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ok why are greenscreens green

>>211887886
Greenscreens used to be blue.

>>211887728 (OP)
what do breasts feel like?

>>211887979
Like a baaaag of sand

>>211887972
Then why they changed them?

Why have they never made a Jaws-style movie about a pack of Wolves? "The Grey" doesn't count.

Why did people stop using the expression "special effects" in 2020?

Why is Batman the Animated Series so popular in China?

>>211887886
>>211887972

Common sense. Green is usually easier to avoid than blue. Unless you are filming Narnia. That one still cracks me up. They had actors wearing green cloth for keying on agrarian locations. Couldn´t use that for shit and had to roto everything by hand.

>The best boy grip is the right hand of the key grip and runs the daily operation of the grip team, including managing all of the other grips.

How come key grips get sidekicks, but film directors don't?

>>211888509
whats roto?

>>211887728 (OP)
What does kinogriography mean? I keep seeing it but I don't want to expose myself.

Why are people jumping on diddy like his parties were over the top when Hollywood parties are often said to be filled with drugs, sex and whores wall to wall. Is it because he is black?

>>211888878
Kino is Greek for motion.
Graphe is Greek for "writing."
Put the two together and you have something like 'recorded motion' or "movie."

4chan uses the term because of its classicist leanings.

>>211888991
Diddy was the initiator. In Hollywood, it is the would-be starlet who rapes the director, hoping for a big break.

Top-down abuse vs Bottom-up

>>211888814
Rotoscoping is when you film real humans, but then animate over it. I can be kinda janky, but looks great when done well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq3cKWX11Fo

>>211888473
I can think of 64 reasons. If you know what I mean.

>>211888139
When they shot on film the way blue screen worked was when you were chemically processing the film you could just make it so that specific color is isolated and made transparent so you can then overlay that on top of the background or special effect, or whatever you wanted. It was blue because that was just the easiest color to use for the process for film.
When you started shooting on video you could theoretically remove any color, and they eventually went for green because it lights better, and is less common in wardrobes.

>>211888814
It's short for rotor.

>>211889226
>looks great when done well
It always stands out like a sore thumb to me, even when I was a kid and saw gandalf leap up on that rock (and has a wardrobe malfunction but they didn't bother doing a second). Or when it showed up in disney movies.
The only time I think I've seen it where it didn't annoy me (besides the aha video) is Linklater's Waking life and Scanner Darkly where its intentionally supposed to be a highly surreal and stylized live action movie and not someone showing me TRACING! and not animation.
I'm being intentionally autistic about it, but it always just comes off as weird.

>>211888397
replaced with CGI

>>211889034
>4chan uses the term because of its classicist leanings.

Speaking of which, was Aristotle (Nic. Eth. 1175b) correct when he suggested that theatre goers do not munch on popcorn when the movie is good, so enthralled are they.

>The same thing occurs in other cases when a man tries to do two things at once; the pleasanter activity drives out the other, the more so if it is much more pleasant, until the other activity ceases altogether. Hence, when we enjoy something very much, we can hardly do anything else; and when we find a thing only mildly agreeable, we turn to some other occupation; for instance, people who eat sweets at the theater do so especially when the acting is bad.

>>211887728 (OP)
Hey guys, do any of you know a 2000-2020 movie that features a black motel owner trying to get a liver for her dying alcoholic husband who tapes 40s to his hands?
There's also a luchador hitman that goes berserker and blacks out to kill people, killing a girl's dad at her own quincenera (birthday party)
There's a white guy with a nazi tattoo who meets up with his black friend after jail

>>211889609
>Using FX as shorthand for effects
Also, this was dumb.

>>211887728 (OP)
Once I’m finished with my screenplay who am I supposed to send it to?

Could have Burt Reynolds played a good James Bond?

>>211890015
I think you're supposed to sit next to a film director on an airplane and wow him somehow. 0_0

>>211890061
Too swarthy.

>>211890061
what’s with the typo in Nelson?

>>211887728 (OP)
There is no such thing as a stupid question...only stupid people asking questions.

How do they film mirrors?

>>211888397
Because "Special Effects" refers to something very specific in film making. Practical in camera things. And you had a team of guys you would give your idea to, and they would have to figure out how to make it happen.
Also, up until the 2000's big effects heavy movies were actual magic tricks, and half of the fun of watching them was trying to figure out how they did it.
I remember when discovery channel was still based they used to have a show called "Movie Magic" that were behind the scenes footage of production, usually ILM or Rhythm & Hues.
And back then it was every trick in the book, miniatures, rear screen projection, filming in reverse, compositing, filming in high speed, forced perspective, puppets, prosthetics, animations, etc. etc.
There's no real movie magic when every movie is a bloated CGI nightmare where no matter how epic a set piece is there isn't any reason to be impressed or wonder how they did it because its clearly an actor on a green screen and 40,000 sweatshops full of koreans and jeets.
Film is a magic trick, its an illusion, from the gestalt effect of showing single frames fast enough it tricks your brain, to the way editing and music and cinematography creates a visual language that can carry a story on its own, and when you get a death star, or nakatomi tower exploding, or a shark eating people, or a cruise ship flips over, or ben hur riding a chariot, and that's the equivalent of making the statue of liberty disappear.

