Prime Focus VFX: The magic behind 8x10 Tasveer : Bollywood News

The Tasveer shot:

The most interesting part, if you have seen the movie, is the numerous times the Tasveer (the photograph of four guys) is shown. In reality this photograph is not real but a piece of chroma paper, which has been replaced later. The reason? In shots where Akshay holds the picture, lots of effects take action in the picture, which would have been tough if it would have been a hard copy.

Chroma has been used not only in shots involving vfx but also others. Explains Merzin, We wanted to maintain the look of the picture through out the movie. This helps us to make the production easy as when we actually use a hard copy of a picture a lot of light and glare comes on it which ruins the actual look of the image. When you are adding effects, it also becomes challenging to work on a hard copy and we can not get the desired out put. Also, for a technical reason, when you are shooting an image with extreme close-up, the camera might not capture an image properly which is at such an intense close-up as each lens has a minimum focus legth beyond which it cannot focus

Prime Focus' VFX: The magic behind 8x10 Tasveer