Here's what I talked about during my presentation C:
Before the end of the year we were to write up a kind of proposal, explaining what we want to write our dissertation on etc etc.
Before summer I thought I was going to write about something else. I have presented my idea to the rest of my group and tutors and received good feedback but also a few concerns about it.
The thing is, it was an argument that was talked a lot about in the past and an argument that cannot be settled, there were just too many doubts surrounding the subject for me to carry on with it. Taking those comments on board I have decided to drop this subject and think of something else.
For a long time I could not think of anything that would be good and interesting enough for me to write about. I knew I need to write about something that's in one way or another appealing to me because otherwise I'd get bored and sick of it, nevermind the fact it'd be difficult to research and then work on it.
I've decided to go with vfx because it's something I've been enjoying doing lately and thought it was an interesting thing to write about.
But that isn't the only reason why I've chosen to write about VFX.
It pretty much came to me when my partner, who is really passionate about Star Wars, was reading an article out loud about one of the actor's experience while filming the new Star Wars movie.
There was one quote which stuck in my mind, as well as his reaction to what he just read.
"He's shooting on film and actually building the sets, so you've got hundreds of Stormtroopers or whatever, and hundreds of extras and all the ships. You actually see it. It's all REAL. Everyone can interact with the world." - Oscar Isaac
To which Jakub (my partner) responded with, "This is how it should be done! I can't even imagine how amazing it must feel to be there, I wish I could experience this."
This is what caught my attention.
He isn't the only person that thinks that way and here I started wondering why. Why is it so important for people to see real sets, is VFX that bad?
And here I started recalling another article he read to me a while back.
It was about Ian McKellen about the new Hobbit movie.
"In order to shoot the dwarves and a large Gandalf, we couldn't be in the same set. All I had for company was 13 photographs of the dwarves on top of stands with little lights - whoever's talking flashes up"
"Pretending you're with 13 other people when you're on your own it stretched your technical ability to the absolute limits."
"I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, 'This is not why I became an actor.'"
This is a completely different experience to the one Oscar Isaac is having and I think it's worth exploring why that is. If the impact of our green screen and vfx is in fact, ruining the film.
I really wanted to explore this subject and hopefully I'll understand what's going on.
Since presenting this I've received some good feedback about this, some good comments and advice to where to start,
Someone said that a man in a costume can be a hundred times better than any cg,
I've looked at quite a few books about film, and vfx and they all seem to talk about the limitations that traditional film making comes with, and the time consuming processes they have to go through,
And here is another thing that someone mentioned, that the turnaround of old movies could be as little as 6 months and they were still great, and the turnaround of modern movies can be years and years, that they don't see this as an improvement and less time consuming processes, infact it seems to come with more difficulties and is a lot more time consuming.
So the things I'll start looking into is the traditional film making, the vfx industry, I'll definitely have to talk about things with actors and professionals to ask their opinion, I'll watch a few old movies and most of them have a re-make which will be great for comparison. I got told that doing a few experiments with actors would be a good idea and I think that's another thing I'll have to do sooner rather than later. The experiment was something along the lines of taking an actor and filming first in a set I'll prepare and again on a green screen, then interviewing them asking about their experience. I will do that with a few people to get a variety of feedback, I hope.
Another thing is to just look into books of all kinds, look into magazines old as well as new editions.
Definitely go to theater because I haven't been in a long time and see how well the performance can be done without the vfx without the explosions, with just good acting and music. I'll again, ask around about people's experience there.
So to sum up, I'm quite excited about this and I can't wait to get started.
Before the end of the year we were to write up a kind of proposal, explaining what we want to write our dissertation on etc etc.
Before summer I thought I was going to write about something else. I have presented my idea to the rest of my group and tutors and received good feedback but also a few concerns about it.
The thing is, it was an argument that was talked a lot about in the past and an argument that cannot be settled, there were just too many doubts surrounding the subject for me to carry on with it. Taking those comments on board I have decided to drop this subject and think of something else.
For a long time I could not think of anything that would be good and interesting enough for me to write about. I knew I need to write about something that's in one way or another appealing to me because otherwise I'd get bored and sick of it, nevermind the fact it'd be difficult to research and then work on it.
I've decided to go with vfx because it's something I've been enjoying doing lately and thought it was an interesting thing to write about.
But that isn't the only reason why I've chosen to write about VFX.
It pretty much came to me when my partner, who is really passionate about Star Wars, was reading an article out loud about one of the actor's experience while filming the new Star Wars movie.
There was one quote which stuck in my mind, as well as his reaction to what he just read.
"He's shooting on film and actually building the sets, so you've got hundreds of Stormtroopers or whatever, and hundreds of extras and all the ships. You actually see it. It's all REAL. Everyone can interact with the world." - Oscar Isaac
To which Jakub (my partner) responded with, "This is how it should be done! I can't even imagine how amazing it must feel to be there, I wish I could experience this."
This is what caught my attention.
He isn't the only person that thinks that way and here I started wondering why. Why is it so important for people to see real sets, is VFX that bad?
And here I started recalling another article he read to me a while back.
It was about Ian McKellen about the new Hobbit movie.
"In order to shoot the dwarves and a large Gandalf, we couldn't be in the same set. All I had for company was 13 photographs of the dwarves on top of stands with little lights - whoever's talking flashes up"
"Pretending you're with 13 other people when you're on your own it stretched your technical ability to the absolute limits."
"I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, 'This is not why I became an actor.'"
This is a completely different experience to the one Oscar Isaac is having and I think it's worth exploring why that is. If the impact of our green screen and vfx is in fact, ruining the film.
I really wanted to explore this subject and hopefully I'll understand what's going on.
Since presenting this I've received some good feedback about this, some good comments and advice to where to start,
Someone said that a man in a costume can be a hundred times better than any cg,
I've looked at quite a few books about film, and vfx and they all seem to talk about the limitations that traditional film making comes with, and the time consuming processes they have to go through,
And here is another thing that someone mentioned, that the turnaround of old movies could be as little as 6 months and they were still great, and the turnaround of modern movies can be years and years, that they don't see this as an improvement and less time consuming processes, infact it seems to come with more difficulties and is a lot more time consuming.
So the things I'll start looking into is the traditional film making, the vfx industry, I'll definitely have to talk about things with actors and professionals to ask their opinion, I'll watch a few old movies and most of them have a re-make which will be great for comparison. I got told that doing a few experiments with actors would be a good idea and I think that's another thing I'll have to do sooner rather than later. The experiment was something along the lines of taking an actor and filming first in a set I'll prepare and again on a green screen, then interviewing them asking about their experience. I will do that with a few people to get a variety of feedback, I hope.
Another thing is to just look into books of all kinds, look into magazines old as well as new editions.
Definitely go to theater because I haven't been in a long time and see how well the performance can be done without the vfx without the explosions, with just good acting and music. I'll again, ask around about people's experience there.
So to sum up, I'm quite excited about this and I can't wait to get started.
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