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best friend. Two years later, out of prison
and hungry for revenge, Marshall lands a
spot in a super-secret, winner-takes-all
race against Brewster. To get to the race,
he must get across the country in 45
hours. Brewster doesn't make it easy,
however: he places a high bounty on
Marshall's head.
"We did a slew of camera tests for
this movie because we wanted to make
sure to find the tools that would best tell
the story," attests Hurlbut. "It was a fiveday test involving interiors, day exteriors,
night exteriors, night driving and a trip to
Willow Springs International Raceway,
where we took the cameras up to 180
mph to see how they held up. We put
nine cameras to the test: Red Epic, Sony
F65 and F55, the Black Magic Digital
Cinema Camera, Canon EOS 1DC and
C500, GoPro Hero3, Arri Alexa and an
Arri 435. We put them all through their
paces, including racing around the track
at full speed to look at rolling shutter and
the stresses of that kind of speed. We
assembled all the test footage and then
went to Technicolor, where we worked
with [colorist] Mike Sowa to create the
look we had in mind for the final.
"Scott and I sat in the screening
room and watched all the footage, with

Opposite: Street
racer and car
mechanic Tobey
Marshall (Aaron
Paul) uses his
skills to gain glory
and then revenge
in Need for Speed.
This page, top:
Marshall teams up
with Julia (Imogen
Poots), a wealthy
businessman's
assistant, for a
grueling crosscountry journey.
Middle: Marshall
has a heated faceto-face with Dino
Brewster (Dominic
Cooper), a
hometown rival
and the man
responsible for
putting Marshall
in prison. Bottom:
Cinematographer
Shane Hurlbut,
ASC on set.

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