How Did They Film This 

that last nolan in-cam trick is worth gold mines

That shaking background effect is amazing!

Oh these are great overviews! Too often I feel like people do breakdowns that don't add much, but I like how you give detail about the effect the DP's choices have! I especially liked when you mentioned exposing night scenes more to print down (and thus get cleaner shadows). Apparently, between discussions and AC articles, rating high speed stock 2/3 to 1 stop slower is rather common. Andrew Lesnie (rip) did it and Cameron has apparently done it on a number of his films (I believe between his DPs).

You should make a “how they filmed” video series

I know nothing about directing. This gives me a whole new respect.

This is one of the times RU-vid algorithms read my mind, I think. I have to say I don’t understand 2/3 of what you’re talking about when it comes to the equipment so I’ve taken 4-5 times the length of the video looking up stuff. Did I need to know any of this? Will I ever do any of this? No. I’m a Navy flight test engineer so I’ll never need any of the skills. But the next movie I watch I’ll have enough to be able to appreciate what the artists have done visually and technically. Thanks for helping me learn something new every day! Cheeers!

This is good stuff, man!! I’m not a lighting rig guy or a film guy and yet this is really well done and engaging for a passerby such as myself. Subbed a few videos back, glad I found ya, keep it up!! Shit, and thanks!

please make this a series!! i love behind the scenes content, and your explanations on all these are amazing also i didnt personally like oppenheimer, but that last in cam effect is so simple and powerful, its great

Very cool video! Thank you for putting this together - keep up the great work

Fascinating and informative. Thank you.

Love this behind the scenes technical stuff. Thanks!

New subscriber here! I am loving your videos Jimmy. They are sooooo good. The value you are providing to your viewers are immense. Keep going!

Great stuff! Always love these “secrets revealed” videos!

Fantastic content and production. Have always been fascinated with these behind-the-scenes techniques and am glad I came upon your channel - subscribed

Thanks for all those infos, very interesting videos...keep up the great work Jimmy

New fav channel right here! keep going yo

Love the way you dissect shots and try to break down the out how and why. I think the same way, so it’s nice to find somebody like myself. It’s good work! Thank you!

Man this video really is top tier ! I need 10 of them to binge watch !

Thanks for that overview😊 I own an OG for some days now and try to learn everything about that camera. There is always something new I haven‘t recognised yet. Love your style! Thanks a lot!

Brilliant sir. Thank you so much!

Good stuff my man! Really interesting and informative breakdowns. As a photographer I find it Interesting to see how the big pro's do lighting setups for film. And yes - you should do a series on this.

love your channel, man you can never learn enough. Great camera hack at the end....

This is the coolest video on RU-vid regarding cinematography I have ever seen!. I learned so much in under 10 minutes.

your videos are always so informative

We need more of these series! Awesome content 👍🏻

This is amazing work, thanks for the research and informative video

Cool video. The Nolan shaking effect was really cool!

I love learning how scenes are lit and then shot.

Amazing video, very easy and pleasant to watch and absorb the knowledge

this was surprisingly interesting bro! good job!

Very nice work dude!

The resuscitation of interest in motion film is amazing :)

Excellent analysis!

very cool insight, so much to study from behind the scene alone

First timer in your world--very nice work, Jimmy! You, too, jam enough information to make me go back and listen/watch/read (I'm on the deaf side)! I've always been a sponge for new information. Now that I have taken my old pro-self jacket and tie off, let my hair grow, and let my inner hippie out, life is smoother. Or, at least, if things don't work out, it's my bad. Gosh, how I hated watching a job fail, know why but everyone else was busy covering their butts rather than keeping their eyes on the prize. High five and belly bumps! I loved training! It's amazing what you can do when you teach people to fish, huh?

Excellent video !

I would totally watch a deep dive video per film! What an awesome analysis

Very interesting stuff!

Amazing content please upload more often your videos are top notch

This video gave me more respect for directors, actors and the people who run the lights. The amount of logistics and angels you have to work with to make this work is amazing, and acting with all those lights in your face must be hard. Brad was Driving almost blind lmao

WELL DONE!!! I hope the guys in L.A. are watching!

Thank you for this vids

Great insights!

wow, projecting image like Nolan , that's cool. Thank you.

I'm a photographer and love to be inspired by movies and how they were made. I'm a strong believer in interdisciplinary observations! Thanks for a great and very informative video 👏🏻

good stuff my dude

Very educative

Fun video! More please!

That projector trick is pretty neat!!

Make this a series!!

Pazzesco sto video 🤩

Nolan's in-cam work reminds me of photographs by the late Brian Griffin, the one who made the first four Depeche Mode cover photos. His work was insane. Dig out his work like the b&w photo of King Sunny Ade which are just three exposures of tungsten light, one with knicker elastic being pulled towards the camera and vibrated. Another of my favourite was the cover of Psychedelic Furs album where he took different exposures on the same frame using a lattice of squares and moving them one unit of length for the next shot.

It’s crazy how many lights you need to make it look like nighttime

Great vid, pls consider making this a series.

1:29 WHAT!? this set is mindblowing

I had pretty much taken for granted that everything was digitally recorded then processed "in post" these days, but I'm no expert as to movie making. Looks like using film is a damned expensive methodology, but it does look pretty great!

background shake fx is a well known trick used in theaters, street festivals and raves. basically it is mapping. theres a whole art form around it which is decades old. check it out if never new. e.g. Harry Potter and a Cursed Child stage production on Broadway uses this a lot.

