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Avengers Re-Assemble
Thor, Iron Man and Captain America confront Ultron and the super-powered siblings Scarlet Witch
(Elizabeth Olsen) and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
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Principal photography was
preceded by a second-unit sequence
shot in Johannesburg in February, in
which Iron Man, clad in his giant
"Hulkbuster" armor, tries to stop a
rampaging Hulk. Whedon and Davis
were on hand for the first five days to
help establish a basic style before leaving
it to second-unit director John Mahaffie
and cinematographer John Gamble.
Davis notes, "I didn't want to make too
big a statement of it, but the African
scenes have a hotter, sunnier look that
reflects what was there when we shot, as
well as what the story called for."
The second unit captured
onlookers' reactions, as well as the
destruction of vehicles and other collateral damage. "My theory is: get as much
of it [for] real as you can," Davis says. "If
a fruit market's being destroyed, try to
get that in-camera, then add the visualeffects elements to it."
The Third Floor, which provided
services that included previsualization
for the main battle scenes, offered a
solution for the Hulkbuster sequence
using Ncam technology, whereby a
rough image of the animated characters
was piped into the viewfinder and
monitors and could be seen in the environment. "The [camera operator] could
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