Watch Kojima Productions staff act out Death Stranding scenes during production
The fourth anniversary of Kojima Productions is coming up (the studio officially opened on December 16 2015), and Kojima has been sharing some entertaining videos he and his team shot in preparation for the performance capture shoots. They act out the scene to visualize it and determine what props they need and how large the room needs to be.
The precious video from March 2016. I’ve been digging from archives as we’ll be celebrating the 4th anniversary on 12/16. While having few machines/staffs, we made this rough pre-visualizations to prep for upcoming Norman’s performance capture.Glove as 🦀 shooting guerilla style. pic.twitter.com/nRlSJANnIG
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The precious video from Aug 2016. When we finally found the office to rent with more staff. As there’s no hallway, kitchen or conference room we were able to shoot this image. Making this rough pre-visualization to prep for Mads’ performance capture. This was used for Mads’ ref. pic.twitter.com/joDxCBipHK
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The previous video from April 2017. We expanded our space and it became the scanning room but before we use this empty space for practicing camera directions & its constructions. Here we’re filming the scene of CDT encountering BT w/the box as BB Pod & Lud played the corpse role. pic.twitter.com/5QYz2tVaTG
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as well as the camera work. Based on this, we can expect how large room we need for the performance capture set, as well as large/‘small props. We also prepare for the CGI to be ready for the rehearsal and the shooting.
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Shooting simultaneously by putting markers on the camera for taking the performance capture is the usual step but we put markers on the handy camera instead for reference and used it at the shooting.
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Then we let the actors to act. Here, we exchange ideas on site and fix the final movements and then action!
Aside from the makeshift props and environments, it’s notable how close the scenes in this stage already are to their final results in terms of mise en scène and camera work. It shows how clear an image Kojima has in his head in the earliest phase of development.
