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London directing collective Conkerco and Moving Picture Company combine forces to create a brooding and dreamlike vision of the children’s rhyme See Saw, Marjorie Daw. “The concept of the earth being rocked back and forth by a girl on a seesaw was the beginning point,” says Conkerco. “But we didn’t want the viewer to experience the film as a voyeur, we wanted them to feel like they had been on the ride with the city’s occupants.

One of the toughest aspects was creating continuity between the live action shots and CG. Nearly 40% of all the shots
didn’t exist in the original rushes. These had to be created from a combination of HD footage, digital stills, matte paintings and CG. “A huge amount of time was also spent digitally recreating areas of London, and grading all non-film elements to appear like 35mm. This enabled us to use MPC ’s motion capture and crowd replication skills to create realistic flows of people through the streets.”

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