Le Grand Chapiteau: Télémajik

“Behind the Scenes of Journey of Man” is a six minute long featurette with interviews, discussions about the logistics of filming Cirque in IMAX, off-camera silliness, and peeks into the various acts filmed for the movie. The featurette also includes brief interviews with actors and production crew. Peter Wagg, the producer and co-writer of the film, states that the IMAX production team is trying to "raise the bar" of IMAX in order to draw more attention to large-format filmmaking and Cirque du Soleil was the best way to do that. Brian Dewhurst (the Old Man) states that he thinks the large format "brings the public right into the circus." Other people interviewed include the director Keith Melton; Reed Smoot, the director of Photography; Co-producers Antoine Compin and Chris Horton; Boris Verkhovsky, the Banquine coach; Warren Conley, the Bungee coach; project manager Andre Ducas; and cast members Chris van Wagenen (Youth) and Mikhail Matorin (Cube Man).

Three acts are highlighted in the featurette: Banquine, Bungees, and Cube Man. The Banquine segment explains how the performers have to work on a marble floor with no mats, and though this is dangerous for them, they ask for retake after retake when they are not satisfied with their performance. The act was partially restaged and re-choreographed from the Quidam original in order to "flow" better for the film. Other points of interest are clips of acrobats warming up and marking through tricky portions of the Banquine such as the towers and pyramids.

The Bungees segment is comparatively short. In it, those interviewed proclaim that it is the best version of the act they have seen, and how pleased they are that the acrobats are not limited by a ceiling. The props and scenery people set the scene by adding brush and moving plants, and bungee artists practice in full costume, makeup, baseball caps and fleece jackets. This segment is the disappointment of the featurette because nothing is said about how the bungee cords are rigged into the redwoods, or what sort of work is going into the scene.

The last segment is the Cube Man, Mikhail Matorin. In the middle of the night, in the middle of the desert, Matorin is preparing to fly toward and over the large camera--only the wind is too strong. Chris Van Wagenen and Brian Felton explain how everyone is at the mercy of Nature and can only wait. "Why do something easy when you can do something difficult?"