Objective: The customer is a fan of the TV series Billions, so it was decided to create a scene that is close to the image of the series. The acting characters should be some of the main characters of the original story.TV series plot: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Chuck Roades (Giamatti) goes after hedge fund manager and popular philanthropist Bobby «Axe» Axelrod (Lewis). A collision course, with each using all of their considerable smarts and influence to outmaneuver the other, looms.
Work Stages:1. Pre-production
— script creation
— casting
— deepfake previews on online audition tapes
— storyboarding
— location scouting
— finding and preparing props
— organizing a shooting shift2. Production— gathering visual images of the actors (makeup, hairstyles, clothes, accessories)
— preparation of location and filming equipment
— rehearsal
— storyboard shooting
— filming of cleanplates for VFX graphics3. Post-production— rough editing
— VFX — replacing the background behind the window
— clean up
— sound design
— deepfake training
— deepfake compositing
— color correction
— sound design
— voice dubbing (Yulia Cherkasova, Ivan Kalinin)
— neurosound in English
— final editing
location vfx
This Manhattan backdrop was generated with AI (Midjourney) to save the mood and color of the original shot.
ORIGINAL VS DEEPFAKE
Due to the limitations of showing the full plot of the video, we will show a small selection of shots from the final video.
Producer: Nikolenko Nikolay
Art-manager: Koval Maria
Director: Victor Zibarev
