“Magnopus details its particular virtual production approaches on Fallout, which included capturing the LED wall scenes on 35mm film. An excerpt from the print mag.
The Prime Video post-apocalyptic series Fallout was shot on 35mm film with anamorphic lenses.
While that’s a format not unfamiliar at all to the show’s executive producers Jonathan (Jonah) Nolan and Lisa Joy–who took the same approach on Westworld–it is a format not all that common for an episodic project that also relied heavily on shooting in an LED volume.
Getting there required close collaboration with Magnopus, a studio that had been part of previous Westworld R&D efforts and some filming (on film) in an LED volume for that series’ fourth season.
“That season four of Westworld was where the evolution of this tech, integrated into storytelling, really began,” advises AJ Sciutto, director of virtual production at Magnopus.
Sciutto oversaw the effort at Magnopus to deliver and collaborate on several virtual production services for Fallout, including the virtual art department, LED volume operations and in-camera VFX (ICVFX). Fallout’s visual effects supervisor was Jay Worth and visual effects producer was Andrea Knoll. The show’s virtual production supervisors were Kathryn Brillhart and Kalan Ray, who oversaw four episodes of the series each. Magnopus ran stage operations for the first four episodes, with All of it Now handling the second lot of four episodes. More on how the film side of the production came into play below, but first the process began with the building of an LED volume in New York, where the series would be shooting.” Continue reading…
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Befores and Afters: https://beforesandafters.com/2024/10/09/shooting-on-an-led-volumeon-film/
