Strangerland

I contributed clean-up work and closing titles for this drama starring Nicole Kidman.

Client: Soundfirm
Website: soundfirm.com
Date: January 23, 2015
Services: Motion Design & Compositing
Tricky cleanup / reconstruction where crew members hat went over her arm.
Tricky cleanup / reconstruction where crew members hat went over her arm.

About

While freelancing at Soundfirm at Fox Studios in Sydney I worked as a compositor on Strangerland (Kim Farrant, 2015). I completed clean-up compositing tasks as well as typesetting and animating the closing credits.

The movie is about a family living in the Australian Outback who’s world is shaken when their two teenage children disappear into the desert. The big thrill for me on this film was that I got to work on a shot with Nicole Kidman in it. It was also a nominee for the Grand Jury prize for World Cinema at Sundance.

Workflow

We also looked into doing some compositing using Mamba for this film, it was a little comp package that SGO were pushing as an assist tool for Mistika. Soundfirm had supplied a Mistika system for the 3D workflow on the Great Gatsby and were keen to expand that pipeline. In the end though I found it just quicker to use Mocha Pro and some After Effects for the tasks. It seems like since 2015 Mamba has gone the way of the dodo.

Cleanup of shadows cause by bugs flying in front of the light!
Cleanup of shadows cause by bugs flying in front of the light!