(urth) Fw: scenes from movie "Death of Doctor Island"

[Son Of Witz]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 4/29/2011 2:56 PM, Son Of Witz wrote:
>> For Gerry's take to work, it would have had to been imagined like that from the beginning.
>> With footage shot like "yeah, we'll comp that background in later" or, "react to this non-existent thing on set" there is only so much you can do without a post production budget.
>> 
>> Actually, I've long wondered how many movies will flounder at this stage the more they make movies on greenscreen sets.  I've always figured people would start getting in waaaaaaay over their heads in regards to what they will actually be able to afford in post production.
> 
> More will, if only because the production part is getting cheaper, but plenty of films already fail in post, or never make it to post due to processing costs. One of the film channels shows a visit to the processing lab, where they have a ginormous warehouse with shelves crammed full of cans of developed film from movie projects that went bankrupt and were never redeemed.


Ha. I figured it HAD to be like that.  ouch.