A Scanner Darkly

Post by **netrex** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:33 pm

Eraser wrote:
MKJ wrote:2005, year of the visual gimmicks :icon14:
I don't think this (or Sin City for that matter) count as visual gimmicks. The style adds something to the movie or attempts to set it in a certain recognizable style. I think Sin City won't be the same movie without it's visual style.

And I don't think there's many movies taking post processing this far. Other than Sin City and this movie, I don't know of any.

Sin City had that style to get the feel of the comic which it did very well.

Post by **Nightshade** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:52 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:...or the laughable Skycrapton

YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH! SKYCAPTAIN HAD ANGELINA JOLIE IN IT AND THEREFORE IT FUCKING OWNS!!

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:48 pm

Transient wrote:
rgoer wrote:check out waking life
Fucking ace film. :icon14:

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:49 pm

iambowelfish wrote:This isn't cel-shading or posterizing or any sort of automatic process. It's traced by hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope

Also, gimmick or not, every movie has a style. Something shot on film has a very different style from something shot on video. Some productions just take it further.

what's the diff between video and film

Post by **rgoer** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:50 pm

video records information magnetically

film records information photographically

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:11 pm

photographically - as in silver phosphor thingies reacting to light right?

magnetically = ?

is this related to why movies look different than news recordings?

Post by **rep** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:16 pm

It was done with Rotoshop.

Post by **plained** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:18 pm

a vid frame is interlaced - 2fields and 30fps

a film frame is not interlaced its like a still and the framerate is 24fps

plus film can have a fucload more actual resloution

those fundemental diffs contibute greatly to the diff looks of each

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:37 pm

Film has a different color spectrum, different framerate, slightly better resolution over HD, sometimes visible grain

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:38 pm

Pext wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:I hope they do "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" eventually. That was a wicked book.
yeah... but: is this P.K.Dick as well?

uh... yeah?