Watching your video got me buzzing about straight visual effects, as Henry mentioned in his comment, about how Chris Nolan chooses physical effects over CGI. It reminded me of all the great visual effects in the early years of film. Buster Keaton's work in the silent era was blocked from distribution, I believe until the late 1970s. A couple of generations never saw what made his work so great. "Safety Last" was one of, if not the best work he did. I offer this link which is a "behind the curtains" view of how some of his most iconic works were developed and filmed. This one in particular has always been terrifying to me. I was duped like audiences a hundred years earlier: we all assumed, as Keeton normally did, that all of this was indeed filmed twelve stories up and Keeton was doing the high work without safety harnesses, which I assumed was another layer of the gag. I'd feel let down to find out that he wasn't working as high as I believed if it wasn't for fooling me the way he and his crew pulled the wool over so many eyes. I think everyone will enjoy this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZifbxtLXy1I.htmlsi=3HlkflSkzikzqq2F

I have no idea why the algorithm suggested this, but wow, this was fascinating. Great work, and thanks for going into such detail. There is a zero percent chance I ever use it, but it's cool to know how these things are done anyway.

0:25 "arguably one of MY favorite movies ever". Who are you arguing with? Yourself?? Lol

Wow! You really know what you are talking about!

Hi Jimmy. As a fellow g&e, this video is awesome!

Big thing i notice with the diffused lighting inside cars especially is that it always makes the actors seem to be driving in front of a green screen. with the LED volume lighting it looks much more natural as if shot at location even if done indoors

8:43 This is the happiest I've ever seen someone for being wrong 😂😂😂

The 200 stock with Panavision and Zeiss primes was immaculate.

Big Fan from Pakistan ❤

Thank the film gods they're still shooting and releasing behind the scenes footage. Will be forever grateful until they day they stop.

8:44 This made me subscribe w/notifications lol

Thumbs up for thr bossa nova at the beginning. I learned a lot here, you should make it a series

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This explanation of the lighting of the scene from The Killing was most interesting than the complete movie itself...

That’s my problem too when buying a new film; first look at the behind the scenes and after that the movie. Sometimes a view the movie another time. 😊

very nice video :) Keep it up!

I love how dark those night time LA shots were of him riding with Bob Seger on the radio. When I think of that era I think about all the 60s home movies I've seen and how dark they were because of cheap stock and/or people weren't too educated on lighting while filming.

I only watched “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” for the first time a couple years ago, and it quickly became a favourite of mine. I was a pre-teen in ‘69 and it was gratifying to see Manson and his sick puppies get their comeuppance in this alternate version of reality.

dude, very interesting ..gotta sub ;)

great video! Love these bts style vids

2:58 ah yes the signature Quentin Tarantino shot

..... "but I was wrong" - epic touch!

Nice

I saw that cut at 1:44 nice 😎

Regarding the Oppenheimer "shake"; Not only do I love it when I see an extremely labor-intensive effect done practically when it could be done with a couple clicks of the mouse, but I love it EVEN MORE when I see an effect so subtle I dismiss it as some three-click-of-the-mouse-CGI, and later find out it was done practically at way more expense, (whether it be $$ ,time, labor, etc.).

I’d love to see u talking bout Mann’s Ferrari driving scenes

Speaking of Fincher, the Nolan shot also reminds me of the similar shot from Fight Club that was a combination of camera and visual effect.

Loving these breakdowns and looks into how the «grownups» do it :) Lots to learn and apply on a smaller scale to upgrade ones quality step by step :) The day I discovered and *understood* why I never could seem to get the quality I wanted from the gear I had, and saw how «simple» the solution was (in theory at least, lifetime to master and all that) I just wished I had learned it 30 years ago ;) Hopefully videos like this will help new (and old) potential filmmakers to understand more faster than I did ;) Two thumbs up and a sub indeed, now back to making my own videos on making a DIY RU-vid Setup from scratch with DIY light domes from cardboard, aluminum foil and parchment paper to get that «grownup» look ;)

I HAVE BEEN DYING TO KNOW HOW NOLAN MADE THIS SHOT!! Definitely using it in my next project! THANKS!

I woulnd't mind if this where to become a series

"But I was wrong." Awesome how well it worked without specialist equipment!

How did the background projection not fall on Cillian's face? Was it projected from an elevated angle?

I love stuff like this which is why it's too bad DVD has gone the way of the dinosaurs. I miss physical media. I think the last great hurrah for behind-the-scenes footage was with Peter Jackson's extended trilogy box set. After that, I can't remember all that many films that went out of their way to document things the way he did. Not unless it was some short behind-the-scenes thing done as a promo. Actually, Disney+ has some behind-the-scenes stuff but then that's more about having content. If you watch their BtS material it's nowhere near as in-depth as that stuff or even videos like yours. Also, thanks for showing the highway lighting rigs. I've always wondered how they did lighting for big scenes like that. Imagine renting all those period-accurate cars just for most of them to be flash and they're gone appearances lol.

NICE MUSIC

8:20 I think you should have taken the picture of the background from the exact position you were planning to have the projector later. And obviously you should use a projector that has optical lens shift that allows the image to be projected straight forward (making it reverse of your camera). For best results, you should have the optical plane of the camera at the same position your projector panel or DLP chip is in the final projection. Great video and you explained the techniques really well!

Ha! 8:44 So devious.

3:46 wtf 😂

Jimmy where can we see your portfolio, just wondering

Thanks,Where do you find the behind the scenes videos? Anybody have a good source?

Not that I could gain access, but how are you able to see and study behind the scenes of movies?

8:00 shaking was on the projector itself (unclear)

Where can I find behind the scenes where they explain how they film stuff?

I didn't know how complex their lighting sets are.