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Very French Revenge

For the film’s climax, 2-D plates and 3-D CGI mingle in a crane shot that reveals a Parisian cityscape behind some sand dunes that the Micmacs are trying to pass off as Morocco.

During post, select footage was scanned at 4K using an Arriscan at Digimage Cinema in Paris. Lefouest then did a preliminary timing of the scanned material. “Because I did the dailies for six months, I knew the images by heart,” he says. “With JeanPierre and Tetsuo, we knew exactly

where we were going, and we had the work print as a reference. After production wrapped, we did one more week of artistic research together, and then I worked for two weeks on my own, redoing the timing and also preparing my windows, knowing that Jean-Pierre would have certain

requests.” The DI, he notes, often involved isolating portions of the graded image with windows and refining them over time. Lefouest describes his work as similar to that of a cabinetmaker: “I sand, then varnish, then sand again, then varnish again, until it’s perfect.” (Ed. Note: The DI

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The International Journal of Motion Imaging - June 2010 Vol. 91 No. 6
Features
Slings and Arrows (Robin Hood)
Desert Storm (Prince of Persia)
Very French Revenge (Micmacs)
Painting Towns White (The White Stripes)
Departments
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Land and Bread
Production Slate: Winter’s Bone • Harry Brown
Post Focus: Enhancing Frozen
Tricks of the Trade: Using Red’s False Color
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads/Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: John Schwartzman
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