Monday, March 12, 2007
Green screen versus on location.....
I had a question that i was pondering since i saw sky captain (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/) and recentley (last night) i saw 300 (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/), and was thinking to myself, What kind of influence does not filming things on location and rather filming infront of a green screen have on the overall artistic output of the film. In the eyes of the actor, your suposed to imagine yourself in some huge mountainuss landscape or in the ocean etc. and whe your physically looking around you may only see a bunch of cameras, crew and a big green screen and maybe some props, and your dressed like a pilot or something or in classic spartan garb, and it makes me wonder how does that effect the acting? I kind of wanted this to be like a question so please respond with any ideas im interested too see what others have to say. Just wanted to see what you guys thought. I guess the bigger question is how much technology is to much, or how distant from the art can you get before something is lost/changed.
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That is an interesting subject Corey. For me, I think that as technology improves and increases it may have an effect on the actors. Emotion especially physical emotion seems to be effected by the things around you. I could see how it would be extremely difficult to act scared of a green screen that later on will have a monster on it, or worried about that explosion that never really happened. So far the acting isnt so bad, but you raise a good question. When is enough enough
Good question, Corey, and I'm glad we also touched on this in class on Thursday. The issue of how digital technology changes art will be a major theme of the second half of the course. Maybe the judgement question you ask, when is enough enough, isn't the only way to think about it; the shift to virtual sets is already taking place. Sound film eclipsed silent film, and acting styles had to change with the coming of sound, leaving silent film acting behind. Chaplin and a few others continued to make films that were hybrids of both silent and sound styles into the 1930s. Maybe we'll look at Modern Times after break. Has anyone seen it?
Since humans react physically and emotionally accordingly to their environment. The acting would obviously suffer a little bit from shooting in front of a green screen. But the advantage is that we can "change" the settings, insert fancy digital effects to draw the attention away from the audience. There are also other ways to make up for unnatural acting, how about the idea of sound? Maybe a certain part of the movie would go mute. My point is that acting might be bad in front of green screens, but we can use all sorts of fancy effects to make up for it.
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