it is still hard. CGI requires long hours of labor too. but now days people just dismiss it as if it's something easy. saying "that's just CGI". problem is, producers and directors who are not familiar with CGI also think it's something easy, and are unwilling to pay enough money to the CG artists.
@David Jacobs yea the reasons why movies are so expensive these days is because the over use of CGI practical effects aren't gonna go away as they are just too dam conventional and low cost
@@davidjacobs8558people dismiss CGI not because they think it's easy, but because it took out all the creativity and inventions you needed to make a movie while using as less money as possible, and amaze tge crowds... People used to look at a movie and wondered "wow, how did they manage to do that scene" while now, you already know it's just CGI and you rate how good or bad it is, which is boring... The only thing movies have fun now is the story and acting
@@BurritoFireo96 Most narrators are just the people who made the video. I don’t know if this narrator was hired specifically to narrate, but if he was it would allow them to look for someone with conviction in their voice. They also may have a larger budget for sound equipment.
@@dmc1943 yeah their mic quality’s always sounds so crisp and well-mixed. Impressive honestly, for a youtube channel to be able to maintain this level of quality over a span of several years, and that goes for both independent and non independent channels
Crazy how Star Wars still holds up today!! And ILM deserve a ton of praise because without this film, they wouldn’t have been able to do more Star Wars films and other movies as well!!
Hi StudioBinder. I don't think I ever thanked you for sharing your documentaries on youtube. They are always interesting as well as entertaining. Thanks.
I designed saber and sword prop sounds for a decade (no joke). I have been inspired by Ben Burtt for decades. It's hard to believe that I've crafted over 9000 sounds. And now, I've designed a ton for my own project and series ("Diamond Dragons"). 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
All this stuff was common knowledge for geeks of my generation but you're doing the Lord's work here, teaching the youngins that special effects didn't begin with CGI.
VistaVision isn’t a film stock, but a wide-screen format camera that had been more or less forgotten. While it is true that film grain was an important factor, the registration of this format (also the base for IMAX later) moving laterally (rather than vertically) through the shutter, and the registration system, made for a much more stable frame, avoiding the sort of registration error that could undermine any mattes or rotoscoping. There were ma,y optical probs that had to be overcome for this to work, but you get the gist.
My favourite shots are both the Millennium Falcon being drawn into the Death Star (the sense of dread and doom the music inspires) and it leaving, as the engines whir up and the music accelerates to give that sense of the start of the escape.
Say what you will, but I like these effects so much more than CGI. CGI effects, especially nowadays, always look murky and blurry (because they are trying to add "atmosphere" to place the ships into the scene). I prefer the sharp and solid look we see here.
Since i also edit videos I can understand how difficult it was back then. They had to actually make a camera and computer for it on a string budget 😮 so if something was wrong in the shot they had to refilm and remake it. Now we can see it while we make it with a click of a button
The narrator of the channel has the best way to explain a content/topic/subject. Thank you, sir. May you live ages so that we can listen to you all the time. Please tell me the name of the narrator.
I saw this in theater as a child. From that day forward I was interested in filmmaking and SPFX. From that day forward, I wanted to work with ILM. Well I don’t work for ILM, but I am involved in filmmaking and SPFX today! Thanks George Lucas!
@@jesustovar2549 not that it's relevant to this conversation, but I started as a graphic designer in 1989, and I got into web development around 1996. It seemed like the most profitable way to use my degrees and those fields were in high-demand at the time. I didn't think that working in Hollywood film production was even an option, though I now know it was. Why do you ask?
Amazing how 1970s and 1980s movies are much better than today's! "Star Wars"(1977), "Alien"(1979), "The Empire Strikes Back"(1980), "Return of the Jedi"(1983) and "Aliens"(1986) are THE BEST SCI-FI MOVIES EVER-EVER-EVER! *** I really hope one lucky day I can finally buy 4K or 8K "THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY(1977,1980,1983.)" Digitally restored unaltered original theatrical version! *** Everything that happened to Star Wars since 1997 is a crime against humanity!
My debut film 'Miss Scarlet' will be released soon. Thanks to Studio Binder for helping me to be the director. One day, Studio Binder will explain my directing style in the playlist of director's playbook. Remember the name, Baliram Chauhan (The B.C)
All the work that went into making the original trilogy is a huge part of what makes it so special and why it's the best Star Wars trilogy and story. Cannot beat the original trilogy.
making of Star Wars with practical effects is as mind-blowing as the movie! i am a Star Wars kid, and just loved this video. The commentary spoke exactly what i feel of star wars
Its crazy how much this one movie changed the game. George certainly bit off more than he could chew with this production but luckily he was surrounded by immense talent that bailed him out.
Love the fact this movie actually was kinda low budget, comparing the time, but Lucas kept the independence by doing it with his money. His team developed new technology that helped t make better movies now. Yet, i think there are still relevant things here for a low budget film on these days (like the matte paintings) or other things. CGI improved all but also shows we can do things on small scale.
One of the Best How They Shot it video. The Star Wars Franchise is the Great Example of how to make Dreams come True. From a Galaxy Far Far Away, Thousand Thanks StudioBinder.
Even more impressive than I realized, having grown up on the original trilogy; the number of new techniques they created here that went on to grace many amazing films is just incredible.
I remember when I first saw " Star Wars " , also known as " Star Wars : A New Hope " at the now defunct Port Theater , way back in 1977 , I was completely blown away !!! I had never seen or heard anything like it !!! George Lucas is a genius , to think that him and his crew planned it all out for months , so when they began filming they knew exactly what they were going to do !!!
