https://shotonwhat.com/on-set-services/compositing-on-set The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:41:47 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:34:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:16:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:02:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019
Director: Markus Otz
Cinematographer: Kurt Amzos
«The Legend of the White Ibex» is a narrative short film, with a cinematic cut in a poetic philosophical genre that compares the human soul with the forces of the universe, in the awareness of the indispensable necessity of the ma... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dexter-2013 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:40:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dexter-2013
Director: John Dahl, Steve Shill, Keith Gordon, Marcos Siega, Ernest R. Dickerson, Romeo Tirone, Michael Cuesta, Tony Goldwyn, S.J. Clarkson, Stefan Schwartz, Robert Lieberman, Nick Gomez, Tim Hunter, Michael Lehmann, Holly Dale, Alik Sakharov, Adam Davidson, Jeremy Podeswa, Brian Kirk, Milan Cheylov, Seith Mann, Michael C. Hall
Cinematographer: Romeo Tirone, Jeffrey Jur, Martin J. Layton, Alan Caso, Terry Stacey
By day, mild-mannered Dexter is a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But at night, he is a serial killer who only targets other murderers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/troubling-youth-2019 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:41:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/troubling-youth-2019
Director: Caleb Nsingi
Cinematographer: Nicolas Gagnon
A teenage boy pays the ultimate price because his best friend who causes nothing but trouble, chose something over their friendship. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:21:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancee in response. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/immortals-2011 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:14:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/immortals-2011
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cinematographer: Brendan Galvin
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:02:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:00:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chelsea-lately-2007 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:08:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chelsea-lately-2007
Director: James Yukich, Alek Keshishian, Bob McKinnon
Cinematographer: Lee Rose
Comedian Chelsea Handler talks about celebrity gossip, pop culture and interviews celebrities while giving her audience something to laugh at. She is accompanied by her round table guests ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/2012-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:55:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/2012-2009
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-impossible-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:54:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-impossible-2012
Director: J.A. Bayona
Cinematographer: Oscar Faura
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:12:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012
Director: RZA
Cinematographer: Chi-Ying Chan
On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cloverfield-2008 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:04:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cloverfield-2008
Director: Matt Reeves
Cinematographer: Michael Bonvillain
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tooth-fairy-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:41:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tooth-fairy-2010
Director: Michael Lembeck
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/twilight-2-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:40:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/twilight-2-2008
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cinematographer: Elliot Davis
Bella Swan moves to Forks and encounters Edward Cullen, a gorgeous boy with a secret. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/silent-hill-revelation-3d-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:39:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/silent-hill-revelation-3d-2012
Director: M.J. Bassett
Cinematographer: Maxime Alexandre
When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/final-destination-5-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:44:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/final-destination-5-2011
Director: Steven Quale
Cinematographer: Brian Pearson
Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:28:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011
Director: Joe Johnston
Cinematographer: Shelly Johnson
Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist organization. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:06:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-2011
Director: Bill Condon
Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro
The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people of Forks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:06:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2010
Director: Samuel Bayer
Cinematographer: Jeff Cutter
The spectre of a dead child rapist haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/district-9-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:55:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/district-9-2009
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
An extraterrestrial race, forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth, suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/postcards-from-the-future-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:55:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/postcards-from-the-future-2007
Director: Alan Chan
Cinematographer: Eric Adkins
Civilian electrical engineer Sean Everman sends 'video postcards' to his wife on Earth as he works to build up NASA's Moonbase. Over time, these postcards from our possible future reveal details of our renewed quest for space exploration. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/journey-2-the-mysterious-island-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/journey-2-the-mysterious-island-2012
Director: Brad Peyton
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/drag-me-to-hell-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:16:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/drag-me-to-hell-2009
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Peter Deming
A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/speed-racer-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:14:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/speed-racer-2008
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/zombieland-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:47:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zombieland-2009
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cinematographer: Michael Bonvillain
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/young-adult-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:48:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/young-adult-2011
Director: Jason Reitman
Cinematographer: Eric Steelberg
Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/red-tails-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:31:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/red-tails-2012
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Cinematographer: John B. Aronson
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:56:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-2005
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/argo-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:56:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/argo-2012
Director: Ben Affleck
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:32:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-2012
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/looper-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:29:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/looper-2012
Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/yogi-bear-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:58:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/yogi-bear-2010
Director: Eric Brevig
Cinematographer: Peter James
A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/10000-bc-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:45:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/10000-bc-2008
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Ueli Steiger
In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who becomes with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wrath-of-the-titans-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:17:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wrath-of-the-titans-2012
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:14:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008
Director: Mark Waters
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/man-on-a-ledge-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:07:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/man-on-a-ledge-2012
Director: Asger Leth
Cinematographer: Paul Cameron
As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mlyn-i-krzyz-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:05:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mlyn-i-krzyz-2011
Director: Lech Majewski
Cinematographer: Lech Majewski, Adam Sikora
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/zookeeper-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:54:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zookeeper-2011
Director: Frank Coraci
Cinematographer: Michael Barrett
A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper find love, without opting to leave his current job for something more illustrious. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cosmopolis-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:53:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cosmopolis-2012
Director: David Cronenberg
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jumper-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:54:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jumper-2008
Director: Doug Liman
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
A teenager with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunger-games-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:53:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunger-games-2012
Director: Gary Ross
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/water-for-elephants-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:44:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/water-for-elephants-2011
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dark-shadows-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:40:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dark-shadows-2012
Director: Tim Burton
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alvin-and-the-chipmunks-chipwrecked-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:56:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alvin-and-the-chipmunks-chipwrecked-2011
Director: Mike Mitchell
Cinematographer: Thomas E. Ackerman
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-three-musketeers-2-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:50:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-three-musketeers-2-2011
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cinematographer: Glen MacPherson
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-final-destination-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:04:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-final-destination-2009
Director: David R. Ellis
Cinematographer: Glen MacPherson
After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-carter-2012 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:59:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-carter-2012
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior. ]]>