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I feel like shooting a movie in space would make for very good marketing but rather boring footage. Very cramped quarters, very drastic security measures would
by simias 6y ago
I feel like shooting a movie in space would make for very good marketing but rather boring footage. Very cramped quarters, very drastic security measures would probably make for rather unimpressive footage compared to what's usually achieved through CGI. Space is big, space is slow, space is quiet. It will be quite an interesting challenge to make it look visually interesting in an action movie I think.
Although I suppose that watching the movie knowing that it was actually shot in space will be novelty enough to keep the audience captivated, but that'll only work for the first few movies going through the hassle of doing it, then the novelty will wear off and I expect that at that point people will be back to using much cheaper, simple and flexible CGI.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- 52-6F-62 6y agoAll scientific realism and other criticisms aside—I thought Gravity did a pretty good job with essentially what you described as the setting of the film. Mostly spent focusing on pretty cramped quarters in a capsule. They figured out some ways to introduce drama. I think what might be the most stunning would be some of the exterior footage. I wonder whether that would introduce some sort of barrier-breaking in the mind when watching a film taking place above the earth knowing that the earth in the film is real footage in "real time" and not stock or CGI.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoSuspension of disbelief failed when main character reached station with wildly different orientations with almost no delta-v in a stupidly short amount of time.
- Ductapemaster 6y agoThat's a fair point, but I think zero gravity + green screens will be a really unique opportunity that is hard to replicate anywhere else but space. You can do things you can't in a studio.