The shot

The plate is a slow dolly back down an empty desert highway at golden hour. A man walks toward the lens, away from a parked black muscle car, and slides on his sunglasses. In the final, the car blows apart behind him: the doors tear open, the glass bursts and a fireball rolls into the sky. He never breaks stride.

How it was made

The plate was generated as flat, ungraded footage, the way it would come off a cinema camera. The explosion was added as a video edit that keeps the camera move and the man’s performance from the plate, and the final was then graded.

Spec work, not commissioned.