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cially was put off by what he referred to as digital’s feeling of ‘reportage.’ Also, the first two films in this series were shot on film, and we wanted the three to feel like they belonged together.” The team decided to shoot Super 35mm for a final aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and post-convert the picture at Imageworks and Prime Focus under the supervision of Corey Turner, Imageworks’ 3-D visual-effects supervisor. Arri CSC provided the camera package for the New York-based production, supplying Arricam Studios and Lites and Arri/Zeiss Master Prime lenses. Under the guidance of visualeffects supervisors Ken Ralston and Jay Redd, Imageworks also handled most of the movie’s visual effects, tackling such sequences as a ray-gun battle in a Chinese restaurant, Agent J’s time-traveling jump off the Chrysler Building, a monocycle chase through Brooklyn, and the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Excluding the stereoscopic-conversion work, Imageworks was responsible for roughly 700 effects shots. An additional 500 shots, ranging from background display graphics to all-CG characters, were handled by other facilities. Ralston and Redd spent nearly every day of production on set. For key visual-effects setups, additional Imageworks artists were on hand to record camera positions and lens data, as well as capture lighting information with an HDR Spheron, a wide-angle turret camera that measures real-world luminosity values from the darkest shadow areas to the brightest sunlight with a single 360-degree scan. The production was large enough to require two full-time gaffers — Bob Finley was joined by Bill O’Leary for the first half of production, and by Eric Boncher for the second — and an army of grips, led by key grips Mitch Lillian and Tony Mazzucchi. “Bobby, Bill and Eric were each assigned certain sets so they could really dig in,” says Pope. “We had three standing sets at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, and we had as many as seven or eight sets up at the
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Top: Agents K and J prepare for battle in Wu’s Chinese restaurant. Middle and bottom: To give themselves maximum flexibility for filming the nighttime action sequence, the filmmakers built Wu’s interior and exterior and a portion of the street onstage at Kaufman-Astoria Studios.
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