Faced with a burning building and an armed attack outside, what would you do?

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A continuation of my work for the Security Control Room Operators course, this project was commissioned to add a multi-threat, highly complex ‘Fire As A Weapon’ element to the interactive training resource to really push the participants on the last day of the course and fully test all they have learnt. 

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Trying to find a location that would allow us to set it on fire, and not matter how controlled it was, proved to be very difficult, so instead we went a CG route. Using green screen and clever art department, we created an area of the location that can have the CG fire added to it. Then, after filming our 28 x 20 minute single take CCTV feeds, we rebuilt the location (this involved photomapping and creating a fully 360 photorealistic model) and added the fire and smoke FX using compositing, rotoscoping and 3D modelling. 

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By focusing on the same characters in the same situation, but with one significant change (the SCR making regular announcements) we were able to show how that one action by the SCR can really shape people’s responses and save lives. 

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Shot across three days, this involved filming multiple scenes at the same time, with slight variations and character action changes, in order to make the two divergent narratives.