![]() “We then had our SFX team build a stirring apparatus to disturb the water and create the caustic lighting we wanted for sequences that were beneath the ocean surface.” “My gaffer and I created water trays for theatrical moving lights that we could suspend above the sets, through which light could be projected,” he explains. To help support the dry-for-wet approach, The Little Mermaid’s director of photography, Dion Beebe, decided he would need to design complex lighting effects to simulate the appearance of being underwater. ![]() “Everything had to be choreographed very specifically with a large team of stuntmen and women, who helped maneuver our characters around,” Marshall says. The actors were often hooked into a harness with a counterweight on the backside that would simulate movement underwater. Ultimately, the filmmakers opted for a “dry-for-wet” approach, in which the actors would film their underwater scenes on land in a blue-screen environment, utilizing a series of state-of-the-art rigs that included wires, teeter-totters, and tuning forks. “We started by doing pre-vis animation that calculated and designed and created the entire way that the scenes would play out,” executive producer and unit production manager Jeffrey Silver explains, “and then we looked at every shot to decide how it could best be accomplished.” “The underwater world is entirely digital, and above the water, everything is real and constructed in the way a classic period film is.”īecause visual effects supervisor Tim Burke had to digitally create the underwater scenes in post-production, each one needed to be mapped out in advance. “There are two different worlds in our story: the above world, which is the very real world, and the underwater world, which is our magical world where mermaids exist, crabs sing, and diving birds like Scuttle speak,” Marshall says. Ambitious in scale but grounded in reality, the film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, a spirited mermaid with a beautiful voice and a thirst for adventure-one that will take her above the surface to another world, inhabited by humans. Directed and produced by visionary filmmaker Rob Marshall, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is an intimate story set against an epic backdrop-including a stunning, photorealistic world under the sea. Audiences will once again become part of Ariel’s world when The Little Mermaid, a live-action reimagining of the studio’s Oscar ®-winning animated musical classic, swims into theaters today.
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