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24: From LA to New York

Check out how 24 films in Los Angeles and uses a green screen Virtual Backlot to layer New York City.

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24 isn’t exactly the thumping series it once was, which is so sad. It’s not proving one of 7TWO’s top shows, and in the US there is regular talk that it should wind up and shift to the big screen.

Still, this clip from FOX is an interesting view on how the show is predominantly filmed in LA which doubles for New York thanks to green screen.

Visual Effects Supervisor James Riley details how it all works on a Virtual Backlot.

“The basic green screen process has been around for a long time. Actors/partial sets are shot on green screen so they can be easily ‘chroma keyed’ into various backgrounds/environments in post production.

“Most recently, however, the most significant and exciting innovations are in ‘Virtual Production’ where the basic green screen techniques are enhanced with real time tracking, keying, and multilayered controls so everyone can see (and manipulate) the entire world while they’re shooting. James Cameron developed and utilized Virtual Production extensively on Avatar.

“Since the movies and TV shows we work on don’t have $200 million for their projects, we’ve developed a low cost Virtual Production system we call “Virtual Backlot Live” which offers many of the benefits of Virtual Production at a fraction of the costs.”

Source: FOX

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  3. How dare you say 24 is rubbish, what kind of rubbish crap are you into hah?? 24 still offers more action/suspense and thrills than any other posh american dramas that portray their actors as good looking, smart alec perverts who cant do action eg NCIS, Lost etc.

  4. whatever about how well (or not) C72 advertise it – i definitely think the season is pretty weak. I find it full of characters i dont really care about. There’s no real “excitement” in this season – it seems pretty pedestrian stuff. The only people I rally care about are Chloe….and i guess jack.

    I dont think this show’ll make a successful transition to the big screen either – by the time it does….it’ll have nothing to add to the genre that hasn’t been done before by simiar characters – such as the current James Bond franchise, the Bourne identity etc. Die hard is running out of steam (am i the only one who thought the last one was a pretty diluted affair?), the bourne identity guys (greengrass & Damon) are already thnking about where to go next with the franchise – with a reboot(wtf) being an option.

    It just begs the question – where to next for the franshise? The tv show is on its last legs and a movie would have to hit the ground sprinting for it to make way….

  5. Erm, perhaps people have just woken up to that fact that it’s rubbish, like Lost, or any of the rest of this, hopefully, short lived genre?

  6. Yeah of course its not rating well because Channel 7 never advertise it. For heavens sake they pumped alot of time promoting and advertising for The Sopranos, are show that shows repeats but not for 24, a show that shows brand new episodes every week!!

  7. It may not rate much on 7TWO, but it’s still good to have the option of a 8.30 pm timeslot. It’s just a shame that the additional channels can’t also currently broadcast in HD.

    For what Fox would have to pay Keifer to sign on for 1 or 2 more final 24 seasons (probably 1 million per episode, or very close to it), it’s not worth it to extend the show. They’re better off doing big budget 24 cinema films, to take over as their replacement for the Die Hard film series, if the first film does well.

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