Prime Focus achieves VFX for Murder 2

Well Sequence The sequence where Sulagna Panigrahi tries to escape from an unused well was augmented through visual effects. To make the well deeper, the team created digital set extensions that made it look even more treacherous, Read More">additional clean night exterior plates were added along with the set extensions to create a sense of darknessRead More

Well Sequence
The sequence where Sulagna Panigrahi tries to escape from an unused well was augmented through visual effects. To make the well deeper, the team created digital set extensions that made it look even more treacherous, additional clean night exterior plates were added along with the set extensions to create a sense of darkness that's fallen on screen. In the well scene, Sulagna stumbles across a lighter which she uses to help find her way out but while filming the scene, the lighter on set could not generate enough light to illuminate her path. With its requirement, a tiny bulb was glued to her hand which was cleaned up in the post-production process. When Sulagna pulls herself to safety out of the well by climbing up a cluster of dry creepers, the creepers were in fact mixed with a set of strong wires that could support the actress's weight, this was removed in post-production phase as well.

Additional Post-production work Prime Focus also worked on the blood splattered title sequence for the film, Read More">the sequence also features wire removals that suspended Yana Gupta in the introductory song sequence. The sign board of the hostel which read ‘Panjim Girl’s Hostel’ was replaced digitally as well a wooden sign board was made using MayaRead More

Additional Post-production work
Prime Focus also worked on the blood splattered title sequence for the film, the sequence also features wire removals that suspended Yana Gupta in the introductory song sequence. The sign board of the hostel which read 'Panjim Girl's Hostel' was replaced digitally as well a wooden sign board was made using Maya software that was modeled, textured and lit before being composited with a 3D camera track. The team also fitted picture-in-picture effects for the fictionalized news-room shots that were crucial in narrating the story.

Digital Intermediate The DI process of a film enhances the colour and makes each frame flow rhythmically. The film was shot completely on Arri’s ALEXA digital camera, Read More">with which many sequences in the film was shot using available light on set. The DI team used custom made ‘look up tables’ better known as LUTs thatRead More

Digital Intermediate
The DI process of a film enhances the colour and makes each frame flow rhythmically. The film was shot completely on Arri's ALEXA digital camera, with which many sequences in the film was shot using available light on set. The DI team used custom made 'look up tables' better known as LUTs that is basically, a colouring facet of the digital intermediate process. This creates a system that permits, more latitude and details particularly in the shadows and highlights regions of the film which ensures better picture quality. The film was either shot early in the morning or early in the evening, Rohan Desai was the DI colorist who worked on these sequences to give it a unique, rich golden-brown look. The colour schemes of the sequences were altered according to the intensity of the sensation in the situations. The house of the antagonist, Dheeraj Pandey and the police station was treated differently with the police station scene set with a greyish blue tone to it, while the antagonist's house was given a grungy brown tone to it to bring out the strangeness and the dreadfulness. Although the locations called for a darker grungier look, the team maintained a glossiness that would not alienate the mainstream viewers.

In layman terms post-production, the third most important phase in making movies, could more or less be thought of as either garnishing a dish, Read More">wrapping a gift or even painting a car. This phase in filmmaking ensures that the overall package has an eye-candy appeal to the finished product. Prime Focus has accomplished the VFXRead More

In layman terms post-production, the third most important phase in making movies, could more or less be thought of as either garnishing a dish, wrapping a gift or even painting a car. This phase in filmmaking ensures that the overall package has an eye-candy appeal to the finished product. Prime Focus has accomplished the VFX and post-production process of Mohit Suri's latest directorial venture, a dark crime thriller identified as Murder 2. Consequently rising from its successful prequel, Murder, the film tells the tale of a former cop who cuts out a deal with a local Goan gangster to find his missing prostitutes. The film has an ensemble cast starring Emraan Hashmi and Jacqueline Fernandez. Prime Focus has delivered over forty VFX shots for the film headed by Merzin Tavaria. Bollywood Hungama brings you a behind the scenes visual effects and post-production making of the crime-thriller, Murder 2.