VFX

We have single composite shot that we need to achieve. After the film runs through the explanation animation of ITP the camera pulls out of the blood to reveal a modern day scientist holding a vial of blood. The camera continues to pull back through a window and then to an exterior of the modern day lab which, as it turns out, is the Amgen building.

To achieve this shot, we will capture a modern day scientist and a background scientist in front of a green screen. The practical camera will pull back from a close up the vial into a wide shot of the Scientists. Where the dolly stops, the CG camera will take over pulling back through the window into the exterior shot of the building.

Here are some critical choices that we need to make:

Speed of Dolly - Slow to give more tween resolution
Lens choice - Needs to be the same for practical and CG camera
Background slate - What is this going to be?

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This is a wide lens. We see too much floor. Would be very hard to composite a wide shot like this.


I like the shallow depth of field but this will make it tough to pull back the CG camera into a wide shot of the building unless we switch lenses when we make the transition from practical camera to CG camera.


This is better framing. We could pullback and sell the window from here. Would be easier to composite. Medium lens plays the background slightly out of focus and will allow us to achieve a wideshot of the building within a reasonable amount of distance.


Another example of a good set-up for the final shot. This background could be composited in this photo. Its a medium lens. We could pull back several feet and sell the notion that a window is realistically just behind camera for us to fly through. We would avoid seeing feet / floor.


I just think this shot is cool.