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Author Topic: Video Allows George Lucas to actually Direct His Movie! Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-21-2004 01:18 AM                        Click Here for the page at Star Wars.com that will load a 15MB Quicktime movie to watch how George is using video to revolutionize movie making. Sometimes the audio is hard to understand due to the poor, unskilled compression job that was done to it, but it should be enough to get the over idea. Anyway video allows George to see the actors on big monitors, and that has encouraged him to get up from his chair and actually approach the actors and direct them when he sees something wrong! Is this a George Lucas first? Why does George have no chin? If the Star Wars site is busy, you can download the file here. Also 15MB. Quicktime 6 be required, yo.  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 07-21-2004 02:17 AM                        Joe, just curious: Exactly how many "emovitar" photos did you take? I think I want a gallery page of all of them. Challenge: Do you have one for bemused resignation?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-21-2004 02:35 AM                        There are 27. No gallery for you unless you can answer this random obscure question: Who is the guy that does the voices for Neo Geo games? PS - I have no concept of "bemused".  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 07-21-2004 03:50 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer Who is the guy that does the voices for Neo Geo games? You have no idea how ironic a question that was to ask me. I answered it in the September issue of "GameFan" magazine waaayyy back during their first year of publication. They teased me for my rather unusual name, but it was still cool to get my letter printed anyway. I still have the magazine and will scan the page for you. BRB... Edit: Okay, here's a quick and messy scan of the mail section in the September 1993 issue of Gamefan magazine: (my letter is in the upper left) Link to server off-site for discussion removed per archival policy. Read the FAQ. [ 07-21-2004, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-21-2004 05:04 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer Why does George have no chin? The monster posing as a beard ate it. Pretty concise way to issue my 2000th FT post.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-21-2004 05:40 PM                        Oops! Sorry Cliff, no link in your post, so I can't give ya a gallery! Anyway, has anyone else besides me watched the Quicktime?  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 07-21-2004 06:26 PM                        It does seem silly that it's such a novel idea that Lucas gets up to interact with his actors. Any good director will be scrutinizing the performances in any way he/she can. I think, like the clip says, that having the "video village" makes it a lot easier, removing the necessity of having dailies and all that. But they make it seem like "we can FINALLY do these things, thanks to technology!" And I, of course, had to go through and watch all those documentary things and get myself worked up, anticipating this movie. If I keep this up, I'll be one of those "I can't wait! It's going to be SO great!" droids you run into every now and then.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-21-2004 11:09 PM                        That clip is basically a commercial for really big plasma screens. The way people talk is just like they do on those TV shopping channels "I bbqued before, but only since I had the Butchermaster Samurai Chef 2000 knife set has it become the complete experience it is now".  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-22-2004 12:27 AM                        How do we know they are plasmas? Was it mentioned? Either I couldn't understand what was being said becaise of the incompetant audio compression or I just wasn't listening.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-22-2004 01:14 AM                       quote: Joe Redifer video allows George to see the actors on big monitors Video taps are nothing new. (First stuck on Panaflex cameras by Phil Hill.)  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-22-2004 01:34 AM                        Ya gotta watch da Quicktime! They talk about video taps and how they and Phil suck!  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-22-2004 01:40 AM                     In the video, George actually says to the Director of "xXx": "We're making a little commercial for plasma screens here." ...or words to very similar effect. That's almost an exact quote. Joe: The sound quality was not bad. Something's wrong with your computer setup (or your ears).  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-22-2004 04:06 AM                        Nah. I guarantee my speakers are better than yours. You are just used to crappy compression.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-22-2004 08:36 AM                    Too bad you're not a member of the site. Then you would have been able to see a bigger version about a month ago. And maybe you'll actually be able to hear it on your spark-o-matic speakers too.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-22-2004 09:22 AM                        The trend for monitors for on-set use is large screen LCD, not plasma. CRT monitors are still preferred for color and tone scale, despite their weight. Unless the display and viewing conditions are well controlled, a monitor is NOT a good way to judge lighting and color. Kodak has just announced a Kodak Display Manager system to aid in controlling monitors: http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/news/nab2004breakthroughsP.shtml quote: Kodak Display Manager System with its Lustre V2.0 system on both a monitor and a digital projector in its suite at the conference. The Kodak Display Manager System consists of a calibration tool and proprietary software that automatically adjusts images displayed on a computer monitor to simulate the film look. The Kodak Display Manager System and Kodak color science technology are also being shown in the Kodak booth.  |  IP: Logged

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