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Last night Jessie and I went to a test screening for Michael Mann's new one, Public Enemies. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi. John Dillinger and the birth of the FBI, supposedly. All I can say is, I really hope they keep working, and I hope there's some more footage developing the characters (especially Bale's) because as is, it's not there. And it's already 3 hours long. The bottom line: I didn't like it. It wasn't very good. But it could be made better by the time it's released, whenever next year.
But from a technical perspective it was really interesting to see a video print of what was basically raw camera work and only a guide track for sound. I assume the handheld will be digitally smoothed out, the inky night scenes brought up, the background noise and gunshots filled in (it was there, but unmixed and unconvincing). It gave me a view of what gets "fixed in post," and what a Hollywood film looks like without that finishing budget. It was a lot like seeing some high concept, period-piece DV local film that inexplicably starred big names.
Not that Open falls in the same category as a Michael Mann film, but seeing how a film looks before its finishing polish reminds me how much a difference that RACC money can (will?) make for the film.
Fingers motherfucking crossed.
Sitting in the corner on a live action shoot at Laika, blogging on my iPhone with a fading hangover. In the words of Erica, "Dear diary, today I watched a girl fall from the sky..." to which I added, "...over and over and over. I think she was an angel!"
But from a technical perspective it was really interesting to see a video print of what was basically raw camera work and only a guide track for sound. I assume the handheld will be digitally smoothed out, the inky night scenes brought up, the background noise and gunshots filled in (it was there, but unmixed and unconvincing). It gave me a view of what gets "fixed in post," and what a Hollywood film looks like without that finishing budget. It was a lot like seeing some high concept, period-piece DV local film that inexplicably starred big names.
Not that Open falls in the same category as a Michael Mann film, but seeing how a film looks before its finishing polish reminds me how much a difference that RACC money can (will?) make for the film.
Fingers motherfucking crossed.
Sitting in the corner on a live action shoot at Laika, blogging on my iPhone with a fading hangover. In the words of Erica, "Dear diary, today I watched a girl fall from the sky..." to which I added, "...over and over and over. I think she was an angel!"