CoSTAR Realtime Lab
A launch film for Scotland’s new virtual production facility
Director’s cut coming soon
Client: CoSTAR Realtime Lab
Year: 2025
Location: Glenshee, Dundee
Format: Launch Film
Fort Film Services: Direction, cinematography, edit
The Brief
CoSTAR's Realtime Lab is Scotland's new virtual production facility — an LED-volume stage and real-time production environment based in Dundee, set up to support filmmakers, advertisers, games studios and academic researchers working with virtual production techniques. We were commissioned to produce a launch film introducing the facility and its ambitions to the wider Scottish creative sector.
The Approach
The film centres on a Highlands motorbike sequence — a piece of live-action storytelling that signals the kind of cinematic, location-led work the new facility exists to support.
Shot on cinema lenses with a small, mobile crew, the sequence was designed to feel like a piece of real filmmaking — the kind of work a director would arrive at the Realtime Lab wanting to make.
Director’s Cut Coming Soon
The director's cut of the launch film is in post-production and will appear here on release. In the meantime, stills above are taken from the live-action sequences shot for the project.
Credits
Director & Editor: Scott Dee
Cinematographer & Colourist: Alan McIlrath
Sound Recordist: Chris James Marr
Additional Camera: Michal Zagorski
Original Concept: CoSTAR Realtime Lab