Recreating Steven Spielberg’s “Oner” from Minority Report | Big vs Low Budget

I have teamed up with Armando Ferreira and Rubidium Wu so we can recreate a scene from Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report.

The scene that we are recreating is where Tom Cruise’s character rushes into an elevator to escape but then is confronted by Colin Farrell. The best part about this scene is that it’s all done in one long take. No cutting. The scene starts in a tracking motion with Tom Cruise as he’s running then it stops on a medium side shot of Tom then when Colin enters the elevator it switches to a medium two shot. Once Tom pushes Colin against the elevator wall it switches to an over the shoulder type of shot looking at Colin. This one long take is something that Steven Spielberg does in a lot of his films. Personally I think if there is no need to cut then it’s better to do it all in one take. It makes the scene and the performances that much more natural.

To achieve this scene we shot on a sound stage in Los Angeles where there were several different sets built and one of them was a hospital that had an elevator. For the gear we used several lights from Intellytech along with 2 different Canon cameras and DJI gimbals.

Here are the Intellytech lights that we used:

LiteCloth LC-160 2 x 2′ https://bhpho.to/2GCOwh4
Two-Light Frame For LiteCloths https://bhpho.to/2GAMi1R
LiteCloth LC-120 1 x 3′ https://bhpho.to/2GykUl7
Light Cannon PRO LED Fresnel http://bit.ly/2ZrRU7c

Here are the cameras we used:

Canon C200
B&H https://goo.gl/F55dOL
Adorama https://goo.gl/8LlEcH
Amazon https://amzn.to/2DASxSA

Canon EOS-R
B&H https://bhpho.to/2GzzEQG
Adorama https://adorama.evyy.net/vmaJd
Amazon https://amzn.to/2LcumAq

Here are the stabilizers we used:

DJI Ronin 2
B&H https://bhpho.to/2Gxupkr
Amazon https://amzn.to/2IX1fhB
Adorama https://adorama.evyy.net/9qY0W

DJI Ronin-S
B&H https://bhpho.to/2zY8umy
Amazon https://amzn.to/2DtZTJe
Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2Qv3gTc
Amazon Germany https://amzn.to/2z0VMk6
Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/2DswSO9
Adorama http://bit.ly/2QrWYUbeBay
https://ebay.to/2zE5Tuz

Ready Rig
B&H https://goo.gl/8RfX6n
Adorama https://goo.gl/zyWd2a

Here is the wireless video & follow focus we used:

CINEGEARS Ghost-Eye 600M
Amazon https://amzn.to/2zEfrqV
B&H https://bhpho.to/2iUjLJ9
eBay https://ebay.to/2N99gP4

Wireless follow focus system
Amazon http://amzn.to/1UTqpLI
BH Photo http://bhpho.to/1UnV180
Cinegears website http://bit.ly/1WS1wn5

Check out the other videos about this project on Rubidium’s Crimson Engine YouTube channel

Also on Armando Ferreira’s Mondo Bytes YouTube Channel

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