If there’s one factor the F1 film did effectively, it was the expansive use of know-how to deliver the viewer nearer than they’d ever been to a Method 1 race. It is no shock the film not too long ago received two Critics’ Selection Awards, one for modifying and one for sound. In a current video from Apple TV, it walks us by means of the ins and outs of how know-how was used.
“Method 1 historical past is crammed with tales like this. Groups that come out of nowhere and by some means discover a solution to innovate or pull off a miracle and win. It was a pleasant parallel to the filmmaking course of,” director Joseph Kosinski tells the digicam.
Doing one thing that had by no means been achieved earlier than, the manufacturing group constructed massive components of the film inside F1 weekends.
“This job’s fully distinctive,” Gareth John, manufacturing sound supervisor, mentioned. “I by no means thought I would discover myself making an attempt to document dialogue at a reside F1 observe, a reasonably hostile surroundings, actually, with all of the noise that is occurring and the radio frequencies from the vehicles, different movie crews.” To make it workable, the group leaned on motorsport-grade transmission {hardware}: “We’ve been utilizing Siemens RFs, Cobham video transmitters to transmit sound of the vehicles again to me.
“Electrical division, props, costume, all people. Everybody’s helped facilitate the sound seize on the challenge.”
Audio was a problem, however filming on custom-built vehicles that had been truly being pushed by actors Brad Pitt and Damson Idris offered an entire new world of limitations.
“On this movie we would have liked to position the recording unit someplace on a automobile that has no space for storing. I imply, there’s simply sufficient room for the driving force,” continued Kosinski.
Tiesto with the F1 film automobile
Picture by: Bryn Lennon / Method 1 through Getty Photographs
“Now we now have 16 completely different angles on the automobile. It is the primary time we have ever had a distant digicam that may flip and transfer,” producer Jerry Bruckheimer added.
The cameras had to have the ability to seize footage in 4K whereas concurrently beaming the info again to the receiver websites dotted across the circuit. To do that, the manufacturing group itself needed to construct not solely {custom} {hardware}, but in addition {custom} code to run all the things in tandem whereas with the ability to survive the surroundings of driving at race tempo on numerous completely different circuits.
“We wrote some software program and positive sufficient, we have been capable of discuss to the cameras, discuss to the lens management. Every little thing you see that is on the automobile within the RF, just about we have constructed and particularly to suit this automobile.”
With large box-office success and numerous award nominations, it appears as if the trade is rewarding an engineer-led manufacturing, and F1 is getting loads of consideration alongside it.
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