2012

2012 (Film)

2012 is a 2009 American science fiction disaster film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson, among others. The special effects are so real that one will not even notice the two hour forty minute period that they have spend watching the movie.

Every sequence in the movie begins as a storyboard, or a rough, comic book-like version of the film's action. This particular sequence, which depicts Curtis Jackson (John Cusack) rescuing his family and driving them to the Santa Monica airport.

After the storyboards are done, the artists move to a stage called the pre-visualization. "I describe it as an early form of a CG version of a sequence, with video-game quality [visuals]. A crude version of the action, pre-visualization includes every part of the scene, up to camera angles and early sound effects

Director Roland Emmerich shoots the limo against a massive blue screen in Vancouver, Canada. The shot, called a live action plate, looks like this before any virtual elements are added.