Why are Star Wars fans like this?

>>211890483
why does everything in Star Wars have to be some unique Star-Wars-original thing? characters had shoes, and hats, what if they were just clothes from the real world? that you could go and buy?

the probe droid's syringe says "British Made" on it, because it's just a syringe from some British manufacturer. not a LaserCorp Mk 2 Precision Injector.

>>211890483
>chaos breaks out
>niggers immediately start looting
many such cases

>>211890483
Anon, its a big franchise with a bunch of characters and an expanded universe mining every single last recognizable thing for the comics, books, and movies.
Its funny that there's a guy in a very wide shot who is only notable for carrying an ice-cream maker.
Sort of how like way way back in the day I was an ironic jack black fan, back when he was "That guy!" who was just a character actor taking really bit parts in random shit. And if someone mentioned "Cable guy" I'd be like "oh yeah, the jack black movie, I love him!" then they'd go "Who the fuck is Jack Black?"
How times have changed.

>>211887728 (OP)
Where do people get the money to finance their films? Even “independent” films nowadays have a budget of 6 million.

>>211890709
>Sort of how like way way back in the day I was an ironic jack black fan
In the spirit of shameful confessions, I will admit to having once liked Kevin Smith.

Oddly enough, the only thing he ever touched to have aged well is the Clerks cartoon, which is still kind of funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGbgAisf6_c

Why is Hollywood so hyper focused on horror since 2020? Tactic to keep the masses afraid? Or just because it's cheaper and has a bigger monetary gain.

>>211890777
Back in the day, you just had to ask your dentist. Things were better then.

>Mad Max had a $400,000 budget that came from the personal money of Miller and his partner, Byron Kennedy, co-owners of their production company Kennedy Miller Productions, and a group of dentists who served as investors. Mad Max became one of the biggest dystopian movies of all time, reaching $100 million at the box office ($410 million when adjusted for inflation), a huge feat for an independent film.

>The Evil Dead is a horror cult classic was only made because of funding that comes from rich Hollywood dentists. Raimi and Bruce Campbell shot a preview of The Evil Dead in a Super 8 camera. They took the preview to dentists' dinner parties in Hollywood to try and find investors for the gory horror movie.

>Back when James Cameron was 24 years old, he wanted to make a short film called Xenogenesis. To do so, Cameron borrowed a small sum of money from a bunch of dentists and was able to produce his short movie that then landed his first job in the industry: devising practical effects for Roger Corman. This would be the beginning of a series of collaborations between them, a list that includes Terminator 2.

etc. etc. etc.

>>211890979
it's cheap. the new final destination made nearly $300m on a budget of $50m.

>>211891272
It would have made double had the movie featured exposed floppy tits. Why would Hollywood merchants refuse free money like that?

>>211890777
>checked
Depends, you're in the era of crowdfunding.
I'm pretty sure Sam Rami got the first evil dead's budget by going around to dentist in the Kalamazoo area and begging for an investment.
If you're a bigger studio you've got all kinds of groups willing to put in some money for production (This is why sometimes you see a movie with 50 different studio logos at the beginning, all those people gave them money).
And the way movies are made, bought, and sold means you don't really need to worry about if the movie actually shows a profit all that really matters is if you can sell it to a distributor for enough money that you can pay off everyone at the front of the line for payback. Studios go out of their way to make it look like their movies DON'T make their money back. Peter jackson had to sue newline cinema because they continued to claim up until they were bought that the lord of the rings never showed a profit, because as soon as it hits the black they owe everyone who had back-end points. (basically after the movie makes its money back, you'd be owed a certain percentage in perpetuity of every penny it makes after that, different from royalties).
And at the end of the day, movie production is a FANTASTIC way to launder money.

>>211891378
>Kalamazoo
Fakest place name ever

If the Warhammer TV show ever gets made, will women watch it?

>>211891272
Yeah and I get that but there are horror movies coming out weekly now when before there were like 7 or 8 a year and mostly in September/October. Not only do they seem more common but they get wider distribution especially in movie theaters.

>>211891595
For example 28 years later just came out and Megan 2.0 comes out next week

>>211891451
Michigan, man. A lot of places have names that were butchered from some indian word into french and then into english.
I honestly don't know why my brain always associates Raimi with kalamazoo, he's from north Detroit and went to school in Lansing.

>>211889847
CGI is short for FX.

>>211889847
it's an initialism that's ALSO an acronym.

that is linguistic kino, fuck you.

Why do a handful of D - Z listers keep getting side character roles that
1. break immersion, realizing its a side character actor I've seen 100 times before
2. Have to pay them more than giving a random no-name a shot because they're established
Pheobe from friends as the therapist in neighbors is the first one that comes to mind but it's everywhere

>>211887886
Digital sensors with a Bayer filter array have twice as many green photoreceptors than blue or red and therefor twice the colour resolution. This means sharper edges when keying.

The reasons for this are complex but it mirrors our own eyes which are more sensitive to green light than any other

>>211887972
90s nerd fashion was on point. Dude looks like advanced amish.