One of the most exciting aspects seen in the new footage from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the space battle battle involving TIE Fighters and X-Wings Director Gareth Edwards recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly's Dan Breznican about what it was like to create those spectacular scenes and how the techniques they used differ from other movies.
Edwards described the process:
"When we were filming the X-wing footage in the film, we had the X-wing [cockpit] mounted to a gimbal so it could move around, like it was really flying. Then all around were the screens, in 180 degrees, that were projecting space and this pre-animated flight path as the X-wing was moving around, like it was really flying."
We've seen a glimpse of this in the behind-the scenes sizzle reel released at the Star Wars Celebration during the summer. (Check out the 1:16 mark):
The whole process sounds fun to shoot. Edwards went on to describe:
"I got inside this X-wing, put the camera on top of my shoulder and they closed the cockpit. Then the thing just started flying and we started going through space in a space battle. And I was filming it, trying to film everything and trying to get the shots as well as I could."
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will hit theaters on December 16, 2016.
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