As a film director I find Greig so humble and honest and I’d love to cooperate with more people like that than with those along the race for ego, over-beauty and perfect frame. Thank you from the depth of my heart!!!
curious how they monitored for exposure, was it through the ninja? were they using old school light meters? false color? on a big production like this, but done so run and gun style, i’m curious how they did it
As a director, this has got to be my favorite interview with filmmakers I've ever listened to. I learned so much from all three of these guys. Was literally taking notes! Thank you for this valuable resource!
I wish I could ask these guys some questions......absolutely LOVED ANDOR, my most fave live action of ALL SW ......how about the use of Hexagons, heptagons (7 sided) and Octagons? All throughout the show....
Dammit! I would totally have given this a go, but I'll have no time! Next year, I guess. Not that I would have won, but I would have enjoyed the challenge. Good luck to the rest of you!!
Pretty sure the Mike Yanagita scene in Fargo existed to remind Marge that people lie, especially in the big city, thus inspiring her to visit Jerry Lundegaard a second time.
I just came across this video and really enjoyed getting a chance to hear from a few of the brilliant minds behind Andor. I've been obsessed with the show since it came out, and recently bought the Season 1 4K blu-ray. I've concluded that one of the reasons I love the show so much is it takes us so far into the dark underbelly of the Star Wars world - far more detail than anything that has come before. It's more like one of the SW Extended Universe novels which were better at creating Star Wars immersion than the movies or shows. When Blade Runner 2049 came out in 2017, I loved the gritty, brutal world-building in that movie, but I craved more and never got it. That is, until Andor season 1 dropped. This is the deep-dive into the BR-2049 dystopia that Denis Villeneuve didn't have time to give us. Thrilled to know many of the same people are working on Andor Season 2.
Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it even though I'm not versed on many of the technical terms. When they were comparing the 2001 vs the Barbie opening they mentioned using the same "plates" as Kubrick. Could someone explain what the term plates refers to? thanks in advance!
“Lawrence Of Arabia” was shot spherically (Super Panavision 70) and has an aspect ratio of 2.20:1. “Ben-Hur” was shot with anamorphic lenses (Ultra Panavision 70), giving it an aspect ratio of 2.76.1.
When real sunlight isn't possible. Idk how many people know this, but Sun photons come in parallel. (Or basically parallel) I think that is the trick. It may take a huge wall of leds to get that parallel look. If you really think about it. The sun has a massive volume that is like a million times bigger than Earth. We only received an Earth sized wall of photons from the sun as it travels from the surface of the sun to the surface of earth. The rest just travels on into space. That's also how we detect exo planets. It blocks that light. During golden hour, photons are traveling sideways, amd the blue atmosphere isn't completely lit up like it is at high noon. Think of a wall of nukes constantly going off in the far distance. I'm just a graphic artist, but I've thought about this sunlight problem for a while. I believe it is possible to emulate better. Minus a real wall of nukes from space 😆
Also I have honestly never understood the need for 2nd unit! The amount of time the main unit director has had to come over to take control or we have to wait until they get the 'executive' decision from the 'top' before we can move on. Or reshoots because the style that the 2nd unit shot is way different from what the director envisioned.
I have worked in the movie industry for over 30 years and I agree totally with what Gareth said regarding they go about making movies completely wrong nowadays. They still use methods they were using 50 years ago!!! They waste SOOOOOOOOO much money doing countless shots because there are too many chiefs with too many ideas and also a lot of the time, don't really know what they are doing. Lets put 5 cameras on a scene and shoot it from all angles, loads of takes and then hopefully make it work in the edit! I still bang my head against a (virtual) brick wall!!
trying to square the director Gareth was one (1) month ago during this terrific interview talking passionately about keeping things simple and within reasonable budgets & how exciting that is as a writer/director against the alternative big budget films... to today - one month (1) later - where he's apparently taking over the Jurassic franchise - a franchise that ran up a budget of 380 million on their last effort just two years ago. like, what? lying > creative control
Garreth has fun making his films like Creator and using his methods but has been taking checks - Star Wars? Godzilla? He can work with a bigger budget if they want but he can do it with less. He ain’t lying. Look up his interview on Godzilla and how it felt weird to him having such a big budget. No lie. He is like Tony Stark. He can build it in a cave if need be or build it in a high tech lab. Ain’t no lie. And because he delivers he gets more freedom.
I've always loved the theater experience, but I didn't realize how fiercely protective I was of it until the pandemic. I'm pretty sure I was as pissed as the filmmakers when WB decided to stream their whole slate (even Dune for christ's sake!). Glad Joseph and co were able to keep Top Gun in the theater where it should have always been, and the audience proved them right.
I'm sure they were quite relieved to hear how much the fandom loved Andor...and for all the reasons these guys worked so hard to achieve. The costumes and sets were bang on. I don't remember what YT channel it was, but they made the statement along the lines of, "These guys are supposedly not necessarily Star Wars fans, but they clearly respect it". Everyone was mesmerized by the set dressing alone. It was always worth going through each set piece and just pausing it to get a good look.
ooh come on... release it for android too... gosh why do apple have every single good apps in its store... we android users don't even get a chance to use it... i know sorting for apple is easy, but hey, there are thrice many android users than apple... or just release it for android tablets