My God, the amount of work for that blue screen! I always wondered how they used to do Chroma Key before computers. That's insane. Now anyone can mess with transparent background at home with just a few clicks, and if you get the lighting right it will probably look great (might even look better than some recent blockbusters). At the time, the people working on visual effects were true geniuses.
Wow that video was very an absolute beauty! Almost make me tears. The narration to explain all the magic that made Star Wars possible is so good! For all that it brought, Star Wars will exist forever 🌌
Star Wars was a perfect storm of just the right kinds of technologies and people coming together at just the right time. For sound, having Ben Burtt for the sound effects and the legendary John Williams doing the score was a genius move. Ben's innovative sources for sound effects set Star Wars apart from everything that had come before. And John's musical choices for Star Wars could have been very different. In fact, at the beginning John asked George if he wanted a typical "spacey" type music that pretty much every other sci-fi movie had had up to then, or a more serious approach. Luckily George chose the latter and John knocked it out of the park. And of course having John Dykstra and pretty much everyone at ILM at the time added to the power of the movie. For more detail on this, I highly recommend the Disney+ series, "Light and Magic" about ILM, its formation and innovations over the years. You'll see footage you've never seen before, and that's saying a lot!
Actually George Lucas used classical music records as temp-tracks for Star Wars and he wanted it to use it as the soundtrack just like Stanley Kubrick did with 2001: A Space Oddysey, then Steven Spielberg (one of the few that had faith in the project though he wasn't involved, even said that the movie was going to look better with special effects, indeed he was right) recommened George Lucas to work with John Williams who already earned an Oscar for his score in Jaws, you could still hear the musical influences on Williams' score like The Planets by Gustav Holst or The Rite o Spring by Igor Stravisnky.
Apologies if you've already covered some of these, but here are my picks for How They Shot It: Gravity, Moulin Rouge, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
What I specifically like about these 'the making of' series is that they tell this from the perspective of the filmmaker. Add a most excellent narrative and it makes for a very watchable mini movie in itself. At some point I think it would be worth seeing a "The Making Of The Making Of" to show the huge creative effort behind all these explainers - just to celebrate the sheer quality of them.
Dear StudioBinder team. I just want to thank you for all the work you are doing. Your videos are helping me become a better creator, a better filmmaker. The advice you give for free on this channel is priceless. I am fascinated by cinema, and you make that fascination grow deeper and deeper. From all my heart, thank you.
George Lucas is the inspired mastermind and entrepreneur from Modesto to this Galaxy Far Away. And it was long time ago, when I was 9 years old and daddy took me to watch the beginning of this space saga...
Adam Savage (Mythbusters) worked at ILM. "Adam Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer who worked for ILM building ships and miniature sets for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones."
Awesome job! I’ve probably watched at least 100 X the amount of time of the movie in behind-the-scenes documentaries, opinion, pieces, and everything else that goes along with that, and yet I learned from this video! I really appreciate that.
It is interesting to note that the Star Wars animators developed a new software in making this film, called Photoshop 1.0. That's right,-- the birth of Photoshop thanks to George Lucas!
the success of star wars is credited to the geniuses behind the scenes just as much as george lucas. absoutley amazing that all of these people were able to create such a timeless piece of cinema.
It’s awesome to know that the techniques ILM used on Star Wars were also later used in Star Trek. In fact, the one film they weren’t used on, Star Trek 5, the effects looked like garbage compared to the other films.
¿Have you seen the documentary "icons unearthed: star wars"? Becouse they mention the importance of Marcia Lucas in the editing room and how basically she saved the movie
The video "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" is pure disinformation. The video has been debunked by Nerdonymous in the video called "How "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" was saved in the edit". A simple search of the facts confirms that this attempt at anti-George Lucas bashing is fallacious. The first edit of Star Wars "A New Hope" was a disaster because the editor didn't understand what Lucas wanted. Lucas fired him and had him replaced with also putting himself to the work of editing, because even though he was not credited for it, it was himself who supervised the final editing. The IMDb site confirms that Lucas did participate in the final editing.
Great video. Although showcasing it very well, it doesn’t actually mention one of the key elements of the film’s success: the sound track. John Williams is the man!
I grew up in San Francisco & at about 12 yrs old my Mom Moved us to San Rafael in Marin County…it Wasn’t Long til I found out that ILM was Literally about 1 mile away down the street 😮…I remember how I found out…I,was cruising around Late at Night once,& saw a Semi Flatbed with a Space Ship on it…I was Amazed & found out after Asking around that It was in a Movie & the Warehouse down the Street is where Filming was happening,so the Next day I went down the Street & Found ILM,it was a Big Box Building,& I didn’t get to see much ,so Later on as I was growing up,I remember Riding my Dirtbike in a Big Field a short Distance from ILM,Then one day as I was Riding,I Noticed a Big Flame in the Distance,I had to Stop & Wait ,hoping I would See it Again…Sure enough There it Was Again…..so I Rode over there,& to my Surprise,I saw this Forklift with a man up,on the Extended Boom in a Cage with a Tank & a Nozzle,he was Blowing Fire to Emulate a Fire Breathing Thing…Not a Dragon,& there was a Small Section of Parking lot that was Made Up to Look like a Forest !…it was So Cool !…I remember going back Every Day for a Week & it was Still Set Up like that…I Eventually got to see the Inside of ILM but Only a 5 second Glimpse because it was Private,I eventually saw a Few more Short Filmings there,George Moved ILM to the Presidio in San Francisco later on
All of this is why we had to wait 3 years between each of these movies! 🙃 As for the next movie to look at, assuming that it hasn't already been done, would be The Rocketeer.