I just saw this last week and also saw it again with the 1st AD audio commentary.
Nice to hear they did a bleach bypass on the film before telecine.
I think this will be a nice episode to see on Blu-ray in HD for the sunlight scenes as well as the stylized color look that will have some more color subtleties on Blu-ray.
North Star (2008 thread) mentions the Western genre cliche's. I thought they did it nicely without having the classic standoff to see who draws guns first.
For an ENT episode with so much time spent off the ship it was very enjoyable as well as it being a period piece.
And I was thinking that the ENT writers were a little influenced by the "Deadwood" HBO series that wasn't released until March 2004 while this aired in November 2003 and was written months earlier though the film Open Range directed by Kevin Costner did get released in August 2003 and may have given them just a little inspiration being the only Hollywood film in the Western genre released that year.
Nice to hear they did a bleach bypass on the film before telecine.
It wasn't said specifically if they made a print or if they did the process on the original camera negative (OCN) but since these days its the OCN that goes to the HD telecine as you have the most dynamic range to play with color correction & exposure later with they probably did the process to the OCN.usually would have reduced saturation and exposure latitude, along with increased contrast and graininess.
Generally it is applied at the internegative stage, as insurance companies usually are reluctant to have the original negative bleach bypassed in the event that the look is agreed to be too extreme
I think this will be a nice episode to see on Blu-ray in HD for the sunlight scenes as well as the stylized color look that will have some more color subtleties on Blu-ray.
North Star (2008 thread) mentions the Western genre cliche's. I thought they did it nicely without having the classic standoff to see who draws guns first.
For an ENT episode with so much time spent off the ship it was very enjoyable as well as it being a period piece.
And I was thinking that the ENT writers were a little influenced by the "Deadwood" HBO series that wasn't released until March 2004 while this aired in November 2003 and was written months earlier though the film Open Range directed by Kevin Costner did get released in August 2003 and may have given them just a little inspiration being the only Hollywood film in the Western genre released that year.