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00:03 >> The Blue Angels represent the best of the best of the Navy.
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00:08 >> I'm used to doing films that have special effects and you plan these moves,
00:12 and it's cool, but it's not real.
00:15 What these pilots do, it's real, there are no second chances.
00:19 It is truly a life and death demonstration.
00:22 >> What makes this documentary different than seeing it from the ground is,
00:26 you're not here, you're in it.
00:28 >> You'll get to be in the cockpit watching them from behind,
00:30 chasing them underneath the planes, being upside down.
00:33 We're right there with them.
00:35 >> Stay focused, it's game on time.
00:37 [MUSIC]
00:39 >> There's a lot of consideration that went into how to shoot the Blue Angels in
00:42 ways you've never seen them before.
00:44 >> On a project like this, you just don't get a take two.
00:47 We could never ask them to do a flight demonstration without that being part of
00:51 their regular practice schedule or demo.
00:53 >> They fly when they fly, and we had to figure out how to capture it.
00:58 >> Everybody's lives are in each other's hands.
01:00 >> The maneuver where the F-18 are 12 inches apart, it's called the Yankee set.
01:03 >> You can't even believe how close they are coming together.
01:06 >> It's an incredible thing to see, and especially in this MX format.
01:10 >> There are moments the world will slow down for just a couple seconds.
01:13 >> We just come off of Top Gun Maverick and
01:18 became known for dynamic high action jet aerial work.
01:21 [SOUND]
01:23 >> Never in the history of motion picture aviation has a civilian camera
01:27 helicopter been approved to be inside the Blue Angel demonstration.
01:31 >> We were shooting for IMAX, and so
01:33 the special rig needed to be used to mount the cameras.
01:35 We used the Sony Venice 2 cameras and high speed Phantom cameras.
01:38 >> We came up with this idea,
01:40 wouldn't it be really cool to see these jets at 1,000 frames a second?
01:45 >> To let people live in that little moment that usually is a flash and
01:48 let them just experience the awe and power of these machines.
01:52 [MUSIC]
01:55 >> I really feel so proud of this documentary because I get to put the real
01:59 heroes on screen.
02:00 [MUSIC]
02:01 >> It's the closest I think any of us will come to being in a cockpit with
02:05 these pilots.
02:05 It's just a remarkable thing to see.
02:07 [MUSIC]
02:09 >> If we can make audiences feel what it's like to be a Blue Angel,
02:12 it's gonna be a hell of a ride.
02:13 [MUSIC]