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I used to be that way, but have gone the other way, I like to avoid all spoilers.
I don't care if there is news or not. Eventually there will be a show.
I've never seen Mandalorian or any of the other shows that use that kind of thing. How does it look? Better, or worse, than real sets?
I admit I've never heard of a show (other than BSG: Blood & Chrome) going to all-digital sets. Curious to see how that turns out.
There a couple of cool Mando videos out there that show the benefits of an AR Wall or whatever it is called.
I'm not a trained eye. But to me it looked good. Also for actors and producers it's really beneficial if they can see (part) of the actual virtual world around/above them.
I'm not a trained eye. But to me it looked good. Also for actors and producers it's really beneficial if they can see (part) of the actual virtual world around/above them.
If they didn't tell us they weren't filming on location you never would suspect otherwise. The question is if the Trek crew will be as good at using it as Lucasfilm.
Regardless of what one my thinking on the Mandalorian the use of this technology is definitely in line with what Lucas would want to do with filmmaking in the digital age.
Oh, George would be using this technology at the moment if the Prequels were being filmed in 2021. He only used greenscreen and bluescreen because they and digital cameras were the hot new things from 1997-2005. With the passage of time the tech used to produce entertainment becomes easier for both the crew and the actors and nowadays Ewan McGregor or Samuel L. Jackson wouldn't have to stare at green walls and floors and pretend they're seeing something that's not there.
It might be more impressive if Mandalorian used them for locales other than desert planets , although this season branched out a bit with an ice planet and an ocean episode. They look realistic i wouldn't have known it was digital until they said so
They also used them for several interior sets.
I was sort of surprised that greenscreen stuff got as much complaints as it did from actors, since a lot of them have theater backgrounds and I thought they would be used to that sort of thing.
It really depends greatly on the director. Lucas, by his own admission, is a director who doesn't give very specific direction. He relies heavily on capturing actors in a raw moment and constructing a narrative around it. Some of have attributed that to his early days as a documentary filmmaker. You're not directing; you're capturing and then constructing a narrative from the footage.
For actors they usually want a sense of vision from the director of what this scene will entail, the dynamics of the locale, and how that will impact the character. In my experience in theater there is usually a director or production assistant (if we were lucky) who really frame it and said "Hey, this is what this looks like" and we would go from there. But, in Star Wars, there's a lot of exotic locales and that takes a different set of imagination that "Hey, you're in 16th Century England." And Lucas didn't always give that type of direction because that's not his strength.
I don't think that's a comparable situation at all. Otherwise, Ian McKellen, a very experienced theatre actor, wouldn't have had a meltdown while filming a greenscreen scene in The Hobbit and screamed at Peter Jackson "THIS IS NOT WHY I BECAME AN ACTOR!"
I heard it was more he muttered this under his breath and the microphone caught it. I'm pretty sure he didn't snap at Peter yelling at him.
Mark Ruffalo wearing hulk hands and a hulk head hat on set might look ridiculous, but it solves the problem of having to act off a tennis ball.
Regardless, the man was near tears due to being alone in a room full of green with no one to act off of. Training will only take you so far.
Which a lot of theater actors are.
Or having to react against an assistant just giving the line like Ricardo Montalban had to do in TWOK for Kirk's lines of "Khan, you blood sucker."
They used them for several interior sets as well. Also the junk piles where what's his face was a prisoner.
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