November 22, 2017 – 8:33 pm
The visual backbone of U2’s anniversary Joshua Tree Tour 2018/19 was supposed to be a narrative of films, one for each song, with a strong political comment to the discussions of the american border wall. For a week, we travelled northern california, to capture vistas and elements of the iconic locations that had been immortalised by the band and Anton Corbijn for the Joshua Tree album; Zabriskie Point, Joshua Tree, etc.
The stage design on the Tour was simple but massive; The band, set against a 200ft wide background LED screen with more than 7K resolution and a custom widescreen ratio of 1:4,5. That was our canvas, an intimidating degree of clarity and exposure to every detail in the frame.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Producer: Saul Germaine / Serial Pictures
Arri Alexa65
November 22, 2017 – 8:19 pm
Director: Gilles Paquat-Brenner
Shot on location in and around London
Alexa Mini, Hawk Anamorphics and custom LUT
November 22, 2017 – 8:24 pm
Even though this looks pretty straight forward, it was a wonderfully crazy challenge, since the delivery was 6K HDR and early on it was decided to shoot all the sky plates and comp them in, as opposed to creating CG background mattes from concept artwork. We had to go deep into the Atamcama desert at night, one of the darkest places on earth, far from any light contamination of the bigger cities, and still shoot long exposures. But in return, the starry night skies were gorgeous. Even to the naked eye, everything was visible, the depth of space was just incredible and something you never see, living in a normal large city.
Director: Ben Tricklebank / Smuggler
November 22, 2017 – 8:28 pm
Directors: US / Academy Films
