The Great Gatsby Trailer

[Scott Surman]

Cant wait to watch it on the REDray 3D laser projector! The images off of the projector looked amazing!

[Andrae Palmer]

Paris, there's some makeups that just don't work that well. I've tested to find some, and when I did I threw every digital camera I had at them as well as the REDs, and it's a makeup issue. It's exacerbated by makeup being applied while not under the "to be shot" lighting, and also by neutral white balance (leaving the balance warm hides a lot of things). You can actually see the makeup issue with your own eyes when you change the lighting too. The Hobbit issue was something rather different - the colour change through the mirror of the 3D rig.

Graeme

Thanks for that explanation about The Hobbit... I didn't understand why PJ had to saturate the colors.

[Al Lougher]

I wish they'd start releasing trailers of 3D films in 3D for download. Surely it can't be that difficult to output a SBS version that can be downloaded, can it?

[Michael Moreno]

Um, we do immensely respect the work put in.

I love Baz Luhrmann films. In the specific field of cinematic color... films like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge were hugely inspiring and influential.

I also think that Brook is a total RED genius. I couldn't imagine that anyone could get more out of the camera than him and his team.

This looks like beautiful work and I can't wait to see it (yes - in 3D). At the same time, though... if we see issues in the footage that look like issues we've had ourselves with the same equipment (and suspected they were equipment-related, but weren't sure because we doubted our own skill)... it reconfirms that there are areas that I would personally like RED to focus on if even the best guys in the world seem to be having the same issues.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

Sorry Bruce
My comment was posted at the same time as yours
Not directed toward you or anyone in particular

I am always tremendously grateful for your input on the forum
Sincerely and Respectfully ; )

P.s. your pm box is full

[Rob Ruffo]

YUMMY!!!!!!!!

[Jarred Land]

Just a side note.. The movie poster going around right now and the one here was created by a fan from who knows what.... it is not the official movie poster, which has not been released yet. Just keep that in mind as you guys pick it apart.

[Nicholas Teixeira]

It looks nice ! It has a very three dimensional feeling even in the 2D trailer, I mean more than lots of 3D movies.

I agree !!!

[Brad Allen]

Paris, there's some makeups that just don't work that well. I've tested to find some, and when I did I threw every digital camera I had at them as well as the REDs, and it's a makeup issue. It's exacerbated by makeup being applied while not under the "to be shot" lighting, and also by neutral white balance (leaving the balance warm hides a lot of things). You can actually see the makeup issue with your own eyes when you change the lighting too. The Hobbit issue was something rather different - the colour change through the mirror of the 3D rig.

Graeme

Hi Graeme - Has it been limited to one specific ingredient that would be causing this? It would be extremely useful I think if we could build a list of non-safe make-up (or perhaps a safe list would be better) that we could give to make-up artists prior to shoots. Is there any chance you could comment on what brands or products were problematic? Or perhaps it would be less political if you could comment on with which products skin tone problems couldn't be reproduced?

[Enrique Blein]

[QUOTE=Sergio Perez;1012751]Baz Luhrman often re-images his "worlds". He's an expressionistic director, and the "world" his characters live in are more of an expression of his vision of the era- a "romantic" memory and portrait (that's how I see it). One should not expect realism and era accuracy in his films, but if the story, the characters, the music all work together to create a unique "world" and "experience" which is a Baz Luhrmann film. That's why his films are so polarizing, in a way: either you accept this creative liberty and approach from Luhrmann or you will probably walk out in disgust by the lack of the historical (time) accuracy and representation of the real world in his films. A good comparison to what Baz does with history or with "historical landscape" is what Tarantino did with Inglorious Basterds! Tarantino "changed" history in his film, because he assumed it as his "world", and in his "world", in his film, in his "story", that was the way things happened. Same goes to Luhrmann, but not in such a provocative sense!

obviously we all have different tastes, and certainly Tarantino has a better taste for music than Baz

[Josh Beadle]

Move over Hugo! Xtreme Eye Candy coming through!!

Not what I was expecting - my kid just read the book and I just got done splaining the lush production of the 1970's with those amazing Theoni Aldredge costumes . . .