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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cOur high bar is always \u2018How can we get it in-camera?\u2019\u201d Miranda said. \u201cWe\u2019re not really interested in other synthetic approaches. The high bar is reality. Then the trick is to figure out how to do it. Joe says that we can get the actors to drive these cars, and I go, \u2018Well, how do they drive these cars at 200 miles an hour?\u2019 We couldn\u2019t do that with traditional filmmaking equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n
That traditional equipment, such as biscuit rigs and tow dollies, wouldn\u2019t be able to reach anywhere near the breakneck speed of true Formula One races. So he thought back to his previous collaboration with Kosinski, when they captured high-speed action and audiences turned out in droves. \u201cIn \u2018Top Gun,\u2019 we found out how immersive the audience felt when they were in the jets,\u201d Miranda said.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the two-year \u201cF1\u201d shoot, the director of photography \u2014 who during the SAG-AFTRA strike detoured to take over the second-unit photography as a way to keep moving forward \u2014 was provided access to various tracks and races. His team replaced Formula One equipment with their own special cameras to get the footage they needed. Apple made the crew a series of onboard cameras they could use on the cars\u2019 wings during real races, while Sony developed its own series of one-off cameras that Miranda referred to as \u201csensors on a stick.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The DP said that Formula One prefers \u201ca very tight shutter\u201d on the auto-mounted cameras it uses, because that allows viewers to identify the copious advertising on each car. \u201cCinematically, I like it a little bit more open shutter that gives you motion blur and all that stuff, so we found a compromise there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cF1\u201d crew fit their shoots into short time slots allotted to them during actual Formula One events, which let them put their cars on the track during warmup laps. This often meant filming what they needed in 15-, 10- and even three-minute chunks. It was a tough job, but it made the movie feel all the more real, eliciting genuine audience reactions and evoking the true environment of an \u201cF1\u201d race.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kept it small and played nicely,\u201d Miranda said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t trying to be \u2018Big Hollywood\u2019 in their world. We were trying to be a little version of Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story first ran in the\u00a0Below-the-Line\u00a0issue of TheWrap\u2019s awards magazine.\u00a0Read more from the issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joseph Kosinski and his \u201cF1\u201d department heads photographed for TheWrap by SMALLZ + RASKIND<\/p>\n The post \u2018F1\u2019 DP Claudio Miranda Breaks Down the Extreme Lengths He Went to for His \u2018Crazy Ideas\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudio Miranda entered \u201cF1\u201d with the same goal he had on \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d \u2014 render action sequences…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[40575,49,48,49011,578,137877,576,577,137876,82,2021],"class_list":["post-308248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-apple-original-films","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-claudio-miranda","tag-f1","tag-filmmaking-equipment","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-onboard-cameras","tag-sports","tag-warner-bros-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Joseph](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3e66886fb8e19a5f6233aef4cc61cee5.jpeg\"\/)
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