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Topic: Lord of Rings Screenings
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Aaron Haney
Master Film Handler
Posts: 265
From: Cupertino, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-06-2001 05:37 AM
I was a bit disappointed when I first learned the LOTR movies were being shot in Super-35, but then again, I've seen so much variance in what I see on the screen in recent years, that I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter.Some Super-35 movies look fantastic. "Driven" is one example. (And yes, despite what the IMDb says, it was Super-35 -- just take a look at it on video and you'll see that it was definitely spherically photographed.) And, some "real" scope movies look like utter crap. "Heartbreakers" with Sigourney Weaver is one that comes to mind -- it looked extremely grainy when I saw it in the theater. Of course, the reverse is also often true: some Super-35 movies look bad, and a lot of Panavision movies look good. But it doesn't seem to be guaranteed anymore, if it ever was, which will be the case. Peter Jackson seems to be a director who cares about image quality. For example, I remember "The Frighteners" was one of the better looking Super-35 films I've seen. And an article I read recently about special effects for the films mentions that some of the shots were even rendered at 4K resolution! So I'm a little surprised and disappointed to hear that some of the scenes looked grainy, but I'm hoping that, overall, the film will have good image quality. Henning, was it really bad, or just mildly noticable?
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 12-06-2001 09:17 AM
Several articles on the cinematography of "Fellowship of the Ring" are in the December 2001 issue of American Cinematographer. All three films were shot in New Zealand by cinematographer Andrew Lesnie with Arriflex cameras in the Super-35 format, using Kodak 5245, 5293, 5279 and SO-214 camera films. The films were given slight overexposure to place the scene information "up the curve" on the finer grained emulsions and offset the disadvantage of the smaller negative image area with Super-35.------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
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Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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