Okay!
First of all, I'm encouraged by the footage tests. This camera can do what we need it to do. Not perfect for high-quality 3D tracking, but totally doable. Plus, free excuses where necessary — I'll take it! Thanks for filmin' those. There's also the possibility, if the Avengers assemble and all that, that there'd be another camera to fiddle with. No matter what, we're good. (I'mma do a test 3D track on your forest shot now, just for funsies.)
As for screen replacements, I'll come back at ya with a full treatise on filming for that stuff. (And if you could do me a favor and hand it off to all the TV directors in Hollywood, I'd be much obliged.) Beyond the actual shooting requirements, though, my instinct would be to put screens where there currently aren't. The TV could certainly be one, but so could the whole chunk of suspended cabinets, spare walls, windows, etc.. We can go exactly as nuts as we wanna go. Honestly, since we don't have concept art to live up to, the effects we end up doing will be mostly based on how much the footage wants to cooperate. If we can get a rock solid 3D track of the RV scenes, the sky — and our roto budget — are the limit for how TRON we can go.
As for outside-the-windows stuff, my instinct would be to leave them wide open (IE, glass closed, shades open) and pitch black. We get a lot of options that way, but my favorite of them would be starfields. Could also do screens, or even just leave them as photographed. They might drop off into obscurity with the color correction anyway. In any case, solid black with a small handful of subtle tracking markers will be the best bet.
I'll start working on his ship design. In the meantime, what are you thinkin' as far as production schedules go? Now that you may have an army of woodland creatures driving out to help shoot, picking a date will make their lives easier to plan.
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Teague Chrystie
I have a tendency to fix your typos.
