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Through real-time compositing live on set, director of photography David Stump, ASC puts a virtual spin on Red Riding Hood. In an interview, Stump talks about his experiences with data-encoding technology and filming the movie.
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Into the Virtual Woods
When director Randal Kleiser paid a visit to his college roommate, George Lucas, on the set of Star Wars - Episode II, he watched actors performing against bluescreen on an otherwise empty stage, and later viewed them as composites in a virtual, computer-generated (CG) environment. Kleiser wondered if such a process could be employed live on stage with realtime, on-set compositing serving as a visual reference for the cast and crew. He had long been developing a musical version of Red Riding Hood, and he decided to use it as a "proof of concept" project.
Kleiser brought Brian Prankish aboard to produce this tongue-in-cheek retelling of the classic children's fable, which stars Morgan Thompson as Red, Lainie Kazan as Grandma, and Joey Fatone as a big, bad, shape-shifting werewolf with an insatiable appetite. TAG Entertainment financed the picture for about $2.75 million - a very low figure for a project that would rely on new technologies in an unproven process.Prankish knew exactly who could navigate this uncharted digital territory: David Stump, ASC. However, this wasn't exactly an adventure into the unknown for the visual-effects specialist, who has worked on such projects as Deep Blue Sea, X-Men, Hollow Man, The One, Ftightplan and...See the full content of this document
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