From filmstalker, It seems that the Wachowski Brothers have other things up their sleeves after the new filming technique that they brought to the industry with Matrix as they do the same with Speed Racer. This time there's no bullet time and it's not just a few scenes, this time it's the whole film.
Apparently the Wachowski's are using brand new cameras and techniques to make sure that everything in the frame is in focus, and using high saturation film stock they are bringing out the colours to make it even closer to a comic book.
In a press junket for In The Valley of the Elah Collider and Tommy Lee Jones quiz Susan Sarandon on the camera and what's involved, and it sounds rather interesting.
“They’re using some high def thing that comes with guards and it’s beyond anything I’ve ever...They’re doing something where they’re layering film so that the front and the back are in focus like a cartoon and they’re also doing two dimensional and three dimensional stuff and mixing and everything is very, very saturated with some new kind of film, so they actually have to treat the actors in some way so we can hold our own with the background. So it’s every color that wasn’t in The Matrix is seriously in this film...
...they have these two big, huge, widescreen things…at the end of the day you can see how everything is going to be before it’s treated and they have a room of 200 or 300 guys that are doing all the background...”
It sounds a rather cool technique and it sounds like they are looking for a live action comic effect without the post production styling techniques from Sin City, it sounds like the style will be applied as they film.
1 comment:
That's interesting, but I wonder if it'll make one's eyes bug out of one's head like watching the parade at the end of Phantom Menace.
What's funny is that the titles for the original Speed Racer cartoon featured an animated version of a bullet time shot.
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