Stowaway is a space movie,
but it really is a philosophical exploration or exercise
for both the characters and the audience.
It's three astronauts on their way to Mars,
and they discover an unexpected passenger.
In this opening scene, it's the launch, Joe and I are big fans of
just getting the audience into the story.
And then this first shot,
we wanted to make sure that we were putting you both in the capsule
and really establishing that Zoe is our
our perspective here.
This second shot here is actually me
standing in for Toni Collette, Oscar
nominee Toni Collette.
I was editing this scene on the soundstage
as as they were shooting it.
I also was dynamically linking a lot of these to
After Effects because all of this sequence was shot in front of a blue screen.
So I would key things out and
plug in a new background and keep it dynamically linked in
and Premiere, it added so much energy to the process of cutting it together.
I remember putting music in like they were still sitting on the ship,
shooting it, and I'm putting music in under the coverage that I had.
I knew in that moment I was like, Oh, I know, I know
what the scene is going to feel like.
So I started playing with
how is this scene going to feel esthetically?
Then that cyclically started informing how they were shooting it.
So we really were shaking the hell out of these actors.
And then after we added a little bit more camera shake in post
just to add some more tension and to help feed the energy of the scene.
We shot in 8K and that gave me the opportunity
to really use the rotation and reposition the shots as a tool to illustrate
how gravity was affecting our characters.
And the sound design, the rising
pitch of the rocket.
We wanted to create this really loud cacophony of sound
and then. Silence.
That was something we really wanted that contrast.
And it makes you feel like you've broken out of the atmosphere
and that gravity is not going to be present anymore.
And you're off this little blue marble.
And the main point of the scene was to get to Zoe's reaction,
seeing the Earth and it and it tells you a lot
about who this character is.
And then their, you know,
their shared relationship, she looks to him right away
and she's welled up with emotion.
And it's not about spaceships, it's not about
the Earth, it's about the people.