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S-008: Post tutorial (unrelated: Dune vfx)

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“‘Writing is easy. All you’ve got to do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.’ Hemingway.”

Via Masterclass ad on YouTube 🙃 for dramatic writing with David Mamet

It’s an ad for Mubi. But it’s a very good ad:

An analysis of the VFX in Dune which highlights decisions to retain authenticity through using:

  • cinematography anchored in physical/mechanical camera work as opposed to digital camerawork which has no limits.
  • Natural lighting (sunlight) where possible
  • Sand coloured ‘blue/green’ screens for keying/composition to allow sand coloured light spill.
  • Physical sets instead of digital sets where possible
  • Shooting through glass to retain natural flares, reflections, refractions and dirt as opposed to assign glass through cgi in post
  • Using cgi to expand on in camera captures of natural phenomena such as sand storms and sand vibrations. 

Further watching of Dune youtube videos:

Reveals uncanny coincidental reference to the Letchworth roundabout for a fraction of a second…!?

Not sure where that frame is actually from (the video was referring to ‘a classic film thing where you don’t want to show people departing or arriving’) but provides a good starting point for further investigation.

Update, seems it was in ‘The World’s End’. Makes sense.