In the segment of Show Us Your Shot, Director Roderick E. Stevens and Cinematographer Daniel Gonzalez explored a few options for safely capturing the driving scenes in this road movie, including using a 70" LED TV as a background, before settling on green screen for compositing. This also freed Stevens up to manipulate the art direction and color grading further to create a contrast between the heightened, almost surreal first half against the familiar reality of the latter half.
Roderick Stevens’s Bio
With more than 25 years’ experience in the film industry as a writer, producer, director, and editor, and most notably as the director of photography on more than two dozen feature films and countless shorts, music videos, and commercials, Roderick Stevens has a thorough working knowledge of nearly every aspect of film production. He is also an award-winning fine artist, and renowned activist for safe working conditions in the film industry.
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I'm old enough to remember a magical machine called "The Ultimatte", a royal PIA. I really love the idea. What were you shooting on? How many hz was the scan of the flatscreen? Another benefit that I can imagine would be for the actors - feeling like they are actually live in a simulator. If you have the budget for a screen like that, I can agree, a tremendous unleashing of creativity. I enjoyed watching it.
Hey there Jaime!
Thanks bunches Jaime and pardon my delay in responding. Learning to Drive was shot on multiple formats including Super8 film, 35mm film and 4K Raw, the latter two through anamorphic glass. The majority of our driving footage was shot on 4K Raw with a Sony F55 with green screen and composited backgrounds. I considered using my 70" consumer LED TV as a background and shot the tests in the BTS video on HD with my 5D MkIII at 24p. I hope I've answered your question. :)