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Julie Kirkwood (DP) Storyboards Exposure's Chase Sequence

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When our shotlist for the building location was complete it had over eighty shots on it.  With two shooting days for several interior and exterior dialogue scenes and a chase sequence involving our main cast and crowds of extras, this wasn't going to be possible. We narrowed it down a bit before the shoot and we did get over seventy shots in the course of those two days-- thanks to an incredibly hardworking cast and crew.

Above is the storyboarded shot from the post below-- the way it looks in the final film.

 

Julie Kirkwood (DP) & Writer-Director Mia Trachinger On Scouting Out the Chase Sequence Location

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Mia and I knew that the office building location was going to be very important in terms of the look of Exposure.  When the building with a strange layout and a lot of glass became an option, we both hesitated because it wasn't how we pictured that part of the film.  Pretty quickly, we did a complete turnaround and decided we needed that building.

Mia and I made several visits to the building to shotlist together.  Our storyboarding sessions consisted of running around with a DSLR shooting video and stills of Mia acting out the scenes.  Above is a shot of Mia simultaneously playing the roles of a crowd of office workers desperately running from government agents and a man being trampled by them.  It's one of my favorite shots in the finished film-- and one of my favorite storyboard videos.