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The Official Gilded Age Podcast
S2 Ep. 4: “His Grace the Duke” with Lauri Pitkus and Douglas Purver
Nov 20, 2023
Join Alicia Malone and Tom Meyers as they analyze the drama on 61st Street. They talk to location manager Lauri Pitkus and VFX supervisor Douglas Purver about finding locations and enhancing them with visual effects. They discuss the challenges of finding clean locations and using real locations versus shooting on a soundstage. They also explore the use of technology to create realistic backdrops in 'The Gilded Age'.
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- The visual effects team in The Gilded Age aims to make their effects seamless and invisible, enhancing storytelling without drawing attention to themselves.
- The location manager, Laurie Pitkus, works closely with the visual effects team to integrate real locations with visual effects, ensuring authenticity and minimizing the need for excessive digital work.
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Creating Seamless Visual Effects
Douglas Perver, the show's visual effects supervisor, works closely with the director and cinematographer to strategize and plan how to shoot scenes that need visual effects. They aim to make the effects seamless and invisible, enhancing the storytelling without drawing attention to themselves. Douglas adds missing elements and removes modern elements from the scenes, ensuring everything looks realistic and cohesive.
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