LOCATION VS GREEN SCREEN

I'm basing my context of practice essay on comparisons of filming at a real location an filming in front of a green screen. Looking at advantages and disadvantages, i came across a couple of big time movie stars that share their will against using green screen. Jason Statham expresses his desire to pay anything not to film in front of a green screen. Ewan McGregor questions George Lukas's motives of looking for the moon in an entire green screen set, and Ian Mckeller didn't become an actor to perform for a green screen cut out.

I find it interesting when i sit infront of a film and question whether it is green screen or real location, and half the time i am stomped to find out its not real, and sometimes disappointed. I've just taken my first green screen footage for invasion and found it challenging. Organisation is key and you learn by doing.

JASON STATHAM: THE KING OF ACTION FILMS 

http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/cover-stars/201204/jason-statham-action-movies-interview?printable=true#ixzz1pg2Aqjqr

To Hackford, to others who've worked with Statham, and perhaps most important to Statham himself, that lack of being anything but himself is key to his ascension to action hero. "Statham's genius lies in repetition," is how one article in the British press put it. Whenever possible, Statham does his stunts, fights his fights, drives his cars. Don't get him started on special effects: "Fahkin' hate green screen. Pay significant amounts of money never to do it again. You cannot fake adrenaline."

Statham's defining on-set moment came at the end of what may be his defining film, Crank, playing a lethally poisoned L.A. assassin able to remain alive only by keeping himself in full adrenaline rush. Statham begged to do the final stunt: hurling himself and his enemy out of an airborne helicopter, killing the man, then chatting up his girlfriend on his cell until he hits the ground. Pure deadpan violence, but the shot relied on only a single 2,000-pound cable to support the leapers. The movie's insurers wanted no part of it. He relented, filming the cell-phone banter against a green screen, but made the jumps anyway.

"On the last day," codirector Mark Neveldine says, "when every scene was wrapped, he got to do the drop: 220 feet, pure acceleration until the final 24 feet, when it gradually slowed, and he still landed hard. He, of course, did it 16 times, and with each take he got more confident, and the funnier the scene played out. That's Jason. He has a rep for being uncontrolled crazy, but he doesn't do anything reckless. He goes over every detail with a stunt coordinator—and if he doesn't feel confident in his safety, he just won't do it."

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Hobbit green screen gripes: Why Ian McKellen is right

"Pretending you're with 13 other people when you're on your own, it stretches your technical ability to the absolute limits."
With over 40 years of stage experience, you can forgive McKellen for preferring props and people to the power of post-production, but does he have a point? Can the digital backlot ever be a substitute for soundstage?


Ewan McGregor

Lucas' dire script and questionable skill directing actors was undoubtedly a problem, but so was his obsession with shooting on green screen, piping in the environment afterwards, and even placing stars' different takes side-by-side with digital trickery. McGregor memorably described the process to Jonathan Ross - he was told by Lucas to "look at the moons!", but had no idea where they were.


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