Oral B had teamed up with Lucas films do make a set of Star Wars themed adverts. I was brought in to composite a scene onto a desert-like planet with three suns. As I was going to be doing the post, it made sense for me to be on set for the green screen shoot, my good friend Louie was the DOP and had lit this wonderful thee sun warm backlighting, we shot in 4.6K Raw to give us the most flexibility in post.
This is where it gets interesting. I composited a desert with three suns, particle effects for sand, a fight scene with 3D rendered aircraft behind them.. this was no small job. However, upon approval from Lucas films, we found out that the desert planet in question was lo longer going to be in the new film. As a result, we would have to have another background.
Having shot the scene with a heavy very warm backlight, we had a little bit of an issue. Exasperated by the fact that the two actors were now unavailable for a reshoot. So it was on my to grade out the colour from the backlights and remove the hard highlights on the actors coming from the additional light sources.
The result is less than ideal but works never the less.
