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'Top Gun: Maverick' Director Joseph Kosinski & Editor Eddie Hamilton

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What's Going on in the Air?

There are six cameras running all the time, there is a two central cameras, a wider one and a tighter one. Sometimes we would do an ultra tight one if we really wanted to get super close. And then the actors are sitting in the back so there's four cameras in the back of the plane pointing at them. Two cameras looking over the shoulder of the top gun pilot in the front cockpit who is dressed identically to the pilot in the back. So they would use a kind of female top gun pilot with Phoenix's helmet to fly because then it looks like it's Bob's POV over her shoulder. The first thing we would do is grab the card out of the wide centre camera

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