http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/star-trek-the-next-generation-was-made-to-be-seen-in-cinerama/
Similar to the TOS Widescreen seen in the TOS thread.
Similar to the TOS Widescreen seen in the TOS thread.
TNG Widescreen
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Interesting, and some of them look nice, but there's a lot of sloppy cutting/pasting and clone stamping going on. Dude needs to learn to feather his brush tools in Photoshop. 
I guess that's pretty cool, but I have to say that I'm a fan of leaving aspect ratios alone. I guess they're at least not "cropping" the picture like they did with the Kubrick movies to force them into a 1.78. Ah well, I guess it would depend on how TNG looked on screen.
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OAR or nothing.
Cinerama? I'd LOVE to see Trek - any Trek - in that format!
As one of the few members here who actually saw the original 3-camera Cinerama system, I can tell you that the width/height ratio was almost 3/1. The earliest movies were glorified travelogues and the effect was spectacular. Sadly, that format fell from use due to its complexity. It would be impossible to resurrect any film in any other format into true Cinerama, no matter how much we might love to see the results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
What???
Tested is run by a bunch of... personalities such as "The Internet's Own Will Smith" and used to be a sister site of GiantBomb.com which I also frequent, so yeah, it was a very obscure shoutout, but that was sort of the point
Agreed- plus the hole looks distorted in a combined image, but when panned it looks better.
Trouble is many shots are composed for a specific format and stitching them together completely alters the scene. Babylon 5 was composed for widescreen even though when it first airs those sets were not being used that much (sort of like the transition from black & white to color in the old days). They just panned & scanned the shots for the initial broadcasts and when the big move was made to widescreen the entire series was already set for that.
doubleohfive
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Crappy headline for a cool project.
I find it interesting that TOS screenshots worked much better when combined like this; TNG just looks weird. Difference in filming styles may have more to do with that, I suppose.
I find it interesting that TOS screenshots worked much better when combined like this; TNG just looks weird. Difference in filming styles may have more to do with that, I suppose.
Conversely, some shows were shot in a wider screen ratio, but weren't intended to be exhibited thus.
For example, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The last four seasons of the show were (mistakenly) exhibited in widescreen in other countries, sourced from the original shooting prints, which is kind of cool..... until you realize that the scenes weren't framed for widescreen, so the 'extra information' on the frame either side of the regular shot frequently contains bits that weren't meant to be seen, unfinished details on the sets, lighting rigs, missing special effects mattes, etc. Joss Whedon himself has admitted that, in his opinion, BTVS should only ever be seen in pan & scan, even though true widescreen versions of those eps do exist and have been released out there to the public. He says that was done by Fox internationally without his knowledge, and he wishes it hadn't happened (the US releases are all in his preferred 4:3 aspect ratio).
More info here:
http://www.quadruplez.com/2010/06/essay-why-buffy-may-never-be-blu/
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I vividly remember people being upset that the original edition of Buffy's Season 4 DVD set was presented in 4:3 and also included a note from Joss explaining why:
Buffy was always intended to be presented and shown this way. It's the original aspect ratio the people who made the show intended for it to be seen in.
The same is true about TNG, which is why no, Virginia, we do not need TNG in widescreen. There are 4 films for that.
Buffy was always intended to be presented and shown this way. It's the original aspect ratio the people who made the show intended for it to be seen in.
The same is true about TNG, which is why no, Virginia, we do not need TNG in widescreen. There are 4 films for that.
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^ Absolutely. The true widescreen Buffy's are kind of neat to see, especially now that widescreen TVs are more common (unlike when the DVDs first came out). But as the link I provided shows us, there are many occasions when mistakes creep into the widescreen shot when they were not seen in 4:3.
Frankly, the 4:3 versions are the correct way to watch.
I do have to admit that part of the reason the Enterprise-D sets look so beautiful in Generations is because we got to see the sets in widescreen for the first time. I remember that first shot of the bridge in widescreen made a BIG impact on the cinema screen back in 1994, that moment where we get to view the entire set from one end to the other in a single shot.
But I'd never like to see that done on the TV episodes themselves. They were intended for 4:3 and should remain ever thus.
(That is a different debate to the topic of this thread though. The thread title is misleading, as the link provided by the OP contains panoramic composites of screen captures, not 'actual' widescreen.
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Frankly, the 4:3 versions are the correct way to watch.
I do have to admit that part of the reason the Enterprise-D sets look so beautiful in Generations is because we got to see the sets in widescreen for the first time. I remember that first shot of the bridge in widescreen made a BIG impact on the cinema screen back in 1994, that moment where we get to view the entire set from one end to the other in a single shot.
But I'd never like to see that done on the TV episodes themselves. They were intended for 4:3 and should remain ever thus. (That is a different debate to the topic of this thread though. The thread title is misleading, as the link provided by the OP contains panoramic composites of screen captures, not 'actual' widescreen.
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Don't forget, TNG would occasionally film effects shots in widescreen, with the intention of framing at 4x3 and adding a camera move (a pan).
http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/04/tngs-visual-effects-you-asked-for-widescreen/
Neil
http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/04/tngs-visual-effects-you-asked-for-widescreen/
Neil
Well, yeah, but these are individual pieces of still-photography art, not an argument for watching the actual series in a cropped/modified format.
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