The Widow vs Widow fight is the most important work in my life! For #Intothebadlands season 3 I had to edit almost 40 fights in 10 month and usually I finished each fight sequences in between one week without sound design. But for this fight I decided to showcase my fully capable of action design filmmaking. So I spent 2-3 weeks with fully sound design with around 21 Audio layers. Brought me in lil trouble, big delay for the other fights 😅😅

I cannot thank action director and big brother Andy Cheng enough. He believed in my abilities and gave me SO MUCH creative freedom! He came up with amazing storytelling and asked for a stitched fake-one-take-montage from top to the floor. So I came up with the idea to use 3 operator for the first shot (what u can see in the video). Funny enough the drop didnt work in all takes. But for some reason the drop in the last try was actually pretty gentle.
So I asked for ONE MORE TIME and secretly told Chris Manger and Paul Clark, DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING, BUT LET THE WIRE GO AS SOON I GOT THE CAM!
CAM drops perfectly in my hands and i just said to myself „ MOFO RUUUN FOR UR LIFE, I NEED THE PASS!!!“
BAM! Everyone freaked out, so did I! 😱😱😱
Because my idea went well, I was allowed to operate the gimbal (finally).
Guys… u cannot imagine HOW MUCH pressure it was! Young german/asian boy who learnt filmmaking mostly from DIY was allowed to show how to shoot action…. I was fear sweating af….🥶🥶🥶

We didnt have any rehearsal nor preps day for this fight. Like Jackie Chan / HK film style, everything will be ON THE SHOOTING DAY! Choreography, camera work and rehearsals.

Especially I wasn’t sure if the whole stitching idea would work …😅
but I was confident enough to believe in my skill and experiences that I was prepared and willing to risk the chance!
After the shot, I RAN straight to the video station, grabbed the footage and tried to edit it together… WHAT A RELIEF it worked… 🤯🤯🤯

I was speechless… and i hope you too…

I know i repeat myself but I cannot thank you guys enough Daniel Wu Alfred Gough Miles Millar and Andy Cheng that you guys gave me the biggest opportunity in my life!!! Best experiences and I am super proud of our work at Into The Badlands AMC season 3!!!

BIG PROPS TO actress Emily Beach Ham for AMAZING performance
and of course BIGGEST BIGGEST BIGGEST props to Mickey Facchinello and Wang Qing Mei for the AMAZING fight performance!

PS: used my sound design for this clip XD






(I worked for the AMC TV show Into The Badlands Season 3 as the assistant action director, fight editor for the fight scenes and stuntdouble for one of the main character MK for 9 month.
Furthermore 2016 I worked as action designer for Jackie Chans latest movies „The Foreigner“ and „Bleeding Steel“ and joined as an official member the Jackie Chan Stunt Team. )



Action director : Andy Cheng
Fight Choreographer: Bao Liang
1. AD: Mikey Eberle
Fight Editor: Vi-Dan Tran
Avid Translater: Eoin McGuirk

Cast:
Emily Beecham - Widow / Raven


Stunt double:
Widow - Mickey Facchinello
Raven - Wang Qing Mei


Utility
Brian Le
Andy Long
Rashid Phoenix
Michael Bo Wei
Matt Lucas
Tom Rodgers
Raycho Vasilev
Law Pancel
Cali Nelle
Bo Wei
QingMei Wang


GO AND CHECK INTO THE BADLANDS SEASON 3 on AMC.COM or AMAZON PRIME VIDEO!




Contacts

Vi-Dan Tran
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4263148/