What was your Brief? / Creative Approach 

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We were required to shoot VFX and live action plates in the Canary Islands, Germany and in the UK. Filming took place in 2018, 2019 and 2020. 

 

Which locations did you film in?

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Canary Islands:

Locations included Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. We filmed around extinct lava fields, and volcanos. 

 

On the helicopter, we used our Shotover F1 gimbal with the ARRI Alexa LF Mini camera and Fujinon Premista 28-100mm lens to capture plates for use in sequences involving the ‘Celestial Mothership’.

 

For our drone filming, we used our Aerigon drone, Alexa LF Mini – or - Alexa Mini using the Zeiss CP.3 lenses on beach locations, ‘Australian Outback’ locations, and on a palm tree-strewn valley location. We were supported on the logistics front by Sur Films. 

 

UK

UK locations included Salisbury Plain, (Wiltshire) Bagshot (Surrey), Oxfordshire, Camden and Hampstead Heath (London). In the UK, our crew provided both single camera and array work. 

 

On the helicopter, we used our Shotover F1 and Shotover K1 gimbals with the Alexa LF Mini camera and Fujinon Premista 28-100mm lens to capture plates for VFX sequences.

 

For drone filming, we used our Aerigon drone, Alexa LF Mini - or - Alexa Mini using the Zeiss CP.3 lenses on beach locations, ‘Australian Outback’ locations, as well as a palm tree-strewn valley location. There was a house that had been built in the middle of Salisbury Plain, so, for instance, we used our Aerigon drone to film a car approaching the house. 

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Germany 

We used our drone to film in German locations, which included capturing plates at a frozen lake at the stunning Staatsbesuch Nature Reserve, whereby our sequences would be used as backgrounds for ice crashing visual effects. Here, we used the Shotover K1 gimbal with the Alexa LF Mini camera and Fujinon Premista 28-100mm lens.