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I understand the need but it bother me so much to recognise a studio when watching a tv show (or cheap movie). It's like the Wilhelm scream, it immediately remi

by h1fra 3y ago

I understand the need but it bother me so much to recognise a studio when watching a tv show (or cheap movie). It's like the Wilhelm scream, it immediately reminds me I'm watching a something. Especially the paramount studio https://www.paramountstudios.com/new-york-backlot.html https://www.paramountstudios.com/new-york-backlot.html

bonestamp2 3y ago
Yep, that paramount backlot is is is so many commercials... like every cell phone commercial that has a street scene.
civilitty 3y ago
Parks and Recreation drove me crazy because they used b-roll of the Pasadena City Hall exterior as a stand in for Pawnee City Hall, simply because it’s what everyone in the LA area pictures when they think “impressive city hall”
- eddieroger 3y ago
  City Hall was not accurate, but several other exteriors actually are in Indiana in the Indianapolis area, and as a Hoosier, I let the City Hall thing go for it. The building that housed the accounting agency that Ben repeatedly almost worked at is 9333 North Meridian, and the office building where Dennis Feinstein had his office is on Carmel Drive. https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Filming_Locations https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Filming_Locations
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago
  The exterior of JJ's Diner is of a shopping center in Atlanta. Easily recognizable to locals because of the presence of Galaxy Trading Company (part of Starship Enterprises), which was a headshop.
dmix 3y ago
Reminds me of when Stanely Kubrick had an assistant take hundreds of pictures of doors in London to find the perfect shot of a hooker in a doorway: https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vhlcha/a_question_about_doors/id7zgy4/ https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vhlcha/a_qu... Although Eyes Wide Shut was still filmed mostly on a studio set in London where they recreated Greenwich Village, his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings.
- Someone 3y ago
  > his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings. Kubrick took quite an interest in perfecting all aspects of his films. https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinness-world-record/ https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinn...: “Stanley Kubrick movies are notorious for having multiple takes. One instance is in Eyes Wide Shut, when Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Hartford walks through a door. He just walks through a door. That's it. 95 times Cruise walked through the same door. It is not surprising, then, to know that the Guinness World Record for "Most Retakes for One Scene With Dialogue" belongs to Kubrick's The Shining with a whopping 148 takes.” One of the actors in that scene was a kid. Another example is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography): “After "tinker[ing] with different combinations of lenses and film stock," the production obtained three super-fast 50mm lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7) developed by Zeiss for use by NASA in the Apollo Moon landings, which Kubrick had discovered. These super-fast lenses "with their huge aperture (the film actually features the lowest f-stop in film history) and fixed focal length" were problematic to mount, and were extensively modified into three versions by Cinema Products Corp. for Kubrick to gain a wider angle of view, with input from optics expert Richard Vetter of Todd-AO. The rear element of the lens had to be 2.5 mm away from the film plane, requiring special modification to the rotating camera shutter. This allowed Kubrick and Alcott to shoot scenes lit in candlelight to an average lighting volume of only three candela, "recreating the huddle and glow of a pre-electrical age."”
  - drexlspivey 3y ago
    The scenes shot with these Zeiss lenses look gorgeous. The whole scene is lit up by the candles only, he needed super fast lenses to capture enough light. The whole movie actually is only shot with natural light. https://youtu.be/KT7IYpjcpD4?si=bmDsRtDhclICdHTU https://youtu.be/KT7IYpjcpD4?si=bmDsRtDhclICdHTU
    - JohnClark1337 3y ago
      Done way better than a lot of modern "natural lighting" movies and shows, where the picture is so dark that you can't tell what's going on.
tootie 3y ago
I just did a studio tour in Hollywood and the tour guide mentioned that a lot of their most famous productions were done elsewhere because high brow directors hate the backlot. I gather most of the usage nowadays is for TV. Big budget films are either on location or just done on completely fabricated soundstages and/or CGI.
kristopolous 3y ago
I live in LA and usually don't watch video content but when I do it's a fun game. Movie geography is wacky; you'll have the actors on a street in say, Long Beach and then they turn a corner and it's in Glendale, then enter a building and they're in Santa Monica and look out a window to see New York. I really love seeing the details on the larger sets. At one of them they had these vintage cars on sunset blvd that would roll by as background for a period piece. Everything down to the wardrobe of the actors driving the car, the license plate tags, even the book the actor had on their dashboard was from the 1970s. None of this would show up on screen - there's not enough pixels to capture it. The effort they go through is really quite something. They had traffic cops hold back the regular cars and then you'd hear "action" and see the 1970s cars start driving by in the background as the actor came out of the cafe or whatever they were doing ... it was a huge ceremony behind a fairly irrelevant scene. Also action scenes in car chases are crazy to watch. They have these skilled stunt drivers that just do the choreographed crazy fishtail and skidding maneuvers over and over again. They're really good.

by h1fra 3y ago

bonestamp2 3y ago

Yep, that paramount backlot is is is so many commercials... like every cell phone commercial that has a street scene.

civilitty 3y ago

Parks and Recreation drove me crazy because they used b-roll of the Pasadena City Hall exterior as a stand in for Pawnee City Hall, simply because it’s what everyone in the LA area pictures when they think “impressive city hall”

eddieroger 3y ago
City Hall was not accurate, but several other exteriors actually are in Indiana in the Indianapolis area, and as a Hoosier, I let the City Hall thing go for it. The building that housed the accounting agency that Ben repeatedly almost worked at is 9333 North Meridian, and the office building where Dennis Feinstein had his office is on Carmel Drive. https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Filming_Locations https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Filming_Locations
Mountain_Skies 3y ago
The exterior of JJ's Diner is of a shopping center in Atlanta. Easily recognizable to locals because of the presence of Galaxy Trading Company (part of Starship Enterprises), which was a headshop.

dmix 3y ago

Reminds me of when Stanely Kubrick had an assistant take hundreds of pictures of doors in London to find the perfect shot of a hooker in a doorway: https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vhlcha/a_question_about_doors/id7zgy4/ https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vhlcha/a_qu... Although Eyes Wide Shut was still filmed mostly on a studio set in London where they recreated Greenwich Village, his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings.

Someone 3y ago
> his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings. Kubrick took quite an interest in perfecting all aspects of his films. https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinness-world-record/ https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinn...: “Stanley Kubrick movies are notorious for having multiple takes. One instance is in Eyes Wide Shut, when Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Hartford walks through a door. He just walks through a door. That's it. 95 times Cruise walked through the same door. It is not surprising, then, to know that the Guinness World Record for "Most Retakes for One Scene With Dialogue" belongs to Kubrick's The Shining with a whopping 148 takes.” One of the actors in that scene was a kid. Another example is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography): “After "tinker[ing] with different combinations of lenses and film stock," the production obtained three super-fast 50mm lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7) developed by Zeiss for use by NASA in the Apollo Moon landings, which Kubrick had discovered. These super-fast lenses "with their huge aperture (the film actually features the lowest f-stop in film history) and fixed focal length" were problematic to mount, and were extensively modified into three versions by Cinema Products Corp. for Kubrick to gain a wider angle of view, with input from optics expert Richard Vetter of Todd-AO. The rear element of the lens had to be 2.5 mm away from the film plane, requiring special modification to the rotating camera shutter. This allowed Kubrick and Alcott to shoot scenes lit in candlelight to an average lighting volume of only three candela, "recreating the huddle and glow of a pre-electrical age."”
- drexlspivey 3y ago
  The scenes shot with these Zeiss lenses look gorgeous. The whole scene is lit up by the candles only, he needed super fast lenses to capture enough light. The whole movie actually is only shot with natural light. https://youtu.be/KT7IYpjcpD4?si=bmDsRtDhclICdHTU https://youtu.be/KT7IYpjcpD4?si=bmDsRtDhclICdHTU
  - JohnClark1337 3y ago
    Done way better than a lot of modern "natural lighting" movies and shows, where the picture is so dark that you can't tell what's going on.

tootie 3y ago

I just did a studio tour in Hollywood and the tour guide mentioned that a lot of their most famous productions were done elsewhere because high brow directors hate the backlot. I gather most of the usage nowadays is for TV. Big budget films are either on location or just done on completely fabricated soundstages and/or CGI.

kristopolous 3y ago

I live in LA and usually don't watch video content but when I do it's a fun game. Movie geography is wacky; you'll have the actors on a street in say, Long Beach and then they turn a corner and it's in Glendale, then enter a building and they're in Santa Monica and look out a window to see New York. I really love seeing the details on the larger sets. At one of them they had these vintage cars on sunset blvd that would roll by as background for a period piece. Everything down to the wardrobe of the actors driving the car, the license plate tags, even the book the actor had on their dashboard was from the 1970s. None of this would show up on screen - there's not enough pixels to capture it. The effort they go through is really quite something. They had traffic cops hold back the regular cars and then you'd hear "action" and see the 1970s cars start driving by in the background as the actor came out of the cafe or whatever they were doing ... it was a huge ceremony behind a fairly irrelevant scene. Also action scenes in car chases are crazy to watch. They have these skilled stunt drivers that just do the choreographed crazy fishtail and skidding maneuvers over and over again. They're really good.