The trick is not that they shot on tape formats. It is that they bypassed the tape entirely, took the clean signal off the camera head, and then fought the whole pipeline to keep it interlaced.
A car-crash sequence written for dawn had to happen at dusk instead. Rather than cheat it, they reversed the shooting order and chased the blue hour down.
Edgar Wright blocked a near-continuous take by filming rehearsals on his iPhone and handing the footage to the Steadicam operator. One shoot day, plus a pre-light day for soft rehearsals.
A rare published breakdown of which stock went where, and an honest note that only parts of the video are Super 8 at all.
Post workflows, animation labour and the tricks that only exist because somebody had no money. Every figure here was stated by the person who spent it.
