September 2011
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Scene Dissection: Harry Potter and the Deathly...
Realism, as usual, is simply a fig leaf for doing what you want. Virtually any technique can be justified as realistic according to some conception of what’s important in the scene. If you shoot the action cogently, with all the moves evident, that’s realistic because it shows you what’s “really” happening. If you shoot it awkwardly, that presentation is “realistically” reflecting what a...
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3D - the Illusion Ruiner
3D was never meant for movies.
If anything, 3D technology should be pursued for gaming. But movies? Every time I hear a 3D enthusiast insist that 3D enhances film, I feel like I’m hearing the equivalent of someone arguing under the right conditions – if you lived in an area where it mostly sun for the year, if you would willingly lay on your back and drove alone in a incredibly hot and...
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Soundtracks and Film
I discovered my love of movie soundtracks when I was fourteen years old. If memory hasn’t failed me it was the summer before I entered high school and, while my family and I were at the nearby science center exhibit for how movie’s are made, I stumbled upon the sound booth and put on the massive headphones to see what the exhibit was about.
What I heard was nothing like I’d...