Which made some sense for that episode, based on the camera point-of-view and that Enterprise was phasering an entire city block.
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Which made some sense for that episode, based on the camera point-of-view and that Enterprise was phasering an entire city block.
I know that was the ship's phasers in the ep, but was there any use of the green wash on the hand phaser before Assignment:Earth?
I'm not clear on the whole "purple" thing. I checked my laserdisc copy of that episode and the two shots of the Enterprise firing phaser beams have them blue. The second shot, however, has a blue color bleed in the upper right of the screen, if that's what you mean. I then checked my old VHS Paramount tape from the very early 80's, with Amok Time and Journey to Babel. These are older prints. The phasers are blue, but the brightness and contrast of the picture is darker than the later 80's prints. However, the phasers are still blue and the "bleed" is still there. Just a lot less apparent.
If you have the Amazon Prime Streaming Video service, some episodes of the third season with original effects have the original sound mix. They are obviously not the recently restored prints, but it's nice to have good quality Trek with the original sounds for a change... Spock's Brain and Day of the Dove are definitely of the original sound mix.
I am. Green wash, no beams, and a "Pew" sound effect, rather than the "ssshh" hum.
Yeah, that's the one. Still think it was first used in Assignment:Earth. Then used in Spock's Brain. Don't recall any other uses at the moment.
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The most memorable for me is the one from The Cloud Minders, when Kirk is breaking Ardana out of jail.
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Anyone else notice Bran Ferren used the "Inside the ship" sound effect for the torpedo Enterprise fired at the Entity in STV instead of the "Outside the ship" sound?
I noticed it was different, but never really thought much about it.
Pretty sure Bran Ferren and his team just did the visuals, and the sound effects were added later by others. TFF does have some interesting sound effects work, though. In the shuttle, for example, there are some very distinct sound effects from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Interesting, thanks for this.
Yeah, I was just blaming Bran Ferren because most of what's wrong with STV Bran Ferren was responsible for, i.e.; wasting money on substandard effects so the final film is far less than it could have been.
I know, it had terrible editing and TV direction instead of cinema direction, but that's due to Shatner not doing a feature before, not because he sucks at it. He actually doesn't.
I actually disagree. I think TFF is one of the few films in the entire Trek series that is actually directed like a feature film and not a TV episode. Shatner did a far more effective directorial job, IMHO, than did Nimoy, who staged his two films in a very mundane fashion.
The problem, IMHO, with TFF is that Shatner is not a particularly good WRITER. He has never truly "gotten" Star Trek, and seemed unable to capture that in the story. Instead, he found a topic that intrigued him and tried to shoehorn it into the Star Trek premise.
Well, Shatner, despite what his detractors say, didn't write STV. He came up with a premise, or even a detailed plot, that was given to David Loughery, who then wrote the script. It was Loughery that didn't get the characters, and Shatner who, as a first time director who didn't know how to budget his own time, didn't do the research necessary into the characters and settings to be able to properly present the story. Shatner himself is not very good at dialog, but he has a skilled imagination, and can come up with some compelling stories.
I seem to remember in the theater the torpedo sound effect for TFF leaned more on the "beeew!" with the "firing pin" sound mixed down more. Then again, this could have been the theater speakers more than the actual film mix. I just remember being surprised the series firing sound was louder on home video than on the big screen. Either way, it didn't sound like the movie series torpedo sounds.
Well, the 'inside the ship' sound from the series was kind of a whoosh, like the torpedo leaving the tube would sound on a submarine, while the 'outside the ship' sound was the 'peew' sound from hitting the guywire of a power pole. The sound used in STV was the whoosh of the 'inside the ship' sound.
Why does a studio let an actor come up with a premise and/or write? Isn't that what writers are for?
I guess I can see directing, since they've been on sets for many hours of their lives. Maybe. On the other hand you read of people who worked their way up and labored for years as assistant directors. Something to be said for learning your craft.
I guess I can see directing, since they've been on sets for many hours of their lives. Maybe. On the other hand you read of people who worked their way up and labored for years as assistant directors. Something to be said for learning your craft.
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