Charlie Citron 
VIDEOGRAPHER

Mission: Impossible, Fallout, is the 6th film in the series. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, along with fellow returning cast members Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames. Christian Mcquirrie directs returning for a second consecutive time. The film had a large budget of $178,000,000 and made $791,107,538.  The MI series is often labeled as "The Cure for Green screen." Its magic lies in that all the stunts you see onscreen are not only real, but done by Tom Cruise himself. It seems every movie tests to see if it can outdo the prior. Fallout features skydiving, a Paris bike chase, and an impressive helicopter stunt. The two camera used on the shoot were the Arriflex 235 (Film 35 mm) and the RED Weapon. Using wide lenses such as the Panavision C and E series, this forms the standard action movie set-up. Watching behind-the-scenes, the most noticeable thing is the rigs built to mount the cameras on. In the sky diving scene, a RED is placed on top of the helmet of a sky diver. At one point you notice the lens moving, auto-focusing on Cruise. This means they can just roll and not worry about anything but the performance. However, it took them 106 to get the shot right. He had to slow himself to a speed where he would be 3 feet from the camera. Other rigs can be seen during the car chase. There are cranes built into the cars that swoop and follow Tom's bike, as well as two cameras mounted to his BMW for interior shots. There were also bikes mounted with cranes that followed tom through subways and tight spaces. There is no lighting outside of the natural light in any of these outdoor shots. In many of the behind the scenes, can you see a Boom running sound getting audio. Another thing to note, is Cruise's involvement with the director and DP. He verbally runs through every scene with them (extensively pre-planned) so they can nail each stunt. On big budget films such as this one, efficiency is money. Given the popularity of the places they had to shoot, most notably the Arc de Triumph, in which they were given 90 minutes to film. That means less than 30 to actually set up, 30 to actually roll, and then 30 to pack everything up, and get it out. All for one 10 second clip. Another stunt,cruise was tasked with hanging on to a helicopter as it ascended 1,200 feet into the air. For this he also needed to drop down the rope and land on a ball-type object (see video). He was wearing a thin wire with a harness, but outside of that nothing. The shots would be taken from the top of the rope and another helicopter rigged with gear. It took Cruise 3 months to learn to fly a helicopter. Not one green-screen can be seen in any scene throughout the entire video. Perhaps movies would be more popular if this was common practice.