ILM CREATES THE SPACE JUMP on Trek XI

[jefferiestubes8]

In this video, pros at ILM break down the studio's work on the "space jump" sequence featured in the film, Star Trek.

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dir...60&tier=3&id=AA271D6106714E34B74D608F8031E5D4

I haven't picked up the Blu-ray just yet so I haven't seen all the special features. Is this on the Blu-ray?

 

[startrekrcks]

This is a brilliant interesting clip.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Nice clip. That remark made about "creating a tactile space for the actors" is evident throughout the movie and something that separates it from a lot of these space films - including, most obviously, old-school Trek movies.

 

[M'Sharak]

In this video, pros at ILM break down the studio's work on the "space jump" sequence featured in the film, Star Trek.

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dir...60&tier=3&id=AA271D6106714E34B74D608F8031E5D4

I haven't picked up the Blu-ray just yet so I haven't seen all the special features. Is this on the Blu-ray?

I don't believe it is. TrekMovie.com on 25 January reported "A new video feature at ILM breaks down the space jump." The video they had embedded was the same Post Magazine clip which you've linked here.

What appear to be a couple of related short clips (one of the space jump and one of Narada in the wormhole) can be found here at TrekMovie.

 

[CDR6]

Nice clip. That remark made about "creating a tactile space for the actors" is evident throughout the movie and something that separates it from a lot of these space films - including, most obviously, old-school Trek movies.

Seeing the set of the drill rig where action takes place is amazing, I will have to re visit it next time I watch the DVD. Back in college when I studied scene design, it was discussed that even given a good actor; if you put him up on a wagon (platform) he will be afraid of taking a fall. (An this thing is well and truly up in the air!) Plus the effort of choreographing the fight distracts them from the environment they are working in, and trying to hit their marks. Taking into account the platform, the tripping hazards, the pyro, moving parts of the set…et al. (I wonder how many times they had to give the OSHA rep oxygen!)

For my 2 cents, they did a good job on this scene. I know when we did “Diary of Anne Frank” and “Little Mary Sunshine”, I talked with the casts on both and they confirmed the fear of falling. For “Diary” we borrowed heavily from the Broadway set for the design. It was a beautiful multi leveled affair… (Remains my favorite set design), we had three levels plus the stage to work on. In “Mary Sunshine” we did a fist fight where the hero and the villain go through a sugar glass window and sprawl onto the porch of the cabin…the whole fight was choreographed to live music… the actors weren’t too worried about the fight itself, they were more concerned with tripping and falling on the damn porch!

 

[Flake]

I think they did a great job with this whole scene. They went to great lengths to ensure it was as realistic as possible by building the drill, suspending it in mid air and building the whole thing outdoors.

If George Lucas or James Cameron had done it it would have been in a studio and just a huge blue cloth - no physical construction whatsoever and everything done with CGI in post-production. It would look like a Computer game cutscene, and the acting would be worse.

Infact Cameron would have motion-capped with his new gizmo and just told them to leave their helmets on for the whole scene so it could be fully CGI.

Thank god we got JJ.