overall. Whether falling short of expectations or simply being acceptably watchable, these films are all fine examples of cinema that lingers in the middle-ground quality-wise - not awful, but also lacking an effective creative spark.īut each of these 10 films also features a single brilliant scene, whether a stunning action sequence or an incredible sliver of dramatic acting, which suggested the filmmakers were all capable of so, so much more.
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