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How was this film shot?

posted 15 years ago by groggo
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This film seemed to rely a lot on CGI, but I'm not sure. So many of the scenes looked 'more real than real'. Very peculiar, 'sharp' imagining. Any experts out there who can enlighten me?

I don't like CGI. When I see it, I get turned off immediately. I figure if a movie is going to be photographed, it should be photographed, not depend on technology for effect. It seems an easy way out, and disrespects the great cinematographers whose skills have graced the screen over the decades. But that's me. I'm sure many would disagree.

[–] duryodhana 15 years ago

it looked like they used a lot of HDR photos

[–] groggo 15 years ago

Thanks for the response, but I don't get out much and my mind is still in the 1950s. I don't know what 'HDR' means. Can you explain? Thanks a lot.

[–] guru-75 15 years ago

Haven't seen the film, but HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.
That would be a lot of dark stuff visible without becoming BLACK and a lot of light stuff visible without becoming WHITE in simple words.

There are many ways of achieving this,

and one of the most popular techniques (to which this term usually refers to) is combining two or more photographs with same content, but differently exposed.
For example, if you'd take a very sunny window of one photo, and a very dark room of another photo. The result would be a highly unlikely combination that may even get better dynamic range than our eyes have, which gives them a CGI feel, i guess....

hope i helped :)