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Step By Step: Vantage Point

The Rashomon-styled structure of Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point required Director Pete Travis to depict a tumultuous political rally from the points of view of different characters. Amongst 6,000 people in a plaza in Spain, a tourist played by Forest Whitaker sees one view, while Sigourney Weaver's TV journalist sees another. When chaos erupts and the panicked crowd attempts to flee, the job of depicting these masses from multiple perspectives presented a visual effects challenge for Rainmaker Digital in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the show's London-based supervisor, Paddy Eason. “The crowds were shot with five cameras ...

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