I loved how the boom stick guy talked about how his arms would go numb from holding the boom for so long. The behind the scenes portion about the sound effects was great, and i liked how they go through so many different sounds to get the perfect one. Some of the sounds they got i wasn't prepared to hear about, but it made a ferocious sound in the end.
To the camera angles. The movies today have become very creative in getting the best view possible. A lot of it has to do with the amount of money they are able to put into everything, but directors are thinking about every little detail to make it perfect. Being able to do everything in front of a green screen and know that in the end it will look realistic is completely amazing. The technology and skills of the people behind it is astonishing.
Lastly, the extent of work that the director and editors go through together was new to me. I had always assumed that directors just did on set stuff and other than that nothing. There's a lot of stuff that a director actually goes through to make a movie. I like the storyboards that the directors make to visualize what they want to see in the film. Even if they are not exactly what is going to end up in the scene, the director is still able to get bigger and better ideas.
On a different note, i heard that the black circle that shows up on the screen for half a second at movie theaters during movies is because of editing. Maybe it is just putting everything together .... idk. just thought someone would know
That circle (or "cigarette burn" as it's known) is a signal to the projectionist in the theater that a reel change is coming up in a few seconds. Films for projection come to the theater on several reels, and then are actually edited together by the projectionist. These days they're edited into one long film and placed horizontally on a "platter," so there are no reel changes. But used to be that they were edited onto two reels that sat on two different projectors in the booth. When the first one was running out, the projectionist had to turn on the second one and shut the first one off so the movie could keep going without a break.
ReplyDeleteThat section on horse noises really does show you how you have to go places you never wanted to think about to get that kind of qaulity film. Dedication. But also, how fun would it be to repeatedly drop a two ton brick?
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