Re: Exterior View of TARDIS Interior

in article 6rdi52p2dkqt90vtv0e9msk2n7m01kjljd@xxxxxxx, Monsieur Tabernac at
mtabernac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 5/3/06 6:07 PM:busted out this wacky shit:

On Wed, 03 May 2006 18:01:03 -0500, Elvis Gump
<elvisgump.NO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's a shot in one of the new DW Confidentials where they show Tennant
standing in the door of the exterior TARDIS prop with a green screen where
you'd see the interior I think it was from where he was emerging during the
Xmas Invasion after waking up from his stupor ("Did you miss me?")

I don't think I've seen evidence of any motion control tracking when they
show them shooting green screen but I might not have been very observant.

If you listen to the commentary from the Xmas Invasion, RTD/Phil
Collinson have a discussion about all this -- their original intention
for the Doctor emerging scene was to have a tracking shot from WITHIN
the TARDIS, panning backwards to show him emerging. Unfortunately,
they didn't have the time/resources to do it at the time, but they
both did say that it was one thing they definitely want to do.

I think they could have faked it by using a dolly down the ramp and out and
then use a still shot of the last bit of the shot where the door was, then
set up the exterior prop with a green screen ramp and backdrop with the
backside off the exterior. As long as you check your height and distance you
could seem the two shots into a matte in post. You measure the distances and
time your dollying and then trim it when you matte the two bits. You shoot
Tennant coming down the green ramp on location with the ext-prop and key the
interior behind him. Easy-peasy.

I know I can shoot that and do it in Adobe Premiere.

Nothing I've see looked like motion control so far. The opening of "Tooth
and Claw" was really kick ass editing and wire removal.

Most of the mattes could be eyeballed after the fact and I would guess for
what's an eye-popping budget next to the DW of our childhoods, they really
never had a large budget for season one or probably the time so far for
season two. What they are doing is pretty amazing for TV and if you think
about it pretty much on par with SGSG1 and BSG.

The time eating monsters, the werewolf and the demon things from "School
Reunion" were probably too ambitious for the time scale they are working
under so my hats off to them even if it's not 100%. Fans now are really
picky!

Hell look at the time, the YEARS that the ILM guys took on the SWs sequels
and can you honestly say their creature animations fooled you any better
than the Mill stuff?

Tennant hasn't had the gravitas of writing so far that Eccleston had with
his season I think. "Dalek" gave him a lot of room to show the Doctor as a
wounded man as did "Father's Day" for Rose to have some inkling of his pain
and that's the sort of stuff that is really interesting, not the FX...

I lost my own dad last year and the latter really gets to me.
--
"Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing."
-- Herodotus

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