RANGER: Guardian, this is Badger 01.
What about the guy in blue?
HARDY: I said engage...
...all targets.
ZACK: Hey, guys, I'm back to talk a little bit about previs.
Previs is a digital or low-tech CG version of the scene.
What that allows is us to know what elements we need to shoot...
...especially in a heavy VFX sequence, whether it's real backgrounds...
...or digital backgrounds, digital doubles or real actors.
Someone on a wire or, you know, a full CG character.
So it's pretty cool because it really helps us make the movie.
And that gets you to see the helicopter, right?
And then, as it gets shot or hit, that makes you stand up, right...
-...because now it's spinning. - Okay.
Spinning, spinning, spinning, and it'll go right like this.
- See the lenses of the street lamps? - Yeah.
The lenses.
It goes along the line of those lenses.
MAN: Go.
HARDY: Brace for impact.
Brace for impact. We're going in hard!
PILOT: Fallen angel. Fallen angel- Guardian is down. I repeat, Guardian is clown.
You get-- You can be like:
And then you look just as it's--
When she lowers her hand, so can see him and jump.
Okay, yeah.
CARO: Boom. That's the trick. - Yeah, try to look right where Damon is.
Remember to look at him. That's cooler, scarier.
CARO: Hit that guy.
ZACK: Because you don't look at any of these guys.
That's cool that she rises up, there's guys all around and she's just looking out there.
- And then she goes: - Yeah.
CARO: Once she comes up, aim to her right side a little bit more. Yeah.
- She can get in. MAN: Yeah.
PILOT: Guardian, do you read?
Thunder 12, calling Guardian.
- Do you read? - Thunder 12...
...this is Guardian.
Put down everything you've got north of my position.
- This will be danger-close. - Copy, danger-close.
Good luck, sir.
I think we're gonna do two pairs over there...
...so we can drop two more nitrogens just like this.
- Two of those over there? Okay. - Two big ones, drop right there.
MAN: Great.
When she jumps over there...
...and lands on the roof, the roof crushes...
...and the wheels pop out. This whole thing'll drop down.
MAN: And action. And jump and crush.
Let's explain what'll happen so we'll be safe.
It's high pressure through the pistons, pulls the roof down.
It'll still be under pressure once the roof is crushed...
...so no one goes in obviously until we've gone in and bled the system down.
So we ask everybody to back up. The only thing that has to run here...
...is the camera. No people in the shot.
MAN: Three, two, one.
[GUN CLICKING]
Here's a question for you.
Do you want a-- Do you want a moment of stillness, and then she gets wiped out?
She falls, boom. Because Damon just did something that made me-- He made a move.
Yeah, then he gets wiped-- It's kind of cool.
You're ready to go, you guys are ready to engage.
ZACK: Let's try it.
A good death is its own reward.
So we'd be like... And action.
And then a little-- Chase him like that.