scenes from movie "Death of Doctor Island"

Son Of Witz · 29 Apr 2011, 19:56 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son Of Witz)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:56:55 -0700
Subject: (urth) Fw: scenes from movie "Death of Doctor Island"
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For Gerry's take to work, it would have had to been imagined like that from the beginning.
With footage shot like "yeah, we'll comp that background in later" or, "react to this non-existent thing on set" there is only so much you can do without a post production budget.

Actually, I've long wondered how many movies will flounder at this stage the more they make movies on greenscreen sets.  I've always figured people would start getting in waaaaaaay over their heads in regards to what they will actually be able to afford in post production.

~witz

On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 4/29/2011 2:45 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> 
>> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
>> 
>> 
>>>> I don't know what the deal with the CGI is. It seems to me that this
>>>> story could be done just fine without too much in the way of expensive
>>>> effects.
>>> 
>>> Inferring from the producers' bios, I would say it's likely that the CGI
>>> is the whole reason for doing the film, like a star vehicle is for
>>> showing
>>> off the star. They thing in their favor is that the tech advances and
>>> commoditizes so the longer it gets held up the cheaper it will become to
>>> finish.
>> 
>> But the actors will be too old to finish it!
> 
> I believe all the principal photography is done, and I imagine they have HD closeups of their bodies in various positions sufficient to make meshes of them to cover any virtual re-shoots that turn out to be necessary. The young Arnold appeared in T4, after all.
> 
> Remember the model scanning in LOOKER? We're there.
> 
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