Ever since Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, one of the forerunners of cinema, filmed a sequence of moving images such as “Roundhay Garden Scene”, “Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge”, and “Man Walking Around A Corner” using a double-lens camera. unique with a paper film, the film industry has developed all over the world and has not stopped reinventing itself.
As a result, world cinema earned more than BRL 1.669 billion in 2022, overcoming the challenges experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nationally, revenue was R$ 70.94 million, around 4.24% of annual revenue, according to complicated data from the Box Office Mojo portal, specializing in box office, and OCA (Observatório Brasileiro do Cinema e do Audiovisual ), shared by the Exhibitor website.
According to AdilsonMP, movi (stabilized camera) operator – a professional who works in the audiovisual industry with fiction, documentaries, and music videos – the cinema industry is constantly evolving, and a series of technological innovations can already be seen in terms of the service. image capture.
“The Led Virtual Production Stage is one of the industry’s leading innovations. This technology is an option to replace chromakey panels with LED panels, making the set more immersive, both for the actors and for the professionals on the set”, he says.
MP also highlights the “HTC Vive Tracker”, a sensor that captures all camera movements that are interpreted by the Unreal Engine software. “This sensor translates all movements in the scenario as if it were a 3D environment”.
As an example, he cites the clip “Brinquedo”, the result of a partnership between singers Mariana Pimenta and Maiara and Maraisa, who used the HTC Vive Tracker with Led Virtual Production Stage on the Movi Pro stabilizer. “This technology can use the Led Virtual Production Stage to its advantage or even the other technologies available, such as Chroma Key”, he explains.
According to the professional, among the main benefits of new technologies, it is possible to note the savings in post-production time and money, as the material already leaves the set semi-finished.
Avatar has driven technological advances
Adilson points out that James Cameron, director of the “Avatar” franchise, is always looking for new technologies to bring greater immersion to the story: “Avatar 1 revolutionized cinema and ‘pulled’ the industry up, both in terms of demand and technological advances. – which owes much to the perfectionism of the director”.
The professional also draws attention to the fact that, for the second film of the “Avatar” franchise, a camera was developed for the recordings, the “Sony Venice 2”.
“Also, for “Avatar 2: The Way to Water”, they created a digital model so that the crew and director might see, change sets and camera angles digitally, even following the scene had already been recorded,” he says. .
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