Pre-Visualization

Making a movie requires a lot of planning (duh), but certain types of scenes require more than others.  For example, a scene where two characters sit and talk isn't all the complicated.  For something that will require visual effects or very specific editing, it's better to figure out the blocking for the actors and cameras ahead of time.  Case in point - a fight scene.  

A frame from a not-so-well-planned-out fight scene.  Notice her face, which seems to say, "Gee, I sure do wish we had pre-visualized this scene in some sort of virtual environment that we could then refer to on set!"

There's a confrontation at the end of Hookman: Redemption that is slated to be shot one week from today.  Rather than waiting until we're on set to figure stuff out, we assembled a crack team of pre-visualization artists and utilized state-of-the-art techniques to figure out just how we're going to film that scene.  Below is posted the final edit of the pre-visualized fight scene, with lifelike analogs of the major characters.

Warning: This video contains mild spoilers that will not necessarily give away the end of the movie, but may ruin some small surprises (if you aren't privy to the shooting script or haven't read it yet (Robbie)).