Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the truth.
Future Associate provided virtual production services for the production — delivering a 16K panoramic plate package shot on location in Victoria's You Yangs for LED stage playback.
/ Multiplate Stitch — You Yangs
The You Yangs Regional Park, located between Melbourne and Geelong in Victoria, is a striking landscape of ancient granite ridges rising abruptly from the surrounding volcanic plain — rocky, sparsely vegetated with eucalypts, and unmistakably Australian in character. It was the location chosen for the production's virtual production plate shoot, with a five-camera array mounted on an ATV driving at speed along a dirt track through this environment.
Each camera captured 4K footage simultaneously, shooting both forwards and backwards as the vehicle moved through several different sections of the park. Individual takes ran up to ninety seconds — meaning the total dataset across all angles and environments ran to thousands of frames, each of which needed to be processed before the package could be assembled.
The plates required stabilisation, horizontal and vertical alignment, lens distortion removal, perspective correction, and colour correction across all five sources before any blending could begin. Matching five separate camera perspectives into a single seamless image is a process that resists perfection — lens characteristics, minor positional differences and the physics of parallax all introduce variation that has to be managed rather than eliminated — but the goal was a stitch clean enough to read as a single continuous environment on the LED stage.
The final deliverable was a 16K panoramic video — a single continuous widescreen output designed for wraparound LED stage playback, providing the on-set environment behind the car during the studio shoot. The dataset was substantial, the timeline was fixed around a locked shoot date, and our team processed thousands of frames across multiple angles to deliver on time.