«Billions» | Deepfake video

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Deepfake video “billions”

Objective: The customer is a fan of the TV series Billions, so it was decided to create a scene that is close to the image of the series. The acting characters should be some of the main characters of the original story.

TV series plot: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Chuck Roades (Giamatti) goes after hedge fund manager and popular philanthropist Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis). A collision course, with each using all of their considerable smarts and influence to outmaneuver the other, looms.

Work Stages:

1. Pre-production 

- script creation
- casting
- deepfake previews on online audition tapes

- storyboarding

- location scouting
- finding and preparing props
- organizing a shooting shift

2. Production

- gathering visual images of the actors (makeup, hairstyles, clothes, accessories)
- preparation of location and filming equipment
- rehearsal
- storyboard shooting
- filming of cleanplates for VFX graphics

3. Post-production

- rough editing
- VFX — replacing the background behind the window
- clean up
- sound design
- deepfake training
- deepfake compositing
- color correction
- sound design
- voice dubbing (Yulia Cherkasova, Ivan Kalinin)
- neurosound in English
- final editing