Watch: Video Explores Secret To Editing ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Plus Gallery Of Before/After VFX Shots
The idea of a blockbuster movie containing 2,700 cuts, isn’t always the most thrilling notion. Many summer spectacles are cut to the point of incomprehension, with the action on screen reduced to a blur of moving parts, but with little sense of impact or geography. Not so with “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and this quick new video explains why.
Vahsi Visuals uses a scene from the film along with an interview with cinematographer John Seale to quickly show how the viewer knows everything that’s going on in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and the solution is simple: keep the action in the center of the frame. By using “Eye Trace” and “Crosshair Framing,” Miller instructed everyone working on the movie to keep the action always in the middle of the anamorphic frame. The result? Your eye always knows where to fix itself. And all you have to do for a study in contrasts is take a look at something like “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” in which the camera and action seems to never stop moving, making the eye...