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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 25, 2019 14:19:00 GMT
Interesting Sparky. The sound man character in Rosenthal's 'Ready When You Are Mr McGill' is portrayed as a burden holding up filming with his sensitive hearing picking up ambient noise that no one else on the crew can hear.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 25, 2019 14:30:38 GMT
Interesting Sparky. The sound man character in Rosenthal's 'Ready When You Are Mr McGill' is portrayed as a burden holding up filming with his sensitive hearing picking up ambient noise that no one else on the crew can hear. In the 1975 version of the film, the Sound Recordist - tends to be pushed to the back; and his views are not really considered - until he interferes with shooting. The main concern is with the picture!
In the "aircraft" scene - where he holds shooting; there are in real life - people like this, who have a 2nd sense for sounds no one else can hear. That I think is experience!
Quite a bit got removed from that film (I have a copy of the 1975 screen play) - things were removed due to complaints from the (genuine) Sound Recordist - over 'Defamation of Character".
I would like to see the 2003 'update' of this film - though it's very hard to get hold of. Even for poor old Maureen Lipman!
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 25, 2019 18:43:31 GMT
Sparky, did you do the lighting on some of these early films!
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Post by Sparky on Jun 26, 2019 6:28:57 GMT
Sparky, did you do the lighting on some of these early films! I would have loved to have! In fact I'd have love to have worked on some of the early Hammer stuff.
Everything back then had to be invented on the spot - if you needed something to create a particular look; you knocked something up. Nowadays, there's a bit of kit for just about everything.
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 26, 2019 7:15:28 GMT
Sparky, did you do the lighting on some of these early films! I would have loved to have! In fact I'd have love to have worked on some of the early Hammer stuff.
Everything back then had to be invented on the spot - if you needed something to create a particular look; you knocked something up. Nowadays, there's a bit of kit for just about everything.
Yes, I know the feeling, its nice to be inventive/creative with what you've got around you. I always liked the 1960s Dr Who for that reason as that is what the character did in a tight spot.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 26, 2019 10:14:13 GMT
Earlier on in this thread, we mentioned George Melies. He was a pioneer in film making, special effects and fiddling about with cameras and negatives.
He was first to understand the relationship between Film and Light - the fact you needed a hell of a lot of it to expose the film - before you even got to creating a style. His 'studios' were like huge green houses, built with glass roofs, so they could get as much daylight in as possible.
This - of course being the days before electric lighting was in use.
The film "Hugo" is about this, and the making of "Trip to the Moon". Many methods he used in 18hundred and something, they still use today - such as 'Forced Perspective'.
The invention of sound changed things totally.
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