Friday, October 20, 2006

What Frodo and Sam really saw - the miracles of Video Editing

What Frodo and Sam really saw when they looked at Mount Doom :) This shows you how much the film makers today depend on special effects in movies.

What you saw


What they saw

26 comments:

Art said...

The blue screen technology is really amazing. You're sort of ruining the illusion here:)

Cergie said...

Oh !
I'm not imparfait present, nabeel !
I'm cergie !
Imparfait present is a friend blogger.
Plus, I'm not the perfect wife of this male !!!
I'm a perfect female.

Now, I just awaked, I'll drive my daughter to cath her coach and then I'll come back home and read your post !!!

Phats said...

Intreresting! technology has come such a long way

Phats said...

Oops my spelling was great there,
Interesting is what i meant haha

chelle said...

Wow that is so different. I wonder if it is hard for the actors to be all OOoo and Ahhh at the "vision" they are suppose to see!?!?!

Cergie said...

What you saw, nabeel:
Moon

What I saw:
full moon

An astronomer would have done the difference.
The one at the top of thi message is just art !
The one you saw is not the one every body can see every 28 days in the sky.

Reflex said...

:) you can make a whole film in a small room.

(the pic on my blog is a small insect, a moth, it oftens gets misidentified as a hummingbird)

Nida said...

I loved all three movies!.Best of film ill say.
One really funny fact that hit me hard was that frodo and sam were having a convo and that frodo's part was shot 'one year' later, and then joined.

Diana said...

technology can surely work wonders....HAppy Diwali dear

Mile Stones said...

Hi Nabeel, I only know the book, not seen any of the films, so it can all only be visualized in my mind's eye anyway.
I just want to tell you before I rush out for a working Saturday that what you do here is incredibly refreshing. Your use of your videos is such a great added dimension, I tihkn it's totally brilliant. Now, Durrghh! I'm late - again!

Rob said...

awww dude! I didn't want to know that. Now everytime I watch that part I'll think of just a bunch of rocks with a blue screen...

It is pretty amazing what they can do though.

Mousie said...

very interesting for a kid to see that and to get to know the technical part of a movie...i don't agree with Art I think you make the illusion more extraordinary...kids usually love this sort of thing ...after they see some films with a different eye...but doesn't stop them from crying when mother bear is killed...
see you nabeel
Mousie

Kayla said...

What happens if the special effects computers are unplugged?
haha
Technology is cool

Anonymous said...

It's just cheaper to computer generate thing than to actually build/find them.

Corinne said...

Little wonder we don't believe what we see!

Tim Rice said...

Technology is fantastic when used in positive creative ways. And one does not know anymore whether a movie or picture reflects the actual.

Jas Bhambra said...

Agree with Tim. One really doesn't know what whether what a movie projects is the real look or the technologically "made-up" one.

Nevertheless, the LOTR special effects were awesome.

Rajesh Rana said...

Great.........

Annie said...

Ah Nabeel, you demonstrate why we cannot believe the camera.

To answer your question left on my blog about whether the squirrel house was built specifically for them - yes, it was. It's clearly visible from our family room. We will watch the squirrel families all year round.

EXSENO said...

It's amazing what they do with movies now days and wonderful too. I can remember when someone would play a part in a movie and pretend like they had a leg or an arm missing and you could tell it was so fake. Now they don't hide it they just do the film and edit the missing part out with tech tricks, it's so much more realistic.

Carmel said...

wow that is certainly different!

Sugarlips said...

This technology is so cool :)
You can dream about stuff & watch :)


Stay Beautiful..!!

Sarad said...

LOR is full of that. No wonder LOR didnt have much of a 'behind the scenes' or 'making of the movie' video or did it?

BiScUiTs said...

Hehe blimey, it's weird to think it was really that different. It's like we sort of know it's not real but don't at the same time.

ari4u said...

Did you ever get to see the bloopers of LOTR? They are funny.

aragorn said...

amazing...