![]() It’s a terrifically complex challenge for both departments, but one which has produced an astonishing result and is complimented by a specially composed track by NFTS C omposingstudent, Fabio Amurri. “The end result,” says Lee, “is that the audience assumes everything they see in the film is real and was shot at the same time. Helder Tomas taught students on the set about photogrammetry, while VFX photographer Aviv Yaron also guided students in on-set VFX tasks including shooting accurate lens grids, HDRIs, miniature greenscreen motion control and camera tracking passes. Richard showed how one move we originally planned would have taken out a side of the miniature! We learnt a lot about the intricacy of depth of field considerations on a 14mm master prime, shooting a 1/6 scale miniature, with Richard’s help too.” “With Richard’s expert input,” adds Murphy, “we could simulate possible moves of the real rig using a digital volume equivalent of it, complete with camera and lens. CG camera motion is much different to the very elegant, almost imperceptible motion created with a physical 1960s era Super Panavision-70 camera! We worked closely with the brilliant Richard Widgery from Take4D, who came in to the design process bringing in his own tools, to show us at least what the weight and physicality of the Milo rig would do when you program it to move. The problem is that because a digital camera can be moved any which way in the software we use, we get carried away. “Making a very slow, intricate camera move to answer the brief proved tricky. “The students worked through a number of iterations at an early tech visualisation stage,” explains Ian Murphy. Simultaneously, the VFX students crafted their digital rendition of the bedroom set, also building a special CG EVA pod to be composited into the final sequence. “When you’re creating a course like this, that’s the icing on the cake for students and staff.” ![]() “Stuart was a clapper/loader on the original film and recounted stories about his time shooting the actual sequence back in 1965,” advises Lee. In a special surprise to students, NFTS co-head of Cinematography Stuart Harris was invited to the set. ![]() We re-created the lighting with the help of NFTS Cinematography student Rob O’Kelly, and shot a Motion Control sequence with our friends at Mark Roberts Motion Control.” “The whole set is under-lit with one light source, so it really does replicate the film well. The final practical model took six weeks to build, with Lee commenting that the bigger challenges were the fine details such as cornice work, dado rail, skirtings, panel details and the Louis 16th furniture. Lee adds that the aim was for the model to replicate the real set as closely as possible. Piers is the author of ‘ 2001 – Filming the Future’, one of the most authoritative books about the making of 2001.” Legendary model maker Simon Atkinson, who along with his friend and author Piers Bizony were able to share some hi-resolution images from the shooting of the actual film, which significantly helped with scaling some of the detail in the set. This year, we moved over to Zoom for all our research, so I’m grateful for the research staff at the archive who gave my students an overview of just how significant 2001 was, and still is. “To kick things off,” details Lee, “we started at The Kubrick Archive in London, who over the last few years have kindly given access to my students to carry out research on various Kubrick films. Bravo!" - Stanley Kubrick's daughter Katharina, on seeing the students' set build
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