Matt lays out his preference for squibs over CGI bullet wounds, and expands it into a larger Marxist analysis about how profit concerns increasingly strangle creativity
Matt lays out his preference for squibs over CGI bullet wounds, and expands it into a larger Marxist analysis about how profit concerns increasingly strangle creativity
The stuff about how cgi guns don't usually have recoil really got to me. I see it all of the time now.
I noticed that a few years ago and it's really weird. Another thing that once I noticed it became infuriating was the use of blue filters over cameras during daylight shoots to simulate nighttime, and it sucks.
The blue filter one has been going on since pretty much the beginning of cinema, and it looks completely bad. It used to be impossible to get a good picture when you were filming at night, so you needed to shoot during the daytime with a blue filter to fake it. Cameras have been good enough to shoot in the dark for a long time now, but people are just too lazy/cheap to film at night.
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Strange Days also shot most of its footage at night. You'll probably never see another movie with that many night scenes again. Edit: urban core night scenes I guess I should add, since the headache of clearing the streets and all that other business.
For real. Barry Lyndon is my favorite Kubrick.
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Lighting night to read realistically as night to viewers is still really expensive, and cameras getting better light sensitivity or using high speed lenses won't change that unfortunately.
Lights getting cheaper and smaller has helped a bit, but you're going to see it in low budget shows that can't afford lifts until they figure out another way to get 200+ lbs of lights 80ft in the air.