THE SLAP: OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

The outstanding creative team at Trollbäck + Company engaged Christopher Webb to help realize the opening sequence for NBC’s miniseries "The Slap", directed by Lisa Cholodenko, using in-camera visual effects. Interweaving lines of fate play out in macro images, forming the outline of a hand inspired by palmistry and NYC subway lines. The entire sequence was captured in-camera, adding motion and organic optical effects to animation at Chris’s studio. Chris and his team constructed a one-of-a-kind camera motion, projection, and animation optics rig that could be operated in real time and controlled via hydraulics and precision servo motors. This allowed the camera to move in almost any direction while photographing projected motion graphics through layers of glass and optical elements. Images of NYC were also layered in-camera using specialized miniature projection units and moving mirror rigs. The goal of Chris’s studio is to offer creatives unique practical methods for image making such as this. Creative Agency: Trollbäck + Company Creative Director: Elliott Chaffer Art Director: Joshua Lynne Cinematographer / VFX Technical Director: Christopher Webb Head of Production: Erica Schrager Executive Producer: Elyse Roth Editor: Jonah Oskow-Schoenbrod Animation: Paris Glickman, Adam Levine, Brandon Sugiyama Studio Manager: Graceann Dorse Camera Assistant: Tom Cryan Gaffer: Casey Wooden Key Grip: Brooks Lockwood Tabletop Rigging: Daniel Jusino

The outstanding creative team at Trollbäck + Company engaged Christopher Webb to help realize the opening sequence for NBC’s miniseries "The Slap", directed by Lisa Cholodenko, using in-camera visual effects. Interweaving lines of fate play out in macro images, forming the outline of a hand inspired by palmistry and NYC subway lines. The entire sequence was captured in-camera, adding motion and organic optical effects to animation at Chris’s studio. Chris and his team constructed a one-of-a-kind camera motion, projection, and animation optics rig that could be operated in real time and controlled via hydraulics and precision servo motors. This allowed the camera to move in almost any direction while photographing projected motion graphics through layers of glass and optical elements. Images of NYC were also layered in-camera using specialized miniature projection units and moving mirror rigs. The goal of Chris’s studio is to offer creatives unique practical methods for image making such as this. Creative Agency: Trollbäck + Company Creative Director: Elliott Chaffer Art Director: Joshua Lynne Cinematographer / VFX Technical Director: Christopher Webb Head of Production: Erica Schrager Executive Producer: Elyse Roth Editor: Jonah Oskow-Schoenbrod Animation: Paris Glickman, Adam Levine, Brandon Sugiyama Studio Manager: Graceann Dorse Camera Assistant: Tom Cryan Gaffer: Casey Wooden Key Grip: Brooks Lockwood Tabletop Rigging: Daniel Jusino