So, I get that it looks bad -- I look at it and I get this feeling like it's cheap in some way -- but I'm not sure exactly why it feels that way. Like the Plinkett line, I didn't notice the mistake, but my brain did. Would someone be able to point out exactly what's wrong with this scene?
It's subtle lighting and motion shit that you gotta be kind of an expert to know the words for - or even to consciously recognize.
Taking a crack at it:
First shot: her face is really blurred into the background
Second shot: The tanks and shit behind Scarlett Johansson are lit orange like a sunset from the left, but she just has soft cold lighting on her
Third shot: Just weird, Idk the smoke is really clearly edited in poorly, and she's so static in the frame, like it's just a lazy amateur shot.
Fourth shot same as second shot. Fifth same as third.
Sixth shot where she stabs the thing is too blurry and fast to really tell if anything is wrong.
Seventh shot when she starts flying back, there's a fucking GIANT EXPLOSION IMAGE BUT IT'S 2 FEET ACROSS. Look at that explosion. It's a 20 foot fireball effect but they made it tiny. She's also lit evenly again. In front of a fiery explosion. Motion is starting off really weird.
Seventh shot, she's being fucking lit on the FRONT OF HER BODY even as her body awkwardly turns away from the explosion. It starts 90 degrees wrong, ends like 170 degrees wrong. They just rotate her image cutout. They also fade the orange filter on her body a bit after the explosion stops glowing. It's out of sync.
There's also just such a detachment from the background. It's absolutely cheap as shit - nothing tying anything together - you just have background, exploding thing, explosion, character, and random shitty dust. It would have taken more work to blend everything into a coherent setting where the foreground fades into the background. Every shot is just someone standing chest high in front of a green screen yelling with a fan blowing on them.
Really fuckin bad. These studios have more money than God so they're probably embezzling a lot of it or whatever, buying children for adrenochrome, whatever.
Part of it, at least what I'm seeing is the awkward framing of the actors compared to their backgrounds when close up. Their hair's blowing in the wind, but it's clear they're not really there. Then with the explosion, the actor's flying back super awkwardly.
If there are other issues, I can't articulate them well myself. It's just bad. Like those instincts you have that things are off.
So, I get that it looks bad -- I look at it and I get this feeling like it's cheap in some way -- but I'm not sure exactly why it feels that way. Like the Plinkett line, I didn't notice the mistake, but my brain did. Would someone be able to point out exactly what's wrong with this scene?
It's subtle lighting and motion shit that you gotta be kind of an expert to know the words for - or even to consciously recognize.
Taking a crack at it:
First shot: her face is really blurred into the background
Second shot: The tanks and shit behind Scarlett Johansson are lit orange like a sunset from the left, but she just has soft cold lighting on her
Third shot: Just weird, Idk the smoke is really clearly edited in poorly, and she's so static in the frame, like it's just a lazy amateur shot.
Fourth shot same as second shot. Fifth same as third.
Sixth shot where she stabs the thing is too blurry and fast to really tell if anything is wrong.
Seventh shot when she starts flying back, there's a fucking GIANT EXPLOSION IMAGE BUT IT'S 2 FEET ACROSS. Look at that explosion. It's a 20 foot fireball effect but they made it tiny. She's also lit evenly again. In front of a fiery explosion. Motion is starting off really weird.
Seventh shot, she's being fucking lit on the FRONT OF HER BODY even as her body awkwardly turns away from the explosion. It starts 90 degrees wrong, ends like 170 degrees wrong. They just rotate her image cutout. They also fade the orange filter on her body a bit after the explosion stops glowing. It's out of sync.
There's also just such a detachment from the background. It's absolutely cheap as shit - nothing tying anything together - you just have background, exploding thing, explosion, character, and random shitty dust. It would have taken more work to blend everything into a coherent setting where the foreground fades into the background. Every shot is just someone standing chest high in front of a green screen yelling with a fan blowing on them.
Really fuckin bad. These studios have more money than God so they're probably embezzling a lot of it or whatever, buying children for adrenochrome, whatever.
George Lucas and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Part of it, at least what I'm seeing is the awkward framing of the actors compared to their backgrounds when close up. Their hair's blowing in the wind, but it's clear they're not really there. Then with the explosion, the actor's flying back super awkwardly.
If there are other issues, I can't articulate them well myself. It's just bad. Like those instincts you have that things are off.