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FILMMAKING www.postmagazine.com 21 POST JUNE 2016 Where are you doing the review and approval? "In my editing [space]. We have editing and visual effects together. We also work with Uncharted Territory (www.uncharted- territory.com). That's Volker and Marc (Weigert's) company. I traditionally want to work with them. They are doing like 50 shots for us. And because they are right there, it's great for us because we can sometimes even give them stuff to fix. That's in Cahuenga Pass. I kind of rent an office — not a very nice office, I can tell you (laughs). Everyone comes to us and says, 'That's where they are making this movie?!'" What formats were you shooting in '96, and now? "This time around I shot digital, but in '96, I shot film. And the soundtrack was on magnetic tape!" Do you have a preference when it comes to cameras or do you leave it up to the DP, Markus Foerderer? "I leave that to my DP because I'm more of somebody who knows the camera is only one part of the story. For example, we use Hawke lenses. Hawke is an anamorphic lens from Germany. I like them very much because they look very much like film. If you use these lenses with the Alexa or the Red, what we get doesn't really matter, really. Workflow-wise, it was better to go with Red because it has something to do with our workflow." You've shot digitally in the past? "I shot the first (Arri) Alexa film ever. Anonymous (2011) was shot on a proto- type of the Alexa. It was interesting. "My DP uses Red, and that's fine. I love digital because, as a director, it gives you so many advantages, especially when you work on visual effects films. Digital is just a better tool. It gets better results in the film. And as a director, you can see that you get a really sharp image, so it looks pretty much like your film will later look. You can go up to your camera man and say, 'Make the fill light a little darker or dead black,' and on top of it, your actors are really in focus. You see every nuance in really good quality. I have a high-resolution, big monitor on my set, especially when I shoot close ups." What was the editing set up? "It's the normal Avid." 20 th Century Fox brings Independence Day: Resurgence to theaters on June 24 th . DP Markus Foerderer shot Resurgence using Red cameras. The film was edited by Adam Wolfe. Resurgence features nearly 2,000 VFX, with Weta, ScanlineVFX and MPC among the contributors.

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