There's a reason The Mandalorian shoots on a sound stage entirely painted over by a video game graphics engine, Game of Thrones sets would typically be a staircase and a couple walls to drag and drop textures from and John Wick is entirely faked other than the choreography.


The "problem" is, just go watch something like the extraction scene from Proof of Life (random example I just re-watched this week lol), all filmed out in the open with natural light and using squibs and real gunfire for all the effects and MAN does it look visceral. As long as the timing and blocking is locked in it's pretty easy to create a convincing gunfight.


Whereas John Wick partially always takes place in super dark locations because it's easier to just dim all those CGI gun and blood effects than try and match the lighting with the scene.


They don't go into it in this breakdown of the Extraction extraction sequence, but I'm seen the director say elsewhere that having the one shot that's fired during this sequence happen just off screen as the camera pans toward it was only partially for suspense, but also it removed a really difficult CGI render from an already super difficult and really grounded sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwn0J2OVDG4


It seems anymore that when directors or cinematographers opt for real gunfire (has ANY movie used squibs in the last five years or have we just given up?) it's mostly an aesthetic choice. They'll accept the fake blood but they just can't handle hacking a whack muzzle flare. Unless you're Sons of Anarchy in which case just embrace chaos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17bKwWgGZs


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