VFX Supervisors Sue Land and Jack George supported on the shoot; helping to scout locations, plan key sequences and use REALTIME’s new proprietary virtual production tool to help the crew “see” digital elements on set. The tool was developed alongside the show, with funding from Greater Manchester’s Media City Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub.
REALTIME provided invisible FX work to help portray the scope of the disaster through several scenes in the opening episodes, including the foreboding ‘coffee cup’ sequence. In this sequence, the audience sees a teaspoon landing on the roof of a police car, signaling the start of the plane’s descent over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Around seventy-five percent of the series’ visual effects were crafted for episode one.
The series averaged 1.7 million views per episode on Sky Atlantic.
