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King of the Monsters

Bounces and
soft overhead
sources
illuminate
greenscreen
setups as the
production
team captures
elements.

also the way people looked as they were
stuck in the midst of chaos and just
stultified by an inconceivable event,"
says McGarvey. "That suggested a
somewhat monochromatic look for the
picture, with flashes of color punctuating the action."
Godzilla features a sequence in
which an elite special-ops team para48

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chutes into San Francisco as the
monster wreaks havoc in the city. After
jumping from their aircraft in highaltitude low-open mode, the team
ignites bright crimson signal flares that
simultaneously track their descent
through the cloud cover and leave
streaks of red smoke. "The HALO
jump seems complex, but it was actually
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the easiest scene to work out in previs,"
says Edwards. "During prep, I
happened to be walking around the
city at night listening to music, and my
iPhone skipped to a György Ligeti
track from 2001: A Space Odyssey ['Lux
Aeterna'], and this image just popped
into my head of angels descending into
hell. The storyboarding was simple.
We approved the previs after the
second pass and it was ready to shoot.
"A few shots were done against
greenscreen, but it's primarily footage
from the aerial team, so the ground had
to be replaced in post with a burning,
wrecked San Francisco," the director
continues. "The lighting was difficult
to get right because, obviously, we
could not control that. There was just
this five-minute window that gave us
the natural lighting we wanted - too
soon and it was too much like daylight,
too late and it was too dark. We did a
number of test jumps, which is an
expensive proposition, and Seamus
reviewed the footage and the camera
settings before going for it."
"The HALO jump is largely



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