EXCLUSIVE: As some light begins to be seen as the end of the coronavirus lockdown tunnel (fingers firmly crossed), the industry is channeling its efforts into planning for a post-virus world. Wheth…
lockdown tunnel , the industry is channeling its efforts into planning for a post-virus world. Whether it’s isolating cast and crew, on-set temperature tests, social distanced shoots, or increased hygiene measures, the reality is production isn’t going to return to normal for a long time.
Speaking to Deadline, Rebellion’s Ben Smith and Brian Mitchell say the company is looking to harness ‘virtual production’, which combines its gaming and filmmaking expertise, to kickstart its own in-house productions as soon as this week, adding that it has the capacity to open the process up to outside producers looking to shoot post-lockdown.
“Virtual production could be a way to get the ball rolling on shoots in the near future,” says Ben Smith, Rebellion’s head of film, TV and publishing. “You’re controlling your environment, if you want to shoot a sunset, you can do that whenever. You can go to multiple locations within the same day and turn things around so quickly, if offers so much more flexibility. It feels like it will solve a lot of problems.
“This is the cutting edge of where things are moving,” says Brian Mitchell, Head of Rebellion Film Studios and MD of Audiomotion. “We were already improving the virtual production pipeline over the winter. We are seeing where we can take it next.” “Across our video games we have built a lot of Western Europe as 3D environments,” explains Smith. “We have virtual backlots that encompass Berlin, France, the Italian riviera, and North Africa. You couldn’t instantly import them [into a new shoot] but we’re a long way down the road towards being able to do that.”, for which it generated extensive environments representing Italy during the Second World War.
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