paulfranklin.bsky.social
Filmmaker, 2x Oscar winning visual effects designer, Inception, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, various Harry Potters, Venom etc. Creative Director at beloFX. Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291518/
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This documentary was legendary at Psygnosis, the games company born out of the ruins of Imagine - I worked there for a couple of years in Liverpool in the early 90s. I also once went to a very nice drinks party at Ocean's office in Manchester.
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Personally, I wouldn't change a frame - it's perfect :-)
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Part of the fun of the movie for me is that Dutch and co have NO IDEA what they're getting into, but the viewer does have an inkling that it'll turn their world upside down whatever it is. When the creature arrives it doesn't disappoint, being waaay more deadly than you might have imagined. (cont)
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The use of the spaceship in the opening is a direct lift from Carpenter's THE THING (1981). I loved it as a reference when I first saw PREDATOR in the 80s - seemed a very deliberate callback to me, upping the anticipation of the creature's eventual arrival. (cont)
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My childhood memory is that power cuts were frequent in those days - probably mostly down to the 3 day week
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I remember the lights going out. We had a Coleman camping lamp, brought back from the States in 1971. It took some specific fuel, not easily available in Cheshire 1974, so my scientist Dad mixed up something it could use in his lab - and lo, there was light again in the house.
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I can imagine the client conversation: Client: "I hate it, can you do something else with a bit more vavavoom?" Artist: "No, sorry, we've already hit 'Max Creativity™'"
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"Max Creativity" - some kind of art-school superhero perhaps?
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When they were little they were mostly unimpressed with any of it! More recently there's been a grudging recognition that I'm not irredeemably uncool!
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Still higher res than the version that ran in 1K on my ZX81
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I loved being read to by my parents. And I greatly enjoyed reading my to my kids at bedtime - even when I was away on a show, in a different time zone, I’d carve out a a slot as often as possible and read to them over Skype.
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Just watched it with my son here in London. Such a beautiful film - delightful and profound.
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The one joke in 2001 - the instructions for use of the zero gravity toilet - still makes me laugh every time.
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Just saw this - amazing! Yes, really like seeing progression like this!
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Are you sure that isn’t a tube mouse on its way to a birthday party?
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Perfect!
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I remember being very surprised to hear the tune in the Doris Day Jimmy Stewart film, "so *that's* where it comes from!"
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Such a wonderful film - walks a beautifully judged line between romantic fantasy and reality. Perfectly cast in every role.
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His style was so distinctive! He was a very approachable guy - I swapped a few emails with him many years ago, very happy to discuss his work, and very encouraging.
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Love that book - never noticed the Chris Moore misattribution!
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Amazingly, it's rather like McDonalds - pretty much the same everywhere
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I found a Pret in NYC a few years ago, I was like "yeeees". Quite expensive though, even more so than London.
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Very sad to read about this. Was thumbing through my old Target Planet of the Daleks just the other night, and could see his face conjured up by Terrance Dicks' wonderfully concise prose. And I always loved that his Space 1999 character was called "Paul"
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Hoagy was almost as annoying as the crazy frog, so quite possibly an influence
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Forgot about those - I used them to mock up the final scene in Venom (“rolling, like a turd in the wind”)
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Fans rebuilt the set on location in 2015 - it’s still there as a tourist attraction
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It’s called Sad Hill Unearthed from 2017 (honestly thought it was more recent than that).
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It’s an absolute knockout - the cemetery scene is incredible. Did you see the doco a few years ago where they were excavating the set, like an archeological dig?
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Here’s the video tutorial I found - very clever. from b way motion - youtu.be/T98RVT5DzRo?...
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Here’s the original YouTube tutorial from b way motion - youtu.be/T98RVT5DzRo?...
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To be clear - the guy in the video tutorial discovered this (or found it somewhere else), I’m just standing on their shoulders, as it were :-)
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Sorry - *haven’t found a way*
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It doesn’t produce editable keyframes (I used to use a plugin that did - can’t remember what it was called) or at least I have found a way to expose them, but it’s fast and simple.
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Super fast to use and all within the vanilla application
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Note: you may have to hit the “analyze” button in the warp effect depending on what you’ve done within the nest.
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It’s a bit crude, but as you bring the motion smoothness closer to zero it reduces the amplitude of the final effect, but if you can’t get what you want then it’s a doddle to get the iPhone out and shoot another source clip and swap it out in the nest.
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If you want to adjust the wobble/shake you can go back into the nested clip and edit the shake source clip - change its frame rate, offset in the timeline, swap it out entirely for something else. You have a bit of control over amplitude in the warp effect applied in the main timeline
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You can then edit in the main timeline as usual, adding transforms, adjustment layers, fades, etc
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Once the analysis is done go back into the nested clip and turn off the video track with the wobble source clip. Go back to the main timeline and - hey presto - the inverse of the track is applied to the original clip within the nest
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Make sure the source wobble clip is above the clip you want to affect within the nest. Go back to the main timeline and drop a warp/stabilise effect onto the original nested clip. Open up effects settings, turn motion smoothness down to 4, change the tracking to position or position&scale
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I’ll post the link to the video tutorial I found later - in essence, choose the clip you want to affect, nest it, then open up the nested clip. Drop in a clip with the shake/wobble you like (can be anything, I’ve been shooting wobbly cam with my iPhone all day whenever I need a source clip)
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The audience reaction was brilliant - great fun throughout.
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Watched it on Leicester Square with my kids - we loved it!
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defo a shuttlecock - one of those plastic jobs with no feathers
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The old cameras are pretty precise - I don’t think the new generation of digital cameras would reveal anything that a pin-registered movement in a film camera wouldn’t reveal.
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The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden also has very well behaved patrons!