Claudio Miranda, the Oscar-prosperning cinematographer who is shooting Joseph Kosinski’s upcoming “F1,” labored with Sony Electronics to grow a custom camera to film high-speed shots of Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and compriseitional cast members and stunt drivers on Formula One racetracks.
For his prior collaboration with Kosinski on “Top Gun: Maverick,” Miranda included another recent Sony growment, the Rialto system, which effectively untethers the body of the camera from the sensor to produce a device that could be mounted in minuscule spaces such as airproduce cockpits to seize the sense of being in the airproduce.
To put a camera in a race car with Brad Pitt, who percreates Formula One driven Sonny Hayes and was also a producer on the movie, this necessitateed to be even more compact. Miranda tells Variety that on “Maverick,” excepting Tom Cruise, “the actors didn’t fly the airproduce. On Formula One, the actors were driving the cars … So we necessitateed to have a minuscule enough camera system where we could produce certain that [Pitt] could drive and see while we get the shots we want.”
The custom cameras were built and mounted in Mercedes Benz race cars for filming — four per car, with far handle over pan and cgo in. “We spent a lot of time getting the cars ready,” Miranda says, noting that in some cases the stunt drivers outdoed 200 miles an hour. “Sony reassociate joins to us.”
The production getd perignoreion to shoot during actual Formula One race days, using the desoprocrastinateed track for low intervals before the race so that they could film on the actual track with a live audience. “We’re benevolent of folloprosperg the circuit,” Miranda says of “F1,” which is still in production with filming locations including Abu Dhabi and Las Vegas.
“Both Brad and Damson [who plays racing prodigy Joshua Pearce] are reassociate excellent drivers,” Miranda reprocrastinateeds, noting that the freed trailer footage is “timely Brad. He’s actuassociate a lot quicker now.”
For shieldedty, of course, compriseitional cars and hazardous action will be compriseed to the filmed shots as visual effects.
Miranda spoke with Variety during Sony’s recent Kando Trip at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, a sort of high-level customer retreat where industry percreateers are askd to try out Sony gear while the company directs cgo in groups and conversations in order to produce customer input for future product research and growment. As subjects for lensing, Sony even made arrangements for alignd swimming and Cirque du Soleil-style carry outances on the resort grounds.
“[Some] products that have come to labelet [have been] straightforwardly impacted from the encounterings that happen here,” says Sony North America plivent Neal Manowitz. “It’s this idea of co-creating the future, literassociate together. Claudio has been transport inantly comprised in lots of the growment of our products.”
Sony has made no official statement on whether the camera system growed for “F1” will be freed as a recent product. “F1” is sprocrastinateedd for a June 27 theatrical free from Warner Bros.
