‘The Search’- our second brand film for RMA- brought together Collider duo Dylan Duclos and Andrew van der Westhuyzen to create a conceptual exploration of the inspiration behind RMA’s architectural practice.

 Set on Sydney’s unique sandstone coastlines and cliffs, ‘The Search’ invokes the power of nature as a source of inspiration, while offsetting the natural wilderness against the sanctuary of architectural space.

 Some of the moments in the film needed to feel like they sat on the boundary between fiction and reality. To achieve these otherworldly moments, the Collider studio team created a number of augmented digital set pieces that helped form the story. Natural coastal rock formations were digitally recorded and rebuilt in CG to allow for subtle alteration and augmentation to enhance the story.

 The studio explored the latest 3D photogrammetry techniques to augment some spectacular natural scenery with the lightest touch of hyper-realism. Photogrammetry data was captured on site during the shoot days and used later to add to shot plate footage or create entirely new scenes that helped the flow of the film. All the scenes in the film were shot on location in Sydney (with the exception of some footage shot in Perth by Rick Rifici) or have actual elements from locations repurposed within them.

Substantial amounts of time, testing and refining, gave each visual challenge the space it needed to create something engaging and beautiful.