All language subtitles for 25-AirstripShootConcept.mp4

What we're going to be talking about
today.

Obviously, we're going to do a little
bit of an introduction with the concepts.

We are going to break down mood boards.

We're going to talk about the actors.

We're going to talk about the wardrobe,
the hair and makeup and all of those

little decisions that go into this
process.

Remember,

this is a pretty involved process.

The pre production portion is really
important.

And so we're going to go into a bit of
depth on what that looked like and how

we found a lot of the things that we
were looking for.

So,

more or less, more or less, this, once
we come back from the chute, we are

going to

end up editing the images.

We are going to develop the images, do
some retouching

and do some color grading, just
basically bring it in that final level

of polish, making everything kind of
match

and feel nice and beautifully
cinematic.

So that's the agenda for this
particular section.

So

without delay, let's go ahead and

start looking at concept

one.

And this is, we called this the
airfield.

when I was looking to put this
particular image together, we were

scouting locations,

and we were looking to see what our
options were

a timeless things, vintage things,
historical things.

What the options were, we came across
this particular location, and it's

amazing, beautiful collection of
planes.

It's called the historic flight
foundation it's here in Seattle, a

little bit outside the city, and they
have this really, really, really

amazing collection of beautifully
restored airplanes.

And so we got permission to be able to

use them and shoot there.

And that was amazing.

But the approach that I wanted to take
when it came to shooting with these

planes, I didn't want it necessarily to
be 100 percent right on the nose with

the subject matter.

I didn't want it to just be a straight
interpretation of the scene.

And so I started doing a lot of
research and homework on historical

photographs of World War ii, and
looking for something that had a little

bit of an interesting pull to the
story, something that just shaped

what life was like then in a slightly
different, more nuanced way.

And this photo I had seen before that I
absolutely love

it, is, I believe

I've looked and looked for the

black and white version of this, but I
believe this is a colorized photograph.

I'm not 100 percent.

Everything that I found kind of points
to that.

And it does look colorized,

hand colored, but

I was never able to find the black and
white photograph anywhere.

But this is

an r afgyail air force pilot getting a
haircut

between mission breaks.

And this is from 1942.

And I loved this photograph because it
just was not

the obvious story that was necessarily
being told and photographed at that

time.

And it just felt like this really
beautiful

break, this very quiet moment in what
was not

that moment in the world.

And it's incredibly calm, and it's very
peaceful.

And if the plane was in the background,
you'd have an entirely different

context and meaning for the photograph.

And this pilot's name was Francis

mellersch, I don't know if I'm
pronouncing that correctly.

And he was twice awarded britain's
distinguished flying cross, and he was

recommended Victoria cross.

He lived many, many years.

He made it through the war,

and continued to be a pilot throughout
throughout his life,

reading an article about this, and said
his daughter had said that the pipe was

what eventually

got to him in the long run.

But it's really just this

beautifully kind of soft nuance
photograph.

And I love all the elements to it.

I love it's

the barber.

I love the book, interestingly enough.

The book is

actually

it's a pop culture novel.

It's basically a spy novel, but it set
during World War I.

And it's a guy in World War ii reading
it, which I thought was kind of kind of fascinating.

So yeah, I mean, he's an interesting
guy.

He ended up staying as a pilot in the
rif for another thirty years, and he flew,

he flew his whole life.

And I sort of such a cool photograph.

And I wanted to use this as my heavy
inspiration,

and I wanted to recreate it.

So it was a vertical.

I ended up kind of extending it and
drawing it out.

And we're going to turn it into a
little bit more of a horizontal, and

that's kind of the first

set that we are going to be making.

The second shot that I was planning on
was something that was a little bit

more traditional.

It reminded me of like these posters
and drawings that my dad was in the air

force gave to me when I was a kid.

And I wanted to do something that felt
like those old drawing illustrations

from the period.

And so this was kind of a Hodge podge
collage of different source material.

I'd kind of put it together in
Photoshop, and I'd trace over it and

draw on it.

And so I wanted to create a staggering
of the planes to create a little bit of

depth.

And I wanted to have a foreground scene
happening, some stuff happening in the background.

And so we're eventually going to take
you through what this process was like.

This is definitely the more complicated
of the two, logistically.

And this was the one that we planned for

first, even though it wasn't the first
one we shot.

So we had to make a lot of decisions
about how things are going to be laid

out and positioned over the day for
this, to save us a lot of time.

And we'll speak to that a little bit

later.

So those are my two source images.

We ended up getting one more third

rounder shots that were unplanned
because we knew that these were going

to be pretty complicated, especially
this one to pull off, which happened to

have a little bit more time, and we'll
show you that a little bit later as well.