The Digital processes: Have they changed the look of Bond IYO?
chrisisall
Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
Films used to be straight up film. Some dye colour correction here, optical effects, fades & whatnot. Now with post being mostly digital, there's literally nothing they can't change on a whim. But in many instances the end result looks, well, digital to me...
A few years ago in my Photoshop class I learned just how difficult it could be to take a pristine digital image & MAKE it look like a film image. There's an art to it. But it also takes some time.
I've been comparing Bond from the 20th Century to Bond of this Century visually, and I think you can really spot a different look of the films beginning with DAD (not the crappy CGI- though there is that)... each film in succession looks a bit more 'digital' to my eye; a sharpness here, a strange contrast there, unusual colour bleaching or replacement...
I notice the same thing when comparing the latest Indy film with the older ones.
Is it just me? Anyone else see this?
A few years ago in my Photoshop class I learned just how difficult it could be to take a pristine digital image & MAKE it look like a film image. There's an art to it. But it also takes some time.
I've been comparing Bond from the 20th Century to Bond of this Century visually, and I think you can really spot a different look of the films beginning with DAD (not the crappy CGI- though there is that)... each film in succession looks a bit more 'digital' to my eye; a sharpness here, a strange contrast there, unusual colour bleaching or replacement...
I notice the same thing when comparing the latest Indy film with the older ones.
Is it just me? Anyone else see this?
Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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I've loved the look of CR and Skyfall, the only problem with QOS was
The scenery was so drab, so didn't look very good on screen ( only my
opinion).
Also Digital is the future, you might as well jump on board and get inventive
With it or maybe your films will begin to look dated etc.
People spoke out against "Sound" when it came to the movies, I'm certain
Some complained about colour being introduced.
So to quote Q, " It's called the future, get used to it !"
Hollywood every few decades. Now I-max is different. I'd love to see
Some scenes in Bond filmed in i-max ( as in the Batman films) some of
The set pieces look fantastic! {[]
Have been the fault of the 3D.
Have you watched the Bond series digital restoration featurette in the Blu-ray and last DVD set? Very interesting and a great selling point that opened my eyes (figuratively and literally speaking) when I noticed how my first DVD Bonds looked blurry in comparison. Supposedly they worked with the original negatives when possible, though the transfer process wasn't an exact science and a lot of the editorial decisions were made by the restoration team and to that I would wonder how much each of those technicians were initiated in color theory for the period of each Bond movie, etc., etc., vs. a technician using their subjective view on what a certain hue would look like.
Then, for the other half of the equation, I wonder how the first generation reels of the earliest Bond movies looked like on a premier movie screen? If you're like me, you would have grown up watching Bond on VHS and of course the broadcasts on network TV, but those were only as good as the quality of the source film used for the broadcasts and of course for home video, including Laser Discs; in that featurette, they mention how the source film would fade and accumulate layers of dirt, scratches, etc. and these are the copies they use for broadcasts and video transfers! In addition, the resolution of regular TV sets is another factor to consider and if you lived with a dad like mine, you'd think that the picture setting is fine until he walks into the living room and says, "there's too much red hue..." lol.
Would anyone know if the recent films were filmed in digital format? In regard to film quality, speed, grain and all those good things, I would think that there would be a discernable difference with digital footage and because current movies use more and more digital effects for aesthetic and practical purposes (altering backgrounds and objects in the distance), blending film and digital footage becomes another issue to consider.
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James Bond- Licence To Kill
Color is arguably better today than it was in the 1970s and 1980s, but I still don't think movies today really have that "big screen" quality they once used to. They mainly look like TV shows with a bigger budget, and some are even filmed that way, with lots of close ups, shaky cameras, and few of the sweeping vista shots of the past epics. That would include the Bond film series.
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
They do have "digital" in common
Anyway, my point was, perhaps the original films when brand spanking new had a similar glow to modern, digitalized films, possibly even more so than the digitally restored versions. My other point was, because of the new, digital techniques that are now standard, they can't help but go fully in and I think it's possible for them to get lost in the process and not notice how unnatural the product has gotten.
They went through the same process with b/w movies with unrealisitcally strong contrasts and similarly did this with Technicolor with coloring and tinting more vibrant than nature to best exploit the medium, because each era's medium requires an approach unique to its qualities.
+1, I though Skyfall had some of the great vista shots of the older films. {[]
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
As bad as listening to them without Earmuffs!
To upgrading, I probably wouldn't hear much of a difference.
I have seen very few films where 3D added anything useful to the experience (with exceptions such as Avatar, Pacific Rim and Guardians of the Galaxy). In fact, I'd say in most cases the 3D effects are more annoying than anything else. I normally would not pay the extra money to see a 3D version of a film, but in many instances I am taking my teenaged grandchildren with me and they seem to enjoy it. All that is to say that I don't have any particular interest in seeing a 3D Bond film.
Amazing shots for the action sequences . -{