There was a lot that I took away from this video. One thing that really struck me was how many different jobs there were. Obviously in class we have talked about the amount of jobs available on movie sets, but even outside of the actual filming jobs, such as actors, cinematographers, grips, directors, storyboarders and other jobs that pertain to actually shooting scenes, there’s a vast amount of jobs available in other departments. For example, set design, costume design, prop design, site scouting, cgi, makeup, and other such jobs that are crucial to the project. But what struck me was how each of these departments and jobs was not just one person, but could be up to 50 people working on one job. Since this was an action movie, there were obviously a lot of props used. But since it was a fantasy universe, each weapon had to be designed from scratch to fit the theme of the universe and the backstories of the characters using them.

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In the video there are all sorts of people doing all sorts of different things that are every big as important. Another thing I noticed was how all the actors worked so closely with so many people to achieve their character portrayal. It takes real cooperation to successfully make a film this complex. A really cool thing that they did was to solve the problems of the cave shots. The caves needed to look tight and cramped to make for a tense, creepy look, but if they were too tight, the cameras and lights couldn’t fit through. So they made each section of cave wall removable to allow different shots to happen without trouble. It was interesting that the director who is just giving a tour for the video didn’t know about smaller details. For instance, he didn’t know what something he picked up in the cave was. What this tells me is that he gave jobs to people, and let them do their job without micromanaging it.

 

While this would probably be impossible on such a large project anyway, I can take away that directors don’t always need to be super on top of every little detail, and that trusting your workers to do their job will yield good results. I thought the way they showed the welcome ceremony by a local tribe, since they shot in New Zealand.