At 1.28 that looks pretty real. I am assuming / hoping its a camera on dolly track and someone tugs it on a robe at the last second. I think the footage is speeded up.
And now that I’ve seen it…. I still kind of think that.
I enjoyed parts of it. Its technically amazing. HOW did they make those animals move? Puppetry? Advanced CGI? Or… most likely… a combination of all of them?
The characters were a clever hybrid of the original storyboard drawings and Disney cartoon models.
The real Christopher Robin:
Ewan McGregors a great actor, but this guy looks more the part:
The story is a bit remiscent of Spielbergs HOOK . The work a holic dad who cant find time to be with his family.
It also reminded me a bit of DREAM CHILD, TED, and the Harry Potters…
WHO was this movie for? Small children? Jaded Adults?
And THIS “Christopher Robin” has almost NO connection to what I know of the real one ( and I’m not even that much a Pooh buff).
If they can use the “magic tree” to teleport from London to the hundred Acre wood, why couldn’t they use it to transport back?
It has marvellous moments, but the ending was bit too much “Disney Ex Machina”
According to ROGUE ONE, Bail Organa was on Yavin 4 when his home Planet ( Alderaan) was blown up by the Death Star. And R2D2 has ( had) a copy of the Death Star plans in his memory. So maybe a really elderly Bail Organa could be alive in a sequel and he could build himself some kind of Rebel Death Star? Yes, he said he was going home, but maybe he didn’t make in in time.
For a recent wedding shoot I had a freelancer use a Black Magic camera. I have heard very good things about that camera, how the footage looks just like 35mm motion picture film! I was very excited. And I was a bit nervous how that footage would mix in when edited in with footage with my other cameras.
It was so much smaller than I thought it would be.
What I saw in the viewfinder screen concerned me, everything was a dull desaturated greenish grey. The camera operator told me to relax, that all blackmagic footage looks like that until color graded in Davinci Resolve.
Well I don’t have Davinci Resolve. I ran the footage through Adobe After Effects and added an adjustment layer with AUTO COLOR and a lot of vibrancy came back into the image.
Then I added “Brightness and Contrast”. Lowering the Brightness and increasing the Contrast helped even more.
It still didn’t look right.
I added a third adjust layer and used HUE AND SATURATION and increased the saturation of the reds and blues and it started to look like the other cameras.
It says I should have used Effects>Synthetic Aperture.
Hmm I will have to try that on the next shots. So far I am not that impressed. It seems just like my video footage, not this marvelous film look I was expecting. Then again it is most likely the problem is my limited experience with color grading footage from the BlackMagic, and not the camera itself.
A documentary on the amazing John Williams. He scored most of the great movie epics of the last 30 years: Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and all its sequels, Star Wars and all its sequels!
His music is the best part of anything that he has worked on.
Williams score brought the fear and dread of the impending shark attacks in Jaws. He ( and George Lucas) had the great idea to have the music score for Star Wars contradict the pictures. High Tech futuristic imagery with old style pseudo classical music underneath gave the potentially goofy movie a seriousness and elegance it wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Say what you want about the Phantom Menace…. John Williams music score, especially “Duel of the Fates” is excellent!
At 14:06 you can see the Carbon Freeze scene from The Empire Strikes Back with the original undubbed voices!
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