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Frank, Casey, Athena (Raffey Cassidy) and scientist David Nix (Hugh Laurie) enter the monitor
room that hovers above Bridgeway Plaza.
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[network processing units], and the
media servers and console were
controlled by [Alexander and lightingconsole programmer Benoit Richard]."
Practical interactive lighting
effects were hardly limited to the tower.
For example, Bird felt the futuristic ray
guns used in a number of important
sequences should emit a uniquely
organic and believable light. "I asked
Claudio, 'Why, when people use
weapons like ray guns in a visual-effects
movie, do the light and shadows not
appear on people and around the
room?'" Bird relates. "They always seem
to paint it in later in post, and it doesn't
really look like light moving through a
room. So I asked him about it, and
Claudio and his team promptly developed light arrays so that the light would
move through the set."
The solution involved 24
Chroma-Q Color Force LED strips
configured on 6' trusses that could be
positioned above or beside the set; the
trusses could be connected to extend the
chase, depending on how far the person
firing the gun was from the target. "We
could create a big flash that began when
the actor pulled the trigger, but
controlled at the GrandMa2 lighting
console, giving us lighting effects in a
long line," Tickell explains. "Visual
effects could then [embellish the effect]
later as needed."
"It's nice that we have LEDs for
this kind of lighting interaction,"
Miranda adds. "I didn't want to just slap
a color onto the light coming out of the
guns - we wanted the light to start full
white and then decay into a little blur of
color. One character fires a ray gun and
it ends up being a cyan color, and the
next one fires and it's more of an amber.
LED gave us a flexible way to do that
without having to re-gel the whole [rig]
or trying to control it in post."
Tickell notes that the production
worked with Canadian company
Unlimited Design Ltd. to incorporate
LED technology into the prop ray guns,
and to configure the guns' triggers to
wirelessly cue the lighting console to set
off the choreographed LED strips - all
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