Science fiction/Film

One of the interesting points of this lecture I found was, the idea that could digital model surpass handmade model. later we discussed this further in our Seminar. There are clear advantages to digital model and special effects, the fact that we can achieve things that aren't physically possible in this world is amazing. On the other I find most CGI looks quite fake and unbelievable. we talked about this and looked into why this is usually the case. we decided it was because the images/ models are too perfect, to clean, there isn't enough noise to fool us into believing its real, hence the world is not clean and perfect. trying to capture this feeling is difficult and would be better to replicate in model, in my opinion.

Also we touched on Blue-screening, actors having to imagine what's in front of them and giving a realistic response.  now I believe your never going to get the same response as you would if there was some huge dragon stuck in your face but we have to accept this isn't always possible in some instances. A film that used this really well was Alien, the scene where the Alien bursts from a man's chest. None of the actors new, what it was going to actually look like until it was actually happening. This was great, they used element of surprise,shock and horror to get the perfect response that was real! I believe one of the woman actually fell down in shock. This scene was filmed only once, which I think was right, with a second shoot you would lose that surprised response and wouldn't be as real.