Conduct your own research.

1. Who was the Cinematographer for Dredd?

2. What other films have they worked on?

Read this interview with VFX Supervisor Jon Thum and answer the questions below: http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/motion-graphics/interview-dredd-3d-vfx-supervisor-jon-thum/

3. Where did production take place?

The cinematographer for Dredd is Anthony Dod Mantle.

He has worked on numerous Danny Boyle films such as 127 hours, slum dog millionaire and 28 Days later.

This film was produced in South Africa as it was the most cost effective and practical place to shoot for the film. The location is also good for the mega city one concepts.

4. Who was the writer, Alex Garland, in regular contact with?

5. How did the production team create the effect of people being shot?

6. How was the Slo-Mo effect created?

What was the total shot count for the film? How many were VFX shots?

There were 650 shots taken to create Dredd, with over 300 of them being visual effect shots.

The slow motion effect used in scenes when characters take the fictional drug “Slow mo”, were designed over several years. These scenes were supposed to replicate the effects of hallucinogenic drugs, combining high-speed photography and colour saturation. The producer Alex Garland was interested to see if this slow motion effect could “make violence beautiful”. Alex Garland and Dredds VFX supervisor Jon Thum thought of the concept of the slow motion scenes while filming “Never let me go”. They then developed and modified the effect until the end of Dredds post-production, tweaking colours, colour saturation, image framing and camera motion. The filmmakers experimented with blood bags, prosthetics, shooting real bullets, and compressed air to see the effect of direct body hits in slow motion. In the finished film, compressed air was used to create impact ripples on the actors/actresses flesh.

He was in regular contact with John Wagner the creator of judge dredd, this is so they were sure they were taking the film in the correct direction.

Editors had to use computer effects to add blood and gore to the scenes. To simulate what actual bullets would do against flesh they fired at blood bags to see the results.