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STC Episode 6 (news and speculation)....

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Let us know how it goes.
Will do.

First thing I'll look at is dialogue for things that strike me as out of place or too contemporary. I might also look at tweaking some dialogue I think could have been better.

Any other suggestions?
 
Hey, that engineering section looks great!

I'd been tough on Continues regarding some aspects of script/execution -but they've certainly got it when it comes to the look and feel.

I ask this from time to time- hoping that someone with production experience can answer:

Is there some way either in Camera (RED?) or in Post that a production can be made to look as if it was shot on 35MM/Panavision film? (outside a ~24fps frame rate) Continues has the 4x3 aspect, the overall (and key) lighting, blocking/staging etc. It looks so darned close. That's why I continue to ask.

Before I forget-

Congrats to both TOS productions on getting Scotty a much-deserved home of his own. Kickstarter monies well spent.

Oh, and for any look and feel geeks out there like me -

Here is a fantastic piece on the merits of real film. (A tremendous extra expense, I know)
 
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Is there some way either in Camera (RED?) or in Post that a production can be made to look as if it was shot on 35MM/Panavision film? (outside a ~24fps frame rate) Continues has the 4x3 aspect, the overall (and key) lighting, blocking/staging etc. It looks so darned close. That's why I continue to ask.
I saw a short video produced by Peter Jackson a few years ago on the RED camera to show how close it gets to the feel of film. Something about a WWI soldier in the trenches and a letter from a girlfriend.
So presumably, yes, you can imitate the look of 35mm digitally, but how close can you get? Will it feel the same?
Anywhoo, this is what Google came up with: https://www.google.com/search?q=imi...e=utf-8#q=making+digital+video+look+like+film
 
I don't have a problem with McKennah and I'm not interested in her character being bashed. I was just pointing out that her arrival strikes me as counter to Vic's stated intent of creating TOS as close as possible to as it was in 1969.
After watching WNMHGB, i think picking on McKennah is being nitpicky. If you could have a psychiatrist on board one episode, why not a counselor on the next?
Oh and a very weird episode to boot, although I like how Kirk's character develops over the ep.
 
I don't have a problem with McKennah and I'm not interested in her character being bashed. I was just pointing out that her arrival strikes me as counter to Vic's stated intent of creating TOS as close as possible to as it was in 1969.
After watching WNMHGB, i think picking on McKennah is being nitpicky. If you could have a psychiatrist on board one episode, why not a counselor on the next?
Oh and a very weird episode to boot, although I like how Kirk's character develops over the ep.

We discussed this in the Episode 5 thread.

A no-nonsense, MD psychiatrist, like real military organizations had at the time TOS was produced, is much different than a contemporary talk-therapy mental health counselor along the lines of Counselor Troi.

Kor
 
Is there some way either in Camera (RED?) or in Post that a production can be made to look as if it was shot on 35MM/Panavision film? (outside a ~24fps frame rate) Continues has the 4x3 aspect, the overall (and key) lighting, blocking/staging etc. It looks so darned close. That's why I continue to ask.
I saw a short video produced by Peter Jackson a few years ago on the RED camera to show how close it gets to the feel of film. Something about a WWI soldier in the trenches and a letter from a girlfriend.
So presumably, yes, you can imitate the look of 35mm digitally, but how close can you get? Will it feel the same?
Anywhoo, this is what Google came up with: https://www.google.com/search?q=imi...e=utf-8#q=making+digital+video+look+like+film

Thanks, Jedman!

So I took a look- for anyone that's interested in Jackson's RED work, the short film he did is called "Crossing the Line" It was supposed to have been a demo of the RED's capabilities, but he ended up using it to film a short. From the (Albeit blurry 480p resolution of the You Tube clip(s)) it looks like film to me- save for an all too fluid level of motion in some fast moving biplane scenes.

I seem to remember something about motion picture frame information overlapping from one frame to the other, and persistence of vision stuff, that video cameras (even RED!) can't compensate for.

As I mentioned in another thread, the "look" of Continues is now in that uncanny valley of almost real- so I continue to be curious about what it would take to completely look like the mid-late 60's production.

Anyhow- I don't want to hijack the thread with this. Looking forward to seeing Chris Doohan in his engine room near his beloved "bairns".
 
Nice photo of where they are currently with construction of the forced-perspective engine chamber.

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All cool developments. Pictures of engine room seem even more recent than Vic's video.

Star Fleet spackle. Some things never change. The universal cover-upper.

anyhow

So I'm minding my own business watching Mirror, Mirror, and checkin' out the upper chamber that Scott and McCoy use to shunt warp power to the transporter. Yeah, I know ISS enterprise is actually Pike's ship- nacelle spikes, oversized dish, etc.

But still.

I wonder if we'll see that again in a fan production? Cool view from up there.
 
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All cool developments. Pictures of engine room seem even more recent than Vic's video.

Star Fleet spackle. Some things never change. The universal cover-upper.

anyhow

So I'm minding my own business watching Mirror, Mirror, and checkin' out that upper chamber that Scott and McCoy use to shunt warp power to the transporter. Yeah, I know ISS enterprise is actually Pike's ship nacelle spikes, oversized dish, etc.

I wonder if we'll see that again in a fan production? Cool view from up there.

We are working on the elevated Emergency Manual Monitor set.
 
I imagine fan producrions are much like TOS was in adding sets as the need for them arose as well as when they could afford them.
 
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