The damn lens flares!
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JJ Abrams confesses about lens flare
I like the effect, personally. Argue it's 'too much' all you want. I think it's a great visual language for the film, at least. This is the sort of artistry I recognize and appreciate. Mm k? So love this caliber of work from the JJ Abrams crew.
Hey, back in the day TOS was a load of new and experimental film styles and camera moves. And colour (really kids). I'm thrilled this film has such a strong feel, The money spent shows!
JJ Abrams confesses about lens flare
I like the effect, personally. Argue it's 'too much' all you want. I think it's a great visual language for the film, at least. This is the sort of artistry I recognize and appreciate. Mm k? So love this caliber of work from the JJ Abrams crew.
Hey, back in the day TOS was a load of new and experimental film styles and camera moves. And colour (really kids). I'm thrilled this film has such a strong feel, The money spent shows!
Every scene from this movie seems to have two different lens flares!I mean what the fuck? I am scared now that this great movie (deduced from the clips I have seen, not final judgment) will be ruined for me at least from the blinding lens flares it seems to have. Would it have been so hard to not have lens flares at every scene? Some flares are there for over a second! I know Abrams likes some gimmicks but come on! Why put those unnecessary flares? The scene between Kirk, Spock and Scotty on the bridge is specially hard to watch. I'd had to close my eyes rapidly quite a few times and that's from watching it on a monitor. I shudder to think how it would be in the movie theater!
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of all the lens flares either. This is a quote from Cinematographer Dan Mindel in the new issue of Wired:
"We felt that they gave us a very realistic feel to an otherwise static scene. We have this motif working throughout the movie and if you're looking for it, you'll see it. It adds a lot of kineticism."
This just seems like crappy work to me. And the line about "if you're looking for it..." makes me laugh. If you don't notice them everywhere, you're blind.
Having seen the movie at the London Premiere, I can tell you the Lens flares you speak of are a very stylish feature of the bridge scenes.
Don't be concerned with how it looks on the trailers, on the big screen it will not annoy you.
Don't be concerned with how it looks on the trailers, on the big screen it will not annoy you.
Even the Fox network logo had them tonight during the Fringe sneak peek.
I know a guy at ILM who was in charge of having to make the CG lens flares for the space shots. Ha.
Count me as blind, then. I noticed three in the whole film.
There's one every 3 seconds, how could you miss them!
Or we could stop talking and thinking about them all the time....
I mean, there are lens flares all over MI3 too but I hadn't really paid attention to them until I watched it again, after we started talking about flares in this forum.
We'll see...
I mean, there are lens flares all over MI3 too but I hadn't really paid attention to them until I watched it again, after we started talking about flares in this forum.
We'll see...
After the flat, deliberately uninteresting lighting of Berman-era Trek, I'll be happy to see a new take on things.
lens flares - technical
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/cameras/revfeat/star_trek_abrams_0420/index2.html
GOOD! The damn things keep eating my quatrotriticale!
Die Tribble - DIE!!!!
They weren't that bad. I only noticed a few when they came back to back. It will not stop you from enjoying the film.
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