Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Groge511

Can i be a noob and ask why are we raving about 35mm?
What's the difference? :P
Is it because this will make the new films look more like the original trilogy since the prequels were shot in digital?
If so then i can understand and this is good news!

Basically yeah.

[Ben_UK]

Originally Posted by Cook

Dan Mindell as DOP and shooting on 35mm! I just read that Mindell is the one who introduced Abrams to lens flares and its because of him they show up so much. Let the lens flare *****ing commence.

Aren't they "fake" lens flares too? As in ones added in post production? I don't actually mind lens flares if they are natural as its a side effect of the anamorphic lens.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by Groge511

Can i be a noob and ask why are we raving about 35mm?
What's the difference? :P
Is it because this will make the new films look more like the original trilogy since the prequels were shot in digital?
If so then i can understand and this is good news!

so that the new films dont look like video games that get dated fast.

[klauswhereareyou]

Funny thing is that if they shot digital now, the films could actually look good as compared to AOTC and ROTS, but I still support this.

[Tok]

I really don't think this a step in the right direction. The future of film making is digital. The digital cameras are improving dramatically in each cycle. The reality is that today's film stock is going to be significantly better than what was used on the original trilogy. So as far as matching the look of the original films neither film or digital will 'match' the look. Matching the look will be done in the art department.

[Geoff D]

It's true that the film will look far glossier than its 35mm predecessors - see Indy IV compared to the other three - but it'll still have the familiar anamorphic foibles which will help to ground the visual effects. It'll be the best of both worlds, with the sharpness of a modern digital finish and the classic look of anamorphic.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Aragorn the Elfstone

Not to encourage the reemergence of the subject or anything , but I really find it funny because I never really noticed or cared about the "lens flare" before people started going on and on about it. Now I love it because it seems to get people so riled up. and overjoyed.

nobody cared when the first one appeared on the screen but when you hit the 100th, it tends to tick people off especially when there is still an hour of movie left to go and the flare is coming off of an apple or something silly like that

interesting idea to film it in 35mm. truthfully, I was never sure what the whole digital/35mm fight was about. a theatre doesn't care how it was shot - they will still get a digital version of it if they want. other than a little more hassle, who cares? it will still be edited, color corrected and all that in a computer just like digital will so if they want to do it that way, I say go hard.

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

FILM! FILM! FILMFILMFILMFILM! Still not sure about Abrams as director (seeing how he's not really a half mad visionary like Lucas was), but who cares? FILM! At least it won't be eye piercingly sharp like many others are (looking at you, Muppets). Although I do question how much he's going to use it, since he used Red cameras in a couple of shots in his last couple of movies (Super 8 And Star Trek 12).

Originally Posted by Tok

I thought Digital was the future of film making. I could care less how it's filmed. Time will tell if this is a step in the right direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

[Taipan]

Ooh yay, 35mm. Let me know if they decide to film on 70mm, then I might give a shit. Until then,it's still just another Star Wars.

[Scorpion Soldier]

Surprising that this is being filmed on actual film. Now J.J., could we get some IMAX scenes to go with it?

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Nerdkiller likes BD

FILM! FILM! FILMFILMFILMFILM! Still not sure about Abrams as director (seeing how he's not really a half mad visionary like Lucas was), but who cares? FILM! At least it won't be eye piercingly sharp like many others are (looking at you, Muppets). Although I do question how much he's going to use it, since he used Red cameras in a couple of shots in his last couple of movies (Super 8 And Star Trek 12).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

please don't call it Star Trek 12 - call it by its real name: "Space Seed/Wrath of Khan mash-up"

[fiveseven4combat]

Originally Posted by Nerdkiller likes BD

FILM! FILM! FILMFILMFILMFILM! Still not sure about Abrams as director (seeing how he's not really a half mad visionary like Lucas was), but who cares? FILM! At least it won't be eye piercingly sharp like many others are (looking at you, Muppets). Although I do question how much he's going to use it, since he used Red cameras in a couple of shots in his last couple of movies (Super 8 And Star Trek 12).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

Hahahaha love the video

[srinivas1015]

This would mean that the 3D won't be native .

[starman15317]

I'm shocked that they are doing this but I'm down with it.

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

please don't call it Star Trek 12 - call it by its real name: "Space Seed/Wrath of Khan mash-up"

Ehhh. I'll make up my own title once I rent it next month.

[rewak]

Really don't get why they'd shoot something on 35mm that's going to have a crap load of digital effects added post production and then projected digitally to the vast majority of cinemas because none of them have 35mm projectors anymore. Unless they go back to the old method of in camera effects, puppets, models, etc then really, why?

[principehomura]

It's the same as John Carter, isn't it?

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

Originally Posted by rewak

Really don't get why they'd shoot something on 35mm that's going to have a crap load of digital effects added post production and then projected digitally to the vast majority of cinemas because none of them have 35mm projectors anymore. Unless they go back to the old method of in camera effects, puppets, models, etc then really, why?

The choice of what to film the movie with and the use of special effects are two completely different things.

Originally Posted by principehomura

It's the same as John Carter, isn't it?

Unless the movie is going to be in development hell for years, then I don't see it.

[principehomura]

Originally Posted by Nerdkiller likes BD

The choice of what to film the movie with and the use of special effects are two completely different things.

Unless the movie is going to be in development hell for years, then I don't see it.

I meant: same director of cinematography... and John Carter too was filmed on 35mm if I remember well.

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

Originally Posted by principehomura

I meant: same director of cinematography... and John Carter too was filmed on 35mm if I remember well.

Ahhh. It's just that the post was sort of out of context.