Inside the Transportation Sequences from Barbie with Margot Robbie

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Here's your inside look at the transportation sequences from the romantic comedy movie Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig.  Barbie Cast:  Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Issa Rae and Scott Evans  Barbie is now playing in theaters!

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00:00 I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do now.

00:02 You have to go to the real world.

00:04 The transition between Barbie Land and the real world

00:06 is a series of transportation vehicles that get us there.

00:09 Kind of like in this 2D endless tracking shot.

00:12 Every time we shot one of those transportation sequences,

00:16 it was the most satisfying thing to watch.

00:18 It's not Barbie Land and it's not the real world,

00:20 and it had six different environments that Ken and Barbie travel through.

00:24 We get to camp and we get to be in space

00:26 and we get to be sailors and all these little things.

00:29 From space and time to land and Barbie Land.

00:32 None of it's CGI and it's just presentational as if you were watching a play.

00:36 It was using these old silent movie film techniques.

00:39 It looked like a Carl Zemman movie.

00:41 I settled on wanting it to look like a diorama in the Natural History Museum.

00:46 Each box contains a scene and I wanted them to sort of move through that scene

00:50 and then come out and then move through the next scene.

00:53 We looked at theatrical methods of making things work.

00:56 So the foreground goes very fast, then it goes slightly slower, slower.

01:00 It's all very flat in 2D, so you might have a boat that's moving while the water's moving.

01:07 And that's literally like our crew members pulling a rope like this

01:11 and putting little bits of cellophane on the water

01:14 to make it look like it's twinkling like water.

01:16 In this movie, I wanted to paint in big, beautiful, broad strokes

01:22 and build this crazy world.

01:24 It's something where I just want people to feel just joyful.

01:28 (upbeat music)

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