9. 3-D Phantom Camera Technology
Besides renting the Elizabethan mansion, paying highest-paid cast, and bringing some vintage cars on the road, what else the hundred millions of budget is for? Film making technology.
One of the obvious reasons why Brian Singer is a great director is the way he produces awesome scenes up on the big screen. He does that with some sophisticated technologies in film industry, including the 3-D Phantom Camera.
To produce Quicksilver’s mega scene as he saved people from the blown up X-Mansion, Brian Singer took more than three months. It is such a hard work for a three-minute scene.
This high speed video camera creates high quality of super slow motion clips. One unit of this Vision Research’s masterpiece alone can cost up to $150,000.
