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Everybody has been so busy focusing on the metric-truckload of cast members in front of the camera for Avengers: Doomsday, that nobody has been paying much attention to those toiling away behind the scenes.
One of them has been speaking about a change in approach for this movie over the previous Avengers movies. Production designer Gavin Bocquet.
He was a production designer on the Star Wars prequels, the Young Indiana Jones series, and movies like Stardust. Most recently, he was working on the highly regarded Apple TV series Silo.
He has given an interview to the YouTube channel Young Indy Chroniclers (as reported on Dark Horizons), where he said that one thing he brings is a desire for practical, in-camera effects wherever possible. This includes the set design.
“We had a lot of sets with backings outside them, physical backings, and generally the default situation previous to us was probably let’s put a blue screen out there and do that.
But wherever possible, we either had a Rosco backing that we created ourselves or a painted backing on, I think, 80% of interior sets… with backings. Then it was all in camera, you know, and in the end that’s as much a visual thing as a money thing, you know, if they don’t have to change the exterior.
So wherever we could, we’re bringing that bit of experience in just to adjust those things and not just presume you can always put it in in visual effects. You know, filmmaking is the art of illusion, and if we can do it physically… and Joe and Anthony really like that. We can only do it in certain instances, by [the] nature of these films and the characters in them and the environments you’re doing. But, wherever possible, why not try those things?”
Bouquet highlighted that the stinger credits scene in Thunderbolts used a practical backdrop how it positively impacted the performers, who were previously used to Marvel’s blue-screen heavy approach.
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