Disguise has revealed details of its involvement in new Christy Hall feature, Daddio.
The film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn and featured as an official selection at Toronto and Tribeca Film Festival, used Disguise’s virtual production workflows to create an immersive environment in which the cast could perform.
Addy Ghani, VP of virtual production at Disguise, worked with the director and 4Wall Entertainment VPs of special projects, Ben Danielowski and Matthew Leland to capture the film, which is set inside a New York cab. The team initially mapped the cab’s route on Google Street View before working with Plate Pros to film in the real world. Two hours of 4K car process plates were captured in a single night of shooting.
Production was moved to 4Wall’s 2.5 mm pixel pitch, 50′ LED stage where the car process plates were reprojected and played back onto the LED Volume, using Disguise’s GX3 media servers. A real taxi cab was cut in half, enabling cameras to be placed in front of Johnson.
Commenting on the production, director Hall said: “I was excited to use the technology. It created an immersive environment for the cast, so when Sean was driving, he kept almost being afraid he was going to hit things. And then Dakota looks out the window and cars are whizzing by. She could actually see the street and everything, so they’re engaging with a real sense of time and place.”
“Using Disguise gave us the entire canvas,” added Leland. “It allows us to map however we want, whether we want perspective, sizing, we can really kind of change what’s being reprojected onto those screens.”
