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Look at a 9 light or 12 light Maxi Brute. If you hold your hand close the lamp you see every shadow, though perhaps you should do this with an equivalent multiple bulb LED if you value your hand.
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Not David but in my opinion one example would be a “gritty” story.
I’m preparing a dark mystery-thriller and intend to use grain, the soundtrack uses lots of grainy, gritty, granular sound elements as well.
I think the balance is delicate and I prefer the grain to be “felt” rather than seen.
Personally I think the “Dune” pipeline was a bit of a gimmick. I’d guess general audience hardly got anything from it (if at all) that couldn’t have been achieved much simpler and cheaper.
I’m always interested in the effort/benefit ratio and for me personally this didn’t pass it. Then again, that was a very big production, with top notch people, and they get to levels of quality where I’d imagine such details matter more.
from the top of my head:
The Wrestler
Black Swan
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Pusher
District 9
NOTE:
I am currently using a VPN because I could not login anymore after testing to edit the above post, which failed.This often happened to me, not being able to login anymore after there was an error posting or editing.
Clearing cache, using different browsers ect does not work, even a VPN only occasionally did the trick.
I assume the “ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS” is caused by the website and unfortunately seems to still be there.
I often would not be able to post a second time in a thread. First time always worked, second time only occasionally.
This is the first test and seems to work so far.
Would love to hear from Roger, too!
Here’s my take as I finished my first feature screenplay after 3 years: dialogue is the hardest part. I realized that I am not good enough at writing dialogue and reduced it to a bare minimum.
‘Show don’t tell’ can be more time consuming when writing and I believe many screenwriters don’t have the time (or muse) to do so – they rather fall back on mediocre dialogue. I see it a lot and it bothers me, too.
I think dialogue is an art in itself and those who master it are few. You mentioned some, from the top of my head I’d add Aaron Sorkin and George R.R. Martin (though technically not a screenwriter).
Just finished watching the new Beverly Hills Cop
I haven’t dared to watch it yet, mostly because Netflix films usually are like clones from each other. They all look the same, sound the same and seem to be based on generic”success” strategies.
There are only very rare exceptions that don’t disappoint me, and I’ll certainly watch the Beverly Hills Cop revival at some point, but this is the typical type of film where Netflix would use colorful images and loud noises to distract from any storytelling shortcomings.
Writing all this, I really don’t know why I still pay them 🙂
If it’s a horror piece, I don’t think you can do much wrong with this approach, what you don’t see is often more important than what you do see 🙂
I think Team Deakins didn’t get further then their opening question “How did you get into filmmaking?”, haha.
But it’s a great episode, full of interesting stories and anecdotes.
Well explained Max.
Looks like there also is some software stabilization going on that might give it a ‘manipulated’ feel.
Thank you!
That’s a very good point – the goal would indeed be to emulate mercury vapor street lamps as they looked on film stocks (of the past). I have a good idea now where to start and what to look for.
Thank you both for sharing your knowledge.
