EFAP Movies - Minis - The Production Design of The Lord of The Rings I

this is outright a feast in terms of artwork you get everything in this but where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet they didn't use um CG to shrink I mean the fact that they're using scale doubles and a lot of it even though they're doing multiple passes Force perspective persective stuff was mind-blowing when I first saw how they did that I was like w find the biggest chickens they could possibly find to put next to the people I I love how every time you get a closeup of the ring you just know that that Ring's the size of a [ __ ] basketball so cool half the shy has been invited and the rest of them are turning up anyway you know another thing about this movie that people forget is they were pioneering color grading software it was really the way they were able to create power windows and and and ey lights and accentuate that stuff and so life in the sh goes on very much as it has this past age it's very handcrafted but the the color grading in this film is is absolutely beautifully done there's as much going on there as there was with Andrew Les's cinematography like everything else it gives this film a bespoke handcrafted saval row feel for things are made to endure in the sh passing from one generation to the next they try and duplicate it in other movies but they can't part of it I think so important is it was made at the exactly the right time like I don't think this works 20 years earlier or later well look at The Hobbit opening compared to this opening yeah night and day he's up to something all right then keep your secrets I know you have something to do with it good gracious man this is all it it's like you're watching sometimes a watercolor painting yes um you know like really like painting come to life yeah and it really was I mean they they had two fantasy artists they had the two best tolking artists in the world working on this the whole time you know painting imagery John how and and um Alan Lee Alan Lee never had any Adventures or did anything unexpected if you're referring to the incident with the dragon I was barely involved and they um the fact that the fact that everybody was on the same page that they had all of these people in in Creative key positions that were all really serving this singular vision and while Peter definitely was and Philip and Fran were filtering it all without what was going on with weda and WETA workshop and WETA digital I mean they always nothing was ever good enough they were always making it better those days you feel it you've been officially labeled a disturber of the peace you feel it in every frame it also helps that there was like over a year just to prep for the movie before they started shooting anything whereas with The Hobbit they were given no time at all and didn't even have a script for the third movie by the time they started shooting you can tell there's an assload of effort that was done just to setting all this [ __ ] up before they started Sun's first light crept over the top of the trees and turned them all to Stone it it was it was like it was when an actor makes a choice how to play a part they were also making choices from a production standpoint what they would do to accentuate these characters to differentiate them from one another [Music] for I don't know why I took you went after your mother and father died but it wasn't out of Charity you were the one Baggins that showed real spirits JS all the races when they when they talk about Rohan I mean the design of the armor the design of the the colors they used in the Fabrics were different than the Fabrics they would use for the elves or different than what they used in Gondor and you see all of that in the film I mean you're not necessarily aware of it but you feel it was made 20 years earlier or 20 years later it was like made at the perfect time when visual effects were becoming more of a part of movie making and were able to like accentuate and work in places where they couldn't use practical but they I mean look at these sets you know I suppose you think that was terribly clever come on gandal did you see their faces why shouldn't I keep it I think you should leave the ring behind business isn't of yours what I do with my own friend bagin do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks imagine if [ __ ] Disney made this like everything around them would be just green screen and I think that's a problem because like even a scene where where gandal first goes and talks to saon at at uh at Eisen guard they'll show you an establishing shot that has an effect that's combined with liveaction and it'll pan down and you'll see the two of them talking outside but they're they're fairly medium shots medium to close-up shots so there's they don't have to put visual effects in them and it's them talking in real environments then you cut to an effect shot it feels much more seamless but when you're in environments that are completely generated and there's no reality in them you don't get that same feel and this movie does both all the time and so you buy into it I'm trying to help you you'd have them say something like you know with the set dress and it's like oh we can ask the CG guys to put in some extra bits and Bobs in the background it's like no no no no no you've already lost you were supposed to want to do it you were supposed to want to create all this stuff like that's the spirit of like the whole thing when they're coming up with like what's in Bilbo's room you know that passionate people like what would he have in his room what do we know he has in his room and what he need to see to represent this time the other as opposed to like oh problem get it to the CG guys they can probably solve it funny is that I think I forgot most of rings of power but I am I love this I can't I can't get out of my head where y this is definitely where the bad guys live [Music] it would just be fantastic if this is where the goodies are beast it's like oh man we need to get we [Applause] bad hey they just like really angular architecture okay yeah