"advance scout" <***@nospam.optonline.net> writes:
: I remember reading an article about the pilot episode of Smallville (I
: think it was the pilot) where the producers said they removed the snow
: digitally from the scene. Well you know what ...mountains are easier
: to remove than snow. Hell any pimply faced teen with photoshop can do
: it. Hmm maybe they need to hire some pimply faced teens to edit.
I can see a difference between trying their best for a pilot so that
they can sell it and then realizing once they're doing the series that
digitally erasing mountains every single week is going to be a major
routine expense that they'd prefer not to incur, so they just live with
the flaws. Vancouver is cheap to shoot in, but it's surrounded by
mountains and ocean, two things Kansas has none of.
Still, in "Lucy," they seem to have thrown up their hands and said,
"Screw it, the mountains are magnificent. Let's call them a feature
rather than a bug and frame them nicely instead of having them show up
on the side of the shot and hoping no one notices the huge-ass mountains
in the background." (There was no excuse for filming "Phoenix" on the
*docks* of Metropolis, except that they wanted to pull the old
comic-book stunt of having the villain fall to his death in a body of
water only to rise again later to plague the hero.)
-Micky