The DP describes the look as a sort of stylized documentary. “We wanted to make it look real, you don’t want it to feel like it’s a computer game,” Jouffret says, adding though that it also had to offer a hint of the game. “We needed to increase some angles that the people who play the game could recognize right off the bat.”
In capturing the realism, he adds, “those cars are brutal, they are aggressive. They look beautiful on the outside, but the inside experience is quite something and they wanted to give the audience that experience.” For filming, Jouffret chose Sony’s Venice 2 cameras using its Rialto extension system that effectively detaches the sensor from the camera body. This allowed the filmmakers to put cameras in the very tight spaces inside the cars, just as the filmmakers on