Gran Turismo Behind the Scenes
I’ve been obsessed with cars as long as I can remember in 2008 I was reading about the nisson GTR that was built from the ground up as an attack weapon to vaporize cars that cost three or four times as much the R35 GTR is an example of nissen’s concept of innovation for
Excitement they dared to do something that no one else was doing I became totally obsessed with the GCR and I have personally owned a 2009 GTR my name is Neil blumm I am the director of Gran Turismo which is a movie about nissen’s goal to train simulation Racers put them
In real cars and then eventually compete against professional race car drivers when I was off at this film it felt like the perfect opportunity to take an interest that I had that I never thought I would incorporate into film making and kind of do both at the same time this is
Authentic right yeah that’s awesome it’s just like pure function so that’s the reason I definitely wanted to direct this movie Welcome to the GT Academy the 10 of you are the best now is your chance to turn dreams into reality from the beginning an Neil has been very specific about the type of movie he wants to make which involved Real Racing real cars real tracks you’re going to make Split Second
Decisions that could cost you your life I want them breaking the sound batter we’re just going to turn them loose and see if we can do this is not a Game the cars are actually going close to 140 150 mph let’s go talking about when the actors aren’t in the car and we have our strunt drivers and race car drivers driving they’re going close to 200 mph this movie was very real but the film also has about 1,100 hidden VFX
Shots meant to be invisible VFX that transport you to a place the cars are real and the actors in the cars are real but we replicated the crashes with visual effects and we used physics simulation to crash the car and try to get it exact actly like what
Happened as soon as I signed on I started thinking about who could be the best collaborators to make the film with I absolutely love my DP jacqu Joffrey he had the complete right approach to it we would set up the action and then we would just cover it with a lot of
Cameras this film used an insane amount of cameras we had one race sequence that topped out at 24 or simultaneous cameras Running the drones were flying 150 km an hour and basically dive bombing the cars and I just kept trying to get the most dynamic highspeed stuff that I Could we were dealing with some of the best stun drivers in the world we just did one of the Pinnacle Racing scenes of the movie we’re doing it in something called a pod car which means the car is being controlled by a professional driver sitting right on top of me It looks like they’re driving but I’m actually driving up here on top close that Gap come on we found a stunt driver in the UK Maro who had built a camera platform car he had picked a car that was all weather proof four-wheel drive incredibly reliable and could keep Pace with GT3
Race cars of course it was innocent GTR we got to prove to everyone that we belong can we shoot all of this super [Applause] close I’m not sure if I can do this most people can’t I got a feeling you’re not most people this movie is shot all around the
World goes to several of the most famous racetracks on the planet we are at the Sakia Ring The nurburg Ring in Germany the Dubai Auto drone Red Ring you have 8 to 10 extras per team that are in the pit if you have 10 teams you have 80 people it means you’re
Moving 80 people plus the actors rest of the crew over 20 race cars and about 24 four stunt drivers to this number of RAC tracks with that comes a lot of different challenges this has tested the reses of the cast The Crew everyone the weather has been very
Unpredictable we’ve had heavy fog which meant we couldn’t film we’ve had heavy snow it was obviously completely unsho we’ve had rain machines when it’s been actually raining so we’re completely soaked from the actual rain and then fake rain on top of that it’s been challenging beyond belief
But I wouldn’t change a single minute cuz it’s been so much fun I have always had a love affair with cars there’s something with cars that they feel like this merging between structural engineering and Art if you told the 15-year-old version of me that you would direct a large Hollywood film centered around race cars on tracks all over Europe that would would have be my dream goal so I hope some kid out there feels that you can follow your dreams and they may very well come
True I’m so proud of You huge thanks to everyone you guys are Awesome go
From the sofa to the racetrack.
Turning dreams into reality!
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