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The problem with CGI is that directors like to fill the screen.
Look at Ace's High and watch the way the aircraft behave
Look at some of the CGI sequences in Flyboys where having created a digital model of an aircraft the director clones a number of identical copies flying unrealistically close together.
As pilots we know how hard it is to keep formation. Directors don't and tend to overload things to give a dramatic effect.
Look at Ace's High and watch the way the aircraft behave
Look at some of the CGI sequences in Flyboys where having created a digital model of an aircraft the director clones a number of identical copies flying unrealistically close together.
As pilots we know how hard it is to keep formation. Directors don't and tend to overload things to give a dramatic effect.
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Hello everyone,
Been a while since I've updated, so just a note to say the project is still in motion. Had the pleasure of coming to England over the winter for a number of meetings with my director, Tuck's sons Michael and Simon, PPRUNE member Nick Stein, Carolyn Grace and a few others. A wonderful time indeed.
We hope to do a press release some time next month to announce the film as being "in development". Work is underway on a teaser trailer, and within the next few months we should have a website up and running. Still a long way from guaranteed funding and production, but at least things appear to be moving in the right direction. Keep those fingers crossed.
Cheers!
Greg
Been a while since I've updated, so just a note to say the project is still in motion. Had the pleasure of coming to England over the winter for a number of meetings with my director, Tuck's sons Michael and Simon, PPRUNE member Nick Stein, Carolyn Grace and a few others. A wonderful time indeed.
We hope to do a press release some time next month to announce the film as being "in development". Work is underway on a teaser trailer, and within the next few months we should have a website up and running. Still a long way from guaranteed funding and production, but at least things appear to be moving in the right direction. Keep those fingers crossed.
Cheers!
Greg
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Glad to see the project is still rolling, keep us posted and good luck!
Cheers
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RST.
It'd be very jolly to see a well-made and accurate portrayal of RST. He was the archetypal RAF fighter pilot, and the very epitome of understated professionalism.
Realistically however, I'm struggling to think of many decent aviation films, let alone factual ones, that were worth watching for any but the flying sequences.... It's a difficult undertaking. There is also a tendency for those holding the purse-strings to play fast and loose with the facts to make the end result entertaining to a Disney age group of eight to eighty years old. Hollywood takes history and shreds it. U571 would be a good example. There is dumbing-down, and there is utter distortion.
I hope that you manage to attract sufficient funds to do RST's story justice - I really do. Just promise us that if you can't attract enough funding, you don't make it. We don't end-up with straight to video 'Movies for Men' special.
I think the last decent aviation film I saw was Dark Blue World, which I think was actually fiction but set in a quite accurate context. Very un-Hollywood and quite watchable. The CGI content was (Just.) passable.
Lastly, a pet hate of mine;- Speech is always a reflection of the times. People really did generally speak the Queens English at that time. No glottlestops and AQT and the general slaughter of English perpetrated on T.V & radio seventy or so years later.
Good Luck!
Realistically however, I'm struggling to think of many decent aviation films, let alone factual ones, that were worth watching for any but the flying sequences.... It's a difficult undertaking. There is also a tendency for those holding the purse-strings to play fast and loose with the facts to make the end result entertaining to a Disney age group of eight to eighty years old. Hollywood takes history and shreds it. U571 would be a good example. There is dumbing-down, and there is utter distortion.
I hope that you manage to attract sufficient funds to do RST's story justice - I really do. Just promise us that if you can't attract enough funding, you don't make it. We don't end-up with straight to video 'Movies for Men' special.
I think the last decent aviation film I saw was Dark Blue World, which I think was actually fiction but set in a quite accurate context. Very un-Hollywood and quite watchable. The CGI content was (Just.) passable.
Lastly, a pet hate of mine;- Speech is always a reflection of the times. People really did generally speak the Queens English at that time. No glottlestops and AQT and the general slaughter of English perpetrated on T.V & radio seventy or so years later.
Good Luck!
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ended up with severe damage to this very unique aircraft.
Yours truly hosting the Aussie engineering officer (and his wife) who helped to capture the thing with Bobby Gibbes.
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Thought you guys might like to see this. His CG people might be a bit off, but the CG aircraft scenes are remarkable. Staggering to think he does this stuff alone. There are three parts, here's the first:
