The airport in the film was built in a large hangar in California, and it took 200 craftsmen 20 weeks to complete it. The three-story building is an all-steel structure with a total of 60,000 square feet of granite floor. There are 4 electric escalators in the airport, and escalators are specially installed in the studio for filming.
Since the airport to be built must have its due function, every drawing completed by the art department must be carefully reviewed by a professional engineer, and even every simple solder joint cannot be ignored. In all the design work, the largest scale is the huge background outside the airport glass windows. The entire background is enclosed on three sides to create the night scene of the airport. A total of 2,000 miniature lamps are installed in the entire background. Use blue screen technology when the aircraft is approaching the terminal.
In order to create the effect of sunlight illuminating the terminal through the glass, the crew set up 100,000 watt lighting equipment on the steel beams above the studio. They will illuminate the reflective material covering the entire studio, and the reflected light will look like sunlight. field. In addition, photographer Kaminsky also used the color in the light to convey the changes in Victor's situation.
