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Worth checking out interviews with the (now Oscar® winning) cinematographer Greig Fraser.
The scene with the Sardaukar floating down into the abandoned science station was supposedly one of the more challenging shots:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8228w-XzV4
They could only shoot the scene between 10:31 and 10:53 so that the shadow is in the exact place that they wanted it. It was all natural lighting (the sun) because artificial lights (HMI) couldn't give them the look that they wanted.
Worth checking out interviews with the (now Oscar® winning) cinematographer Greig Fraser.
The scene with the Sardaukar floating down into the abandoned science station was supposedly one of the more challenging shots:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8228w-XzV4
They could only shoot the scene between 10:31 and 10:53 so that the shadow is in the exact place that they wanted it. It was all natural lighting (the sun) because artificial lights (HMI) couldn't give them the look that they wanted.