Guillaume Rocheron (1917)

Filmspotting : The Process: Guillaume Rocheron (1917)  Image
Filmspotting : The Process: Guillaume Rocheron (1917)  Image

Guillaume Rocheron (1917)

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This episode of Filmspotting is presented by the Academy Award-Winning film 1917. Available now on Digital streaming and on Blu-ray and DVD March 24th.

Sam Mendes’ acclaimed WWI film was a hugely ambitious undertaking for all involved, including Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron (“Ad Astra,” “Life of Pi”). In this edition of Filmspotting: The Process, Rocheron describes the unique challenges that the film’s “single-shot” approach created, and how his VFX team collaborated with Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins to bring some of the film’s most memorable scenes to life.

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