Spielberg and Dick Cavett discuss Jaws & Raiders
Spielberg couldn’t say “Midget” today.
In fact on the JAWS DVD he always says “little person.”
This talk show is slow and tame by todays standards. In the “post Arsenio” era they’d be encouraging rowdiness from the crowd.
Today the shark would of course be CGI. But why not “muppeteers” under a rubber shark?
https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/07/13/shoot-on-film/
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I just read an article in MOVIE MAKER magazine that has my head spinning.
Theres an interview with Steve Bellamy, President of Kodak Film. Bellamy gave a bunch of reasons as to why independent filmmakers should be shooting on film, not digital.
Well, I don’t know any “filmmaker” today who wouldn’t WANT to be shooting on true film. But its too expensive.
Bellamy said “ No one ever said ‘lets make this film look more like digital’ “
Well thats true, I do EVERYTHING I can to make my digital footage look “cinematic” Filters, de saturation….. I’ve gotten pretty good at making color digital look like high contrast Black and White, but Im not satisfied with making digital look like color film.
Bellamy said “Film is LESS expensive than digital, no ifs ands or buts”
Well I could give him dozens, if not hundreds of no ifs ands or buts…
He said “camera packages are cheaper with film. Your shooting ratios are lower, your performances are better. People prepare better and storyboard with film— in video they don’t. Film doesn’t have a video village”
He is SO wrong on that. I prep as if it were film. I storyboard. I don’t have a “video village” anyway, my DSLR is used just like a film camera.
He said “When you edit digital, you have four times as much footage to soft through than if you shot film”
He may be right about that, but if I’m editing something I shot myself, I can sift through the footage really fast. In fact some “bad” footage” might capture something I didn’t notice at first.
But of course, his business is selling film.. so of course he’s biased.
https://petapixel.com/2018/01/16/heres-first-footage-new-kodak-super-8-film-camera/
horror movie test footage
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428441/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Edge:_The_Magic_of_Movie_Editing
https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/01/15/the-cutting-edge/
RETURN OF THE JEDI Endor forest speeder bike chase scene shooting location.
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Owen Cheatham Redwood Grove in Northern California
I am a little confused, I thought I read somewhere that the Endor scenes were shot in a part of the forest that was “due to be clear cut anyway”. And yet there it all still is.
I am assuming that trail was blazed by Star Wars fans wanting a picture by the locations, but actually that trail is there in the 1983 film. You’ve got to look real quick but its there.
If they made this film today there would be using newer, more advanced “steadi cams” or drones or…. ( yukk!) CGI. One idea I always had was the lay many MILES of dolly track with a real practical speeder bike on it and just film it.
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