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BITS & PIECES DISGUISE OPENS EXPERIENCE CENTER IN ATLANTA ATLANTA — Disguise (www.disguise.one) recently opened a new 8,000-square-foot office and Experience Center in Atlanta, providing the creative community with a hands-on space to test, learn and build real-world skills. Designed for creators, technologists and production teams, the center offers access to the same technology used for concert tours and live produc- tions, and will be used to host training, demos and community-focused events. The new space is located in Atlanta's historic Westside Paper building in West Midtown. It houses a new area for Disguise's creative and technical solu- tions teams, along with a dedicated hardware support center for the Americas and the Experience Center. The center will allow creators, technologists and brands to test ideas before they go live, and will host community events and training sessions to build practical skills in pre-production, creative sequencing, system integration and projection workflows. The Experience Center features a virtual production LED stage for demos, prototyping and R&D, offering teams a platform to explore new approaches to storytelling. The stage is powered by Disguise Studio Pro, Disguise's full-ser- vice virtual production solution for flexible content production. Completing the setup is a GX 3+ media server, which provides high-performance playback capability. The stage itself is realized using Planar CarbonLight CLI Series and Leyard ALF Series LED panels, forming a high-quality canvas that's optimized for virtual production and realtime content. www.postmagazine.com 4 POST JAN/FEB 2026 PRIMATE: STEPHEN MURPHY SHOOTS PARAMOUNT PICTURES' HORROR FEATURE LONDON — Primate, from Paramount Pictures, was directed by Johannes Roberts and tells the story of a group of friends, whose tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival. The feature was released on January 9th and stars Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann and Tienne Simon. Stephen Murphy served as cinematographer on the horror film. "I was introduced to Primate through the production manager, Darran Chesney, with whom I had worked before on shows like Krypton and Death and Nightingales," Murphy explains. "The director, Johannes Roberts, was keen to find a cinematographer who loved genre movies, and Darran arranged for us to have a chat. I was still shooting Heart Eyes in New Zealand at the time, so we spoke via Zoom and very quickly discovered a shared love for John Carpenter's movies. That became our jumping off point for the visual style of the movie." Murphy says his path to cinematography was unexpected, as he initially got his start in Hollywood as a trainman as a make-up artist, because he wanted to create monsters. "Now I had a chance as a cinematographer to shoot an old-fashion monster movie with a real performer in a monster suit, so I jumped at it!" The shoot was almost entirely based on stages in London. The "one location" set build from production designer Simon Bowles included a swimming pool that forms a central part of the story. "We shot on Sony Venice 2 cameras paired with Panavision T-series ana- morphics, both for the stage and water work," he recalls. "We used a variety of tools to move the camera, primarily conventional dolly with a remote head, but for the pool work, my key grip, Malcolm Huse, built a series of flotation devices that we could rig a handheld camera in a scuba bag to so that we could track around the pool with the actors." Murphy says he's most proud of the fact that the film was shot in a very old- school sort of way, with a creature almost entirely on a stage. "I've been a fan of monsters since I was a kid, and my journey into this in- dustry started off with me wanting to design and build monsters as a make-up artist, so to come around full circle and get to shoot an old-fashion monster movie on stages was fantastic fun."