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camera that they were using for visual effects." Christopher Nolan is exacting and tireless in what he expects from his crew. In Morocco, Willie, explains, "You got the sand dunes, and you're climbing over them, and Chris did not want us to have sound carts with wheels, because you'd see the wheel tracks. That meant carrying the equipment in bag rigs, probably 80% of this film is bag rigged with my Deva Fusion. Chris won't let you carry some stuff in and then go back and get more. Once you get to the set, you have to be ready to go. Chris Nolan is ready to shoot, and he wants to go. You have no time to go a quarter of a mile back to the truck and get more equipment. No, you've got to be ready, so we hired a local person, a laborer, even if they aren't familiar with sound, to help us carry equipment every day." "All I can say," adds Doug, "our first day of shooting was an eye-opener. We were on a beach where the ships are all on dry land and the shot is looking down the beach. Chris had everyone walk in the water because he didn't spoke with Production Mixer Willie Burton CAS and Boom Operator Doug Shamburger on their work on Christopher Nolan's latest film, The Odyssey. Shot entirely on an IMAX camera with a gigantic bespoke blimp in over twenty-two locations in six countries. Willie describes the adventure, "We started in Morocco, and then to Greece, and then to two cities in Sicily, Italy, and then back to LA, filming on stage for about a month, with a couple of weeks off in between, and then we went to Iceland, and to Scotland, and back to Morocco." Chris is still big on hardline microphones, but on this film, he had to be a little bit more lenient in using more wireless than usual, because of the conditions and the locations. Doug continues, "For the first time, we were using the IMAX camera in a blimp and not the Panaflex 65 millime- ter, like we had in the two previous films. So, this will be the first film that is 100% IMAX aside from the VistaVision I The Castle of Santa Caterina Fall 2026 – LOCAL695.COM 25