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White House Down is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt. In the film, a divorced US Capitol Police officer attempts to rescue both his daughter and the President of the United States when a destructive terrorist assault occurs in the White House. The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Joey King, and James Woods.
Released on June 28, 2013, by Sony Pictures Releasing, White House Down received mixed reviews from critics with criticism going towards the screenwriting and the clichd storyline, although the performances and action sequences were praised. The film grossed over $205 million worldwide at the box office, against a budget of $150 million. White House Down was one of two films released in 2013 that dealt with a terrorist attack on the White House; the other, Olympus Has Fallen, was released three months earlier.
U.S. President James Sawyer makes a controversial proposal to sign a peace agreement with other nations to remove military forces from the Middle East. Divorced John Cale works as a Capitol Police officer assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, whose nephew he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Cale hopes to impress his daughter Emily by interviewing for the Secret Service, getting tickets for them to tour the White House. His interviewer, Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Carol Finnerty, a college acquaintance, deems him unqualified for the job.
A bomb is detonated in the United States Capitol, sending Washington, D.C. into lockdown. Finnerty escorts Raphelson to an underground command center in the Pentagon, while Vice President Alvin Hammond is taken aboard Air Force One. A paramilitary team led by ex-Delta Force operative Emil Stenz infiltrates the White House, kills the Secret Service, and seizes the building. The tour group is taken hostage in the Blue Room by white nationalist Carl Killick, but Cale escapes to search for Emily, who was separated during the tour. Retiring Head of Presidential Detail Martin Walker brings Sawyer to the PEOC beneath the White House Library. Inside, Walker kills Sawyer's detail, revealing himself as the leader of the attack, apparently seeking vengeance against Sawyer for a botched mission in Iran that killed his Marine son the year prior. Cale kills a mercenary, taking his weapon and radio, and rescues Sawyer after overhearing Walker.
Walker brings in ex-NSA analyst Skip Tyler to hack the PEOC's defense system but requires Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. Killick catches Emily filming the intruders on her phone and takes her hostage. Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure via a scrambled satellite phone in the residence and try to escape via a secret tunnel but find the exit rigged with explosives. They escape in the presidential limo but are chased by Stenz and crash into the White House pool. With Sawyer and Cale presumed dead in an explosion in the cabana, the 25th Amendment is invoked; Hammond is sworn in as president. Cale and Sawyer, still alive, learn Hammond has ordered an aerial incursion to retake the White House, but the mercenaries shoot down the helicopters with Javelin missiles. Learning Emily's identity from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Hacking into NORAD, Tyler launches a laser-guided missile at Air Force One from Piketon, Ohio, killing Hammond and everyone on board. Raphelson is thus sworn in as president and orders an airstrike on the White House.
Sawyer surrenders himself to save Emily. Walker, blaming Iran for his son's death, demands Sawyer use the football to launch nuclear missiles against various Iranian cities. Cale sets fire to several rooms as a diversion. Tyler inadvertently triggers the tunnel explosives and is vaporized. Cale kills most of the mercenaries and frees the hostages, one of whom bludgeons Killick. He fights Stenz and blows him up with a grenade belt. Sawyer attacks Walker, but in the fight, Walker uses Sawyer's handprint to activate the football and shoots Sawyer. Before Walker can finally launch the missiles, Cale crashes a reinforced Chevrolet Suburban into the Oval Office and kills him with the car's mini-gun. Emily runs outside and waves off the incoming fighter planes with a presidential flag, calling off the air strike. Sawyer survives thanks to a pocket watch once belonging to Abraham Lincoln that stopped Walker's bullet.
White House Down is directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt, who is also one of the film's producers. Sony Pictures purchased Vanderbilt's spec script in March 2012 for $3 million, in what The Hollywood Reporter called "one of the biggest spec sales in quite a while". The journal said the script was similar "tonally and thematically" to the films Die Hard (1988) and Air Force One (1997).[14] In the following April, Sony hired Roland Emmerich as director.[15] Emmerich began filming in July 2012 at the La Cit Du Cinma in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[16] Cinematographer Anna Foerster shot the film with Arri Alexa Plus digital cameras.[17]
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What is your background?
Since I was a kid I was fascinated by sci-fi and fantasy worlds and when PCs became powerful enough to render 3D graphics, I realized that this might be a way for me to make such worlds come alive, so I started to teach myself some very basics of CG. In 1997 I began as a 3D generalist trainee at Scanline VFX. Since our team was very small during this time, common practice was that an artist did a shot from start to finish, so I learned all aspects of a vfx shot from matchmove to the final comp. At around 2001 I started to do set supervising, shortly after that I became VFX Supervisor at Scanline VFX.
What was his approach about the visual effects?
One aspect I really liked was that he wanted to have a clean and crunchy image, so no excessive glows, lens flares or any other lens effects.
How was the collaboration with Production VFX Supervisors Volker Engel and Marc Weigert?
Great, they always gave us precise instructions on what was important to them and Roland, and they were open to our ideas, so we could really contribute to the shots.
What have you done on this show?
We did 9 complex full CG shots, 3 shots in the sequence where the presidential limousine is chased on the white house grounds, and 6 shots with the Air Force One lifting off Andrews Air Force Base and later getting shot down by a Surface to Air Missile.
How did you approach the impressive shot on the limo splash?
We started with a previz, there were two key moments that had to be staged. The Limo crashing through the trees and the splash when the Limo hits the pool water, which should cover the camera in the end of the shot.
The Trees were created, according to set references, with a controllable hierarchy. After we ingested that hierarchy into Thinking Particles, we were then able to control what parts of the tree should just bend and what should get ripped off from the main trunk down to the leaves. This was then done with several simulation passes for different parts of the tree hierarchy, that were dependent on each other.
To fill the shot up, debris from the RPG explosion was simulated that would interact with the trees, the limo, the pool furniture and the pool water. The Pool furniture gets also kicked away by the limo ,this was first roughly simulated and, based on that, key frame animated.
Can you explain in details about the creation of the limo and the environment?
We received the limo model from Prime Focus. Since their model was for wide shots only, we remodeled the front and the back and added destruction that should be visible in our shots. For the environment we received the White House and the White House grounds from Method Studios. The environment directly surrounding the the pool area had to be build by us with references from the set provided by the production.
Can you tell us more about the clouds creation?
In the beginning we planned to do the clouds as a layered matte-painting, but getting footage with the right perspective and lighting turned out to be quite difficult. Our FX guys did some test renderings with volumetric clouds created with Flowline, those looked so promising that we instantly switched to creating all the clouds with this technique.?We were then in full control of the lighting and structure of the clouds, and also the rendering was surprisingly fast.