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# Interstellar: Creating the Dust Storms in Calgary

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## Video: Interstellar: Creating the Dust Storms in Calgary

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_Published 2015-03-26. Interstellar: Creating the Dust Storms in Calgary_


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] At the farmhouse, we would, we'd work [ INAUDIBLE ] to where we were upwind, where it all worked in our favor, and we got the best effect we could. In the town, you couldn't just swap sides, or do some of the stuff we did at the farmhouse. It had to kinda come from one direction. So we just kinda worked our way into where we could get in between buildings at the end of the street. Anywhere we could. Kinda get a fan and keep plowing dust in there as much as we could. So it, it worked out pretty good. I mean, we got a lot [ UNKNOWN ] in there, a lot in camera. I have to say I completely underestimated how much dust we were gonna produce.

And on the day, I mean, the town was covered. And I went back two days later and there was not, you know, no pun intended, there was not a speck of dust. [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] So our cleanup crew was fantastic. It was pretty impressive. The more that we got rid of it that we were able to use it at all. Something like adjust time is very, very difficult to do with visual effects. The series of adjusts needed completely transforms the lighting environment and how the light reacts but to do something that actually really looks real and really fits in with the tone of. The rest of the film that you, you're struggling to, to give some, some reality to.

You really have to, to do them for real. I loved shooting in Calgary. I've never been there. I loved Canada. They did such an amazing job creating those dust storms and it felt like the world is ending. It was perfect. We create, everything has to be real and practical so you find yourself sometimes standing by a totally fake beautiful farmhouse in the middle of a completely fake massive cornfield in the middle of a totally fake dust storm and that's how you know you're on a Chris Nolan movie.

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