You need to see the reverse shot to get any perspective of which jumper is which character not to mention some actual color and detail. These are just black blurs flying through the air. My god, the image of the wave at the top of this post hardly looks like much of anything and then look at this shot of the wingsuit jumpers. I’m not saying they need to offer up raw camera footage, after all, Mad Max: Fury Road cranked the color spectrum, but it never lost its detail. Just below is a picture of a massive wave from the featurette without any color correction… Now that’s what a wave looks like, though you can roll your mouse over the image for a crude, blockbuster-style teal look, and just know, I really cranked the contrast to achieve that look. Thing is, what’s hidden here is the reality they are going for with their stunts. Even worse, it looks like every other low-rent action film of the last ten years, pumping up the contrast, chroming the film out to appear “cooler”, attempting to hide the flaws in the filmmaking. Does that look like any wave you’ve seen? They have saturated the image, cranked up the blacks and applied a teal and orange color treatment to the point it looks nothing like real life. Look at that screen capture at the top of this post from the film’s trailer. Yet, watching the trailer it felt like nothing new and watching this featurette it becomes painfully evident why. Suffice to say, there is a strong approach to realism at play, something all of us just celebrated while watching Mad Max: Fury Road. The film boasts a fleet of technical advisors including surfers Laird Hamilton, Sebastian Zietz, Makua Rothman, Billy Kemper, Brian Keaulana, Ahanu Tson-dru, Ian Walsh, Laurie Towner, Dylan Longbottom, Albee Layer, Bruce Irons, Tikanui Smith and Tuhiti Humani snowboarders Xavier De Le Rue, Louis Vito, Christian Haller, Lucas DeBari and Ralph Backstrom skateboarders Bob Burnquist and Eric Koston motorcyclists Riley Harper and Oakley Lehman wingsuit stunt pilots Jon Devore, Julian Boulle, Noah Bahnson, Jhonathan Florez and Mike Swanson, and consultant Jeb Corliss and free climber Chris Sharma, among others. released a featurette last night (see bottom of this post) examining these extreme sports from rock climbing, extreme elevation skiing, surfing, wingsuits and more.
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