Jack the Giant Slayer

What it was

Bryan Singer's version of the fairytale used stereo to make the giants frightening in scale, applying miniaturisation as a narrative device: two worlds, human and giant, treated differently in depth. Chris Parks, Melissa Byers, Matthew Smith and the Vision3 team set up and operated what was then one of the biggest native stereo shoots in the UK.

Technical approach

Among the first tentpole productions to shoot on Red Epic cameras, so the workflow had to be planned to keep up with a fast production schedule while the cameras were new. Chris continued through post, working with the VFX to deliver the final stereo. One angle was made deliberately less interesting so it would cut with the reverse, and a king's shoulder was eased into theatre space: small decisions of the kind a depth script is made of.