telenous
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Too bad he couldn't convince Lucas not to put in stupid CG rodents! 😀
Agh! The only thing that was worse were the digitally created ants. And the jungle chase sequence. And nuking the fridge.
Too bad he couldn't convince Lucas not to put in stupid CG rodents! 😀
Agh! The only thing that was worse were the digitally created ants. And the jungle chase sequence. And nuking the fridge.
Unfortunately, though, Spielberg decided against doing the SFX in the Old Ways, and went with blue screens and CG instead of traditional matte painting and location photography. I saw an interview with him in which he stated that he originally wanted to do that, but in the end he decided that the story would be "better served" by going digital. It sounds to me like he let Lucas get to him instead of listening to his gut. I wish he hadn't done that.
not so much...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story....38ER575&page=2
There is almost as much CGi in this film as the Transformers, it is so not an old fashioned film stock film, all the jungles are digtital!
I wish it had all been shot in the jungle, without so much CGI, but Lucas did write the story.
Steven Spielberg has vowed to continue to make movies "the old fashioned way, " on celluloid rather than on hard disks. Speaking Wednesday night at the Smithsonian Institution's Baird Auditorium in Washington D.C., where he received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, Spielberg distanced himself from his longtime friend and sometime colleague George Lucas, who has announced plans to shoot his next Star Wars movie entirely on digital media. As reported in today's (Thursday) Washington Post, Spielberg told the Smithsonian audience: "I'm going to make all my films on film until they close the last lab down." The audience cheered.
Film is like a roast meal; lots for prep, hours to cook, lots of washing up -but it is more satisfying😀.
Film photography is not inherently "anti-technology". It may be a non-digital technology, but it is a very complex process. Like computers, the difficult part is hidden from the user. All the interesting chemistry takes place in the manufacture of the the film, and we have only the user interface part - adding the last few chemicals in solution form - to mess with in our darkrooms.Don't you (generic you) find a certain irony in discussing anti-technology threads on a computer? They usually start with someone sitting at a computer late at night, typing "I work all day on the computer, I sure don't want to spend my evenings sitting at one editing photos." 😉
1__ Because film and older cameras and lenses produce unpredictable and final results.
That level of unpredictability really depends on how well you know you film (and its development), the camera and lens 😀