We knew that we wanted this film to have an 80s futurist aesthetic. Because we had such a specific vision for the film we knew we would be building our main location, the convenience store, in the studio. When brainstorming ways to achieve this is occurred to us that since this was already going to be a game it made a lot of sense for us to use virtual production for this set. Virtual production is a sort of in camera VFX that is often done using game engines, in our case Epic Games Unreal Engine. The 3D environment we built was back projected behind the set and the in game camera was synced to the real life camera, giving a perception of depth that does not exist. We designed this virtual background and the real life foreground simultaneously in order to have the smoothest transition possible between real life and virtual.