The drum solo was a mixture of Miles Teller’s reside drumming, pre-recorded drumming, and drumming ADR, often layered on prime of one another in order that, at instances, you are listening to one thing that editor Tom Cross as soon as advised IndieWire was “bodily unimaginable.” Realism apart, Damien Chazelle knew the shot choice wanted to reflect the depth of the solo, with Cross highlighting how the director “needed the music scenes to be like struggle scenes: violent and brutal.”

With solely 19 days to movie the complete film, Chazelle wanted to be ready, and created an in depth storyboard for the ultimate solo, which he become an animatic — storyboard frames edited right into a video timeline with a tough soundtrack. After capturing a grasp shot of the solo, the director had Teller and his doubles play numerous elements once more to seize all of the cutaways and closeups, utilizing his storyboard as a information. As he advised Collider in 2014:

“I knew, ‘Okay, Miles, we’ll do measures 16 to 18 proper now. Okay, lower. Now we’ll go to the cymbal and do the coda of the track. Okay, now we’ll do the bridge twice by means of from this decrease angle.’ We performed it out that means. I bear in mind the actual trick with the solo, each for J.Okay. and for Miles, was continuity, as a result of we solely had extras as viewers members within the theater for six hours, so all the things pointed in that route needed to be completed without delay.”

You’ll be able to’t argue with the consequence, however it was a grueling course of to shoot. As Teller recalled it, “We did 140 set-ups which is unbelievable, I imply ‘Implausible 4,’ ‘Rebel,’ you are doing like 10, 12 setups a day, and on that film we did like 140 at some point, which was insane.”