This thing sounds like a demon stepping on a Lego, mixed with the highest-pitched scream you’ve ever heard. It weighs just 640 kg (1400 lbs) but packs a V8 engine producing 750HP at a max RPM of 18,000. We were shooting with the Red Bull Racing RB7, the world constructor and driver's championship-winning car from 2011. They are incredibly complex machines with many specific requirements and procedures. However, shooting with one of these cars isn't straightforward. We engineered everything around capturing the speed of an F1 car. The most important thing was to showcase the true performance of these cars by shooting practically - no camera or post tricks. How do you maximize what you're able to get in the field? It's here that our problem-solving began.įilm grab from the RED Monstro as Parks Bonifay avoids the gator, all captured practically Credit: Location Problems and Finding Efficiencies I t’s like working with a child actor, unpredictable and on a short timeline. To make things even more challenging, shooting time with the F1 car was extremely limited. In particular, running a solid visual paper edit allowed us the flexibility to efficiently use our resources on things that would make the final cut. Having a solid basis of story and concepts ahead of time allowed us to react. Like most productions, variables changed daily. Sorting out some of the more specific shots, including the opening Manhattan helicopter scene, the Everglades alligator scene, and the miscommunication's payoff at the end, required having detailed storyboards and ideas ahead of time. At this point, much of our thinking was around dreaming up the most absurd comparisons possible between a clinical race track environment and the city streets of our two primary locations. Our team worked traditionally with storyboards during pre-production and referenced classic American films. We knew we wanted to juxtapose high-action sequences with more approachable and awkward situations you'd find on the road while featuring our F1 car as the constant throughout.
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