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18 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Fall 2020 six weeks in Estonia, filming in Linnahall, shooting a complicated car scene. Willie spent the bulk of that time in the chase vehicle with rooftop antennas, as well as a Deva Fusion in the picture car. The actors wore wires, as well as hard-wired mics in the vehicle. They also filmed in Tallinn, which doubled for the Opera House in Kiev. Then there was a three-week stint at the Amalfi Coast, in Italy filming on the luxury superyacht the Planet Nine measuring just over two hundred forty feet long, it has six decks and its own helicopter pad. In South Hampton, England, they filmed a complicated speedboat race scene. Willie describes the challenges, "The boat had to be launched by seven o'clock. So Rene and I had to arrive at six to wire the race boat with my Deva 5.8, set it up, and test it out. We used a quarter-watt transmitter at the stern of the boat in order to transmit the sound to the chase boat that we would be on. I would turn on the recorder and from seven in the morning, it ran the whole time until the boat got back in. The Deva on the picture boat transmitted to the chase boat, where I was also recording the dialog. We used the headsets worn by the actors on the speedboat. The speedboat could go much faster than our chase boat, so sometimes they would take off and we'd be trying to catch up. There was so much wind and water hitting them, it was pretty incredible and very challenging. I think we did a really good job on that." They also had a mock-up of the hero speedboat attached to a picture boat, where Doug was able to boom the dialog, of course hardlined. As in all Christopher Nolan films, the plot is complicated, with many scenes where the characters move forward and backward in time, as well as wearing breathing masks. Rene explains, "Because of the nature of the story, you needed a specific type of oxygen. Whenever you were in reverse mode, they had to have oxygen to breathe." Clockwise from top: (L-R) Himesh Patel, Robert Pattinson, and John David Washington; Christopher Nolan laying out the scene with Washington. Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon. ©2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved; (L-R) Doug Shamburger, Rene Defrancesch, and Willie Burton on their truck in Mumbai, India.