Rob sits down with Louisa, a virtual production supervisor whose career runs from being the first VP hire at DNEG through House of the Dragon at Leavesden to the biggest LED volume in the world in NantStudios, Australia. They dig into what it actually takes to shoot on a 12-metre stage where full houses with running water and two-storey barns get built inside the volume — and why, at that scale, the classic VP headaches like depth of field and parallax quietly disappear.The conversation gets into the craft: the shift from Unreal Engine environments toward as-much-photographic-as-possible backdrops, the 2.5D vs full-3D debate, and the minimalist VFX-style approach of building only what the camera will actually see. Louisa is refreshingly honest about the human side too — how you win over experienced cinematographers and DOPs by going on a discovery process with them rather than dragging them away from their craft, and where the decision to 'go VP' actually gets made on a production.They close on the big shifts reshaping everything: AI as a productivity tool rather than a threat, one-button VP demos, the bridge between AI-generated concepts and real production budgets, and how influencers, podcasts and traditional film-and-TP are all merging into one messy new frontier. Plus high-vis on film sets, floppy disks, and skating to where the puck is going.Chapters

  • ​0:00 Solo setup and recording paranoia
  • ​0:50 Why does everyone wear black on film sets?
  • ​2:41 Meet Louisa: DNEG, Lux Machina and Australia
  • ​2:56 The VP journey: pre-volume days to The Mandalorian
  • ​3:56 House of the Dragon and reflections that give VP away
  • ​5:02 Image-based lighting and back screen projection
  • ​7:05 The world's biggest LED volume: 12 metres and giant sets
  • ​8:48 Parallax, 2.5D and the minimalist VFX approach
  • ​12:00 Photographic vs Unreal: marrying set and screen
  • ​13:51 Winning over DOPs and where the VP decision is made
  • ​20:05 AI as a productivity tool and one-button VP demos
  • ​32:15 AI concepts vs real budgets; rebuilding sets from AI
  • ​33:27 Shifting sands: cinema, podcasts and new frontiers
  • ​36:21 Influencers, brands and the new star ecosystem
  • ​40:00 Big screens vs small, IBC and a film that made the team cry

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