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Just watched "Two For The Road," the Lost episode where Ana Lucia drives Christian Shephard around Australia. She drives on the left side of the street and the steering wheel is on the right.
How'd they do this? I saw three possibilities. The first two were:
1) A rare case where they shot outside Hawaii, or
2) They imported (or had available) a car and drove it on the wrong side of the road.
But upon close inspection, I saw it was the third choice:
3) They reversed the shot.
If you look closely at the faces of Michelle Rodriguez and John Terry, you can see their right is left and left is right.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:22 AM
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The extra features on the official DVDs are all worth watching. They reveal some of these things, and it's amazing how easily they can do these now. In the mid-1990s, Babylon 5 was the only show doing CGI, and they didn't have the budget or technology to do things on this level.
But now they can process things essentially in real-time. Every time you see Sydney or Los Angeles outside of a glass window, it's not really there. On one of the extra features, they show "before" and "after" of Sayid walking down the sidewalk in Berlin. For about thirty feet, they put fake German signs on the Hawaiian sidewalk. Past that point, they simply have the computer replace the street with a real German street previously filmed.
I'm pretty sure they shot outside Hawaii in some cases. I'm not sure when, but some of the shots would be pretty impressive otherwise.
In the extras, they often say "we shoot almost everything in Hawaii". So there are a few exceptions. But given what they showed they could do with CGI on the extra features, I doubt they would need to do it much.
Of course, the stock footage they use for CGI does originally come from film of Sydney or Germany or whatever, but the Lost cast and crew have never done any filming in Australia or Germany or Iraq.
Thus, when Ajira 316 takes off, there's an establishing shot of LAX, but then there's a slightly closer view of the plane taking off, with gentle green hills behind it. The second shot was clearly not LAX.
There's a shot in the first season, a Sawyer flashback, that goes out of its way to show the Sydney Opera House. I wouldn't be surprised if they shot that in Australia.
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