Deconstructing VFX of MKBKM : Bollywood News

Cessna Plane Crash

One of the longest sequences in the film was where Harry takes Matru on a night flight aboard a two person Cessna aircraft, where both doors were removed. Shooting this sequence posed many practical challenges where VFX played the most crucial and problem solving role. The live shots of the actors in the plane were shot separately on a black screen, with a small green screen behind the planes doors. We preferred to shoot this way rather than having an entirely green screen set-up to avoid troublesome green spills. In addition, to give a sense that it was floating, the camera was either hand-held or on a crane. We preferred this instead of rigging the camera to the plane, which would have given us shots that looked rather static and boring. Later on in post, these layers were composited over a night sky environment with clouds and the ground terrain with a few dim lights. This was entirely made as digital matte painted layers. We also added a CG propeller and did Cessna take-offs in CG, since airport did not allow us to fly in the night. In addition, various aerobatics were also executed as entire CG sequences. Towards the end of the scene, the planes propeller needed to ignite which resulted in a fire, making the burning Cessna smash through a billboard and crash into the wheat field. The majority of shots in this section were carried out through extensive CG the plane, the hoarding, the crash, the billboard with lights etc. We built a highly detailed Cessna model in CG, along with fire and smoke dynamics attached to it.