Chapter 8On Set

DOI: 10.4324/9781003289371-12

All the writing and re-writing, planning, budgeting, scouting, designing, building, casting, rehearsing—all these months (or even years) of pre-production work culminate in the shooting period. The long preparations for the Everest expedition are complete; it’s time for the actual climb—and it will likely be a condensed, exhilarating, adrenaline-charged experience, not without bumps and obstacles, of course, but hopefully a successful journey from which a movie will be born.

From the VFX standpoint, the complexity and price of the work are determined, to a great extent, by the way the shots are captured on set and the attention they receive. Proper planning during pre-production, as discussed in ...

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