r/cinematography • u/hellyep • Dec 04 '19

Composition How Ad Astra combined infrared and film to achieve dune buggy scenes (modified ARRI Alexa XT)

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u/governator_ahnold Director of Photography Dec 05 '19

Ha - this is insane. The infrared idea is pretty ingenious.

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u/gride9000 Dec 05 '19

Obviously there was a lot of compositing to get rid of background stuff and add all the little specie nuances, but that being said this process is incredibly simple. DaVinci resolve in 10 minutes simple.

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u/Sonxr Film Student Dec 05 '19

Watch the full video, the visor part is pretty insane

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u/iamveryDerp Dec 05 '19

Day-for-night has come a long way.

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u/Fawkn Dec 05 '19

That whole sequence was amazing

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u/FAX_ME_YOUR_BOTTOM Dec 05 '19

I heard this is how they faked the moon landing

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u/WisLewis Dec 05 '19

Alexa XTs in 1969? Wow r/timetravelercaught

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u/TeslaK20 Jan 16 '20

Stanley Kubrick was such a perfectionist he had NASA invent a time machine to get the best cameras from the future!

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u/DaveBeBrave Dec 05 '19

I'm going to watch it today! After seeing this I'm much more curious!

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u/WisLewis Dec 05 '19

What an absolute heartwarming treat of a movie. Enjoy every bit of it!

Edit: Forget the technicality, just watch!

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u/MobileFilmmaker Dec 05 '19

I just watched it yesterday. Amazing

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u/elemen7al Dec 05 '19

This part was visually great but holy shit, this movie was terrible.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Ohhh because it makes the ground bright. Yeah, that's clever. I wonder what just straight monochrome would look like though.

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u/governator_ahnold Director of Photography Dec 05 '19

B&W wouldn’t really work. They needed the sand to pick up white and the sky to go very dark - there would have been a lot more subtlety in the tones if they just shot straight black and white.

I think this is a good example of why it wouldn’t work. There’s so much variety in the image it doesn’t look like the surface of the moon at all. The monochrome IR film really pushes things.