TTT Extras 5: Screencaps from the extras compared to final film versions.

[mechtild]

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As was the case for the FotR bonus materials, the extras for TTT contain bits of footage from the films that looks different from the way it appears in the final cuts. Sometimes it is because the sequence shown in a “making of” segment or in a trailer has not yet been digitally graded (changing the colour), or has been graded differently.

Comments

[mechtild]

Ah, Mews, can't you just *imagine* the beauty and clarity of the Frodo material, just based on the difference between the Trailer frames and "final cut" frames of Aragorn and Arwen's material?

I heave a HUGE sigh of pleasurable anticipation: someday, these shots will be available. I just hope I'm not dead my then! :)

[theartoffic]

wow, these are amazing! I love seeing the comparison between the originals and graded shots. I would love to see more of the untouched footage too! Thanks you for sharing this! :D

[mechtild]

I would love to see more of the untouched footage too!

So far, that makes three of us! Maybe we could send a petition? ;)

[aliensouldream]

You have such a magnificent eye for color! And how clever of you to spot the re-used flipped frames. It's lovely to have some of these ungraded shots. And the unseen moments of Frodo are amazing. Thank you very much. Always so much beauty to be found here! :-)

[mechtild]

Isn't it interesting, the difference a change in colour makes? No wonder they use digital grading; it really affects the mood without the viewer even being aware of it.

The art design people (or PJ or both) on these films must have had a wonderful and trying time making their minds up which way to go, colourwise, for each scene. I wish they'd release an un-graded album of shots, though. I really adore being able to see the actual colours for all the super costumes and props, as well as the actors.

[anonymous]

Mechtild ~ I love Frodo's expression on the unused ROTK 'I need you by my side' shot. You are so observant to notice the flipped shot of Frodo waiting for Gollum to pounce ~ I've recently made screencaps of the scene where Frodo is listening to Boromir and Aragorn on the riverbank, and would never have made the connection

[mechtild]

Isn't that a great shot that wasn't used? He looks very mature in it, and very much a thinking person. I wonder what he was actually playing in the scene? Having seen how shots got shuffled around according to changing script needs, maybe it was his reaction to some line that got struck

[anonymous]

Thanks so much for the links to those earlier entries, Mechtild. I'm sure I saw them first time around, but I enjoyed browsing through them again, and made sure to save
them all too.

The lilac 'eyelashes' screencaps are simply gorgeous ~ again, that specific shot didn't appear in either the theatrical or extended FOTR films, though how it didn't make the final edit I will never know. I can see I'm going to have to find time to trawl through those teaser trailers and extras yet again. Such a chore!

~ Blossom.

[mechtild]

It's also very lovely seeing "Angelic Osgiliath Frodo" from the TTT trailer again (...) the shot wasn't in the film! That was a disappointment for sure. (...) My God, he looks beautiful there.

Hi, Maeglian! Yes, he looks *out of this world*. "Angelic Osgiliath Frodo" -- I love that! I understand the reason they graded the film, setting the mood, but, for sheer beauty, the ungraded caps are the best. You are absolutely right. I want an ungraded LotR!!! (Or at least a "highlights of" abridged version.)