Production has begun on a new movie in Regina, which will be shot entirely using a new piece of technology called an LED volume wall.
Trevor Cameron, the writer and director of the film, #Vanlife, said that shooting with the LED intensity wall has its advantages.
“This idea of shooting on a volume wall means I can shoot outside and not have to worry about smoke from fires. If I want night, I don’t have to wait until one in the morning when it finally gets dark.” he said.
A new film will be shot entirely using an LED volume wall. (Gareth Dillistone/CTV News) The wall aims to reduce production time, but the process is very extensive.
“The pre-production process for the volume shots is so extensive that you have to decide the camera angles, you have to literally build the virtual world in which the film takes place,” said Anand Ramayya, the film’s producer.
#Vanlife is said to be the first indie Canadian film shot entirely using the technology.
A new film will be shot entirely using an LED volume wall. (Gareth Dillistone/CTV News)
“Not many filmmakers have used it yet. I think that will change as people realize the convenience of being able to shoot in normal hours and in a more compressed time frame,” Cameron said.
The film will be a horror-thriller film that tells the story of young adults who want to live the van life and capture that journey using social media.
There is also an indigenous element to it. Cameron said he used his Métis background as inspiration when he came to write it.
“Métis have been called invisible people because sometimes they’re not considered indigenous, so I just wanted to bring that to the forefront in a story, that idea of a character who can stand in for white but is Métis,” Cameron explained.
“For him as an Indigenous Metis filmmaker to tell his story, it was an exciting opportunity for us to do a film with such diversity,” Ramayya said.
Over 50 percent of the cast is indigenous.
Filming will take place over the next three weeks.
