11/10/2026
All that tech and the Redback is still the best key light in the business, almost 10 years later! Talk about ROI!!!
Matchbox movie promo with John Cena for Apple. Check out the awesome rundown down from DP Tyler Henderson below.
Tyler Henderson “ We shot at Eyeline on their Light Dome, a first-of-its-kind multispectral stage.
I’ve shot on volumes before, but never like this. Beyond the LED wall itself, the dome has 1,600 LED lights surrounding the set. You pick an area of the dome and use it like a real source coming in to match the background of your shot.
For the background, we were given an on-set still of the garage from the movie and put it up on the wall. From past volume shoots, I knew foreground elements are what bring these shots to life. Martin and team knocked it out of the park with the foreground builds and the miniature set John used to play with the Matchbox cars.
The biggest challenge was matching the look. The background was a still from the movie with its own grade and contrast baked in, and our foreground had to feel like it lived in that same world. We shot RAW, but with a lot of clients on set, I knew they’d want to see something close to final on the monitors. Normally a DIT would handle that live with Livegrade, but we didn’t have one on this shoot. So I tweaked a LUT on set to match the color and contrast of the plate in camera. It got us there.
My gaffer escully and I lit John Cena the way we normally would, then used the dome to fill in the areas that needed to match. Worked beautifully.
Thank you to our crew and the whole team at Eyeline for helping pull this one off.”
Client: Apple TV
Director: Mike George
Executive Producer: Joshua Brandon Roth
Producer: jimmy ward
Production: Landon Jack Fogg
DP: Tyler Henderson
CamOp: Will DaRosa
1st AC: Adam Roenker
Media Manager/BTS: Connor Morgan
CLT: escully
Key Grips: BlueRockMediaCorp Tiara Olson
Swing: Remy Dixon
Art Director: Martin
Art: Nina Hughes Oscar Reyes Jamison Reeves
Sound Mixer: Mark Patino
Gear: R A R E B R E E D S
Location: Eyeline
