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Endurances of people are amazing...
Apr. 7th, 2004 12:30 pmI know this is going to sound extremely silly, but I have the utmost appreciation and respect for Weta workshop and all of the crew and craftsmen for Lord of the Rings. I've been playing the Appendix dvds while working on my finals and just WOW. Whenever I feel like giving up, I just turn to the DVD and watch the people in it explain how they made the film.
Think about it, so much of the film's settings are made from BIGATURES! Fricken HUGE minatures! The one for Isengard was the size of a rugby field! And they were talking about how their minature was so good that it be on the film for a minute, ONE BLOODY MINUTE! Months and months of carving, assemblage, painting, glazing, for only one minute of film and that's GOOD!!
Costuming. Costuming was basically cloning. They had to clone so many costumes for the hobbits! Like ten costumes for Elijah, ten costumes for his double, and it went on from there! Every little detail had to be put to proportion and reproduced, every little stripe on someone's blouse, the batting and quilting has to be exact for Merry's vest, EVEN THE BUTTONS ARE REPRODUCED TO EXACT PROPORTIONS!
And one guy single handidly made all the chain mail by HAND! They figured out a new way to make chain mail out of plastic rings! Chain mail in previous films were knitted and then spray painted, but not LOTR chainmail! They had to make it so exact that one guy had to do it all! That's friggen dedication... and that's a whooooleee lot of chain mail considering Gimli wears tons of it, plus the Rohirrim, Gondorians, and all the ORCS!
The film editors. Words cannot express the respect I have for them. Color, sound, editing, cging... oh my gosh, I can't even explain!
The cast probably had the easiest job in the entire trilogy. And their job wasn't easy at all! Acting involves a lot of eye contact, but because of the scale issues, the hobbits couldn't make eye contact with the other actors a great deal of the time! Then there's the whole blue screen thing where there's absolutely nothing but a big blue screen to act out a scene, and that's bloody difficult to get into it without scenery and background!
So anyone with the appendix dvds, WATCH THEM. THEY ARE GOOD. There are several clips I want to show to my color theory teacher, which I'm planning to do next Monday, drag my laptop in and show him the color editing (THE COLOR EDITING IS THE ABSOLUTE MOST COOLEST THING IN DA WORLD!!)
The fact that LOTR movies are now my most favorite movies in the world, and are the most gorgeous, most artistic, most creative movies in the world are confirmed over and over whenever I watch the Appendix dvds. It's incredible that these DVDs are about as long as the movies, and there's SIX OF THEM! I cannot wait til ROTK comes out, not just for the movie, but for the APPENDIXES! Now I am even more determined to meet the people who made LOTR. They are such an inspiration and right now, they are keeping me from getting stressed out. For the first time during finals, I'm progressing very smoothly, I'm not tired, and I'm getting lots of work done! A lot of it is results from, "Wow, they worked on these films for eight fricken years! There were most likely tons of sleepless nights, lots of tears, lots of frustrations, but they kept going! Every moment they could've ghettofied something, they DIDN'T and took the hard, more elaborate way around. If they can suck it up for eight years and show something THIS GORGEOUS, then I can suck it up for four weeks and it'll be NOTHING!"
Wow. Just wow. I wanna make movies now *_* Someone teach me how to use iMovie!!!
Think about it, so much of the film's settings are made from BIGATURES! Fricken HUGE minatures! The one for Isengard was the size of a rugby field! And they were talking about how their minature was so good that it be on the film for a minute, ONE BLOODY MINUTE! Months and months of carving, assemblage, painting, glazing, for only one minute of film and that's GOOD!!
Costuming. Costuming was basically cloning. They had to clone so many costumes for the hobbits! Like ten costumes for Elijah, ten costumes for his double, and it went on from there! Every little detail had to be put to proportion and reproduced, every little stripe on someone's blouse, the batting and quilting has to be exact for Merry's vest, EVEN THE BUTTONS ARE REPRODUCED TO EXACT PROPORTIONS!
And one guy single handidly made all the chain mail by HAND! They figured out a new way to make chain mail out of plastic rings! Chain mail in previous films were knitted and then spray painted, but not LOTR chainmail! They had to make it so exact that one guy had to do it all! That's friggen dedication... and that's a whooooleee lot of chain mail considering Gimli wears tons of it, plus the Rohirrim, Gondorians, and all the ORCS!
The film editors. Words cannot express the respect I have for them. Color, sound, editing, cging... oh my gosh, I can't even explain!
The cast probably had the easiest job in the entire trilogy. And their job wasn't easy at all! Acting involves a lot of eye contact, but because of the scale issues, the hobbits couldn't make eye contact with the other actors a great deal of the time! Then there's the whole blue screen thing where there's absolutely nothing but a big blue screen to act out a scene, and that's bloody difficult to get into it without scenery and background!
So anyone with the appendix dvds, WATCH THEM. THEY ARE GOOD. There are several clips I want to show to my color theory teacher, which I'm planning to do next Monday, drag my laptop in and show him the color editing (THE COLOR EDITING IS THE ABSOLUTE MOST COOLEST THING IN DA WORLD!!)
The fact that LOTR movies are now my most favorite movies in the world, and are the most gorgeous, most artistic, most creative movies in the world are confirmed over and over whenever I watch the Appendix dvds. It's incredible that these DVDs are about as long as the movies, and there's SIX OF THEM! I cannot wait til ROTK comes out, not just for the movie, but for the APPENDIXES! Now I am even more determined to meet the people who made LOTR. They are such an inspiration and right now, they are keeping me from getting stressed out. For the first time during finals, I'm progressing very smoothly, I'm not tired, and I'm getting lots of work done! A lot of it is results from, "Wow, they worked on these films for eight fricken years! There were most likely tons of sleepless nights, lots of tears, lots of frustrations, but they kept going! Every moment they could've ghettofied something, they DIDN'T and took the hard, more elaborate way around. If they can suck it up for eight years and show something THIS GORGEOUS, then I can suck it up for four weeks and it'll be NOTHING!"
Wow. Just wow. I wanna make movies now *_* Someone teach me how to use iMovie!!!
