I'm Wes Ball, director of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” This is a small sequence at the beginning of the movie after our ape trio, Noa, Soona and Anaya, have just had a little adventure and are back in their village, where we know life. of Eagle Clan and where Noa and her family reside, this small isolated existence. And we can see how the apes live in this world with their eagles. And how this ritual of collecting their eggs, which they will raise as mates, is part of the way the Eagle Clan functions in their culture. And the goal was really just to create a world that was wonderful, that would ultimately be changed forever when the course of events leads to the village of Noa being attacked for the most part, everything you see here was actually filmed with the actors. We filmed it twice, we filmed it once with the actors and all their little acting details and the camera movement and everything. So we are filming a normal movie. It just turns out that these guys are wearing these kinds of weird outfits along with cameras and dots on their faces that capture the entire performance. And then I have to go in and re-duplicate those shots without the apes, which is where I choose. Any performance you choose is now included in the scene itself. So this isn't something where we just root for the characters after the fact. We're actually on location and they're there in their digital suits, essentially, representing everything you see on camera, with the exception of, say, the background action, there's a group of apes in the background playing whatever We call Monkey Ball. , and we did it all on stage. That's the beauty of the power of this process: we can populate this entire scene with hundreds of apes. But we only needed a handful of apes on set. This is Dar, Noa's mother, who is a fantastic character, played by Sara Wiseman, who did a great job. “I knew you would climb well.” “He waits.” And this Noa character here, you start to see the relationship that she has with her father, which is an interesting kind of relationship that I imagine a lot of people could relate to. They don't quite know how to communicate with each other, but obviously there's still love there. It's an interesting process where I can take all these different little elements, layer them and stack them into this; What you see here is the end result, this idyllic little community.
