RenderedJustice

"Rendered Justice" is a faux trailer — a detective from the future that never existed, made by students who'd just learned how to fake one. This is the final project from my XR Studio Production class. The goal wasn't to make a film; it was to put every fundamental of virtual production on the same project at the same time and see what holds. Unreal Engine for the world-building, an LED volume for in-camera environments, lighting that has to match between virtual and physical sources, camera work that respects parallax and frustum, and an edit that pulls all of it together into something that reads as a real piece. Trailers are the perfect format for a class like this. Short. Genre-driven. They demand a few hero shots to be excellent and the rest to feel inevitable around them. Students get to make every kind of decision — story, world, light, lens, cut — at a scale they can actually finish. The students did the work. I built the runway. WHAT YOU'RE WATCHING Faux trailer for a futuristic detective drama that doesn't exist, produced end-to-end on a virtual production stage as the capstone project for the XR Studio Production class at the University of Cincinnati's Media Production Department. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES Unreal Engine · LED volume / virtual production · in-camera VFX · cinematography for VP · color & edit in DaVinci Resolve · Touchdesigner VFX CREDITS Joseph Maiocco - Executive Producer, Professor Carmen Everson - Camera, Lighting Aiden Harbaum - Detective, Producer Noah Main - Unreal Artist, Lighting Santiago Medellin - AI Johnny, Producer Dana Miller - Lighting, Camera, Unreal Artist Joel Mobley - Lighting, Camera Ian Parrish - Unreal Artist, Touchdesigner Brookelynn Perkins - Production Coordinator, Camera Gabe Peters - Lead Unreal Artist Will Rider - Camera, Music Wyatt Rose - Storyboard Previs, Editor Alaina Scholl - Lighting, Camera Tino Sosa - Camera, Editor Griffin Tierney - Assistant Director, Production Coordinator Daion Walker - Camera, Lighting, BTS Photos ABOUT THE CLASS This course offers a unique opportunity to explore the cutting edge of digital media production, empowering students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in an increasingly virtual world. ABOUT ME I'm Joseph Maiocco — creative technologist, editor, and compositor at JFMIV.CO. I teach because I'm genuinely interested in what happens when you put real production tools in the hands of people who haven't yet learned what they're "supposed" to be afraid of. Site: https://jfmiv.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeymaiocco/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jfmiv.co/ #VirtualProduction #UnrealEngine #InCameraVFX #XR #FilmEducation #FauxTrailer #LEDVolume #FilmSchool