There’s always an emotional connection to Katniss. However, Bell is quick to note that, “so much of the big scenes is not just action for action’s sake. “Very few exterior shots stood on their own without some type of digital work being done: Even District 12 required set extensions.” “The actors were so good that they easily transported you to spaces that didn’t exist” until the VFX teams worked their magic, Bell says.
There were no real story issues, but there were a lot of big action set pieces that took a lot of working and reworking to get them where they are today.”įor example, a muddy water park in the middle of winter was ultimately transformed into the arena, which is set in a lush jungle surrounded by water. “From the dailies, we could see the fantastic sets and great performances and how much scope there was in the movie.
“Because The Hunger Games books are very solid we tried not to deviate too much from them for Catching Fire,” says Bell. Using the audio mixer it’s very easy to designate sounds to spatial areas of the theater. Bell selected a “giant” Wacom Cintiq flatscreen LCD monitor with a pen interface instead of a mouse, a tool he enjoyed so much that he plans to use it again.Īvid makes it easy to cut in 5.1. Working from the production offices, editorial used a Windows-based Avid Media Composer system coupled with eyeon Fusion compositing software and its Connection plugin and Avid Unity shared storage. The feature was shot on 35mm film during production Deluxe and EFILM processed the film and prepped dailies in LA shipping color corrected dailies back to Atlanta for viewing and sending Avid bins and media to Bell and his team.
Avid makes cutting VFX easyīell spent 10 weeks on location in Atlanta cutting The HungerGames: Catching Fire before moving back to Los Angeles with the rest of postproduction. Sure to satisfy the fans eager for the second installment of the trilogy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire picks up the story of Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark as they embark on their Victory Tour and find themselves in the arena again for the deadly Quarter Quell, an event that takes place every 25 years and is designed to quash sparks of rebellion brewing in the Districts.Īlthough editor Alan Edward Bell, ACE didn’t square off in any arena he faced challenges of his own cutting The Hunger Games sequel, which includes about one hour of compelling competition sequences shot in IMAX.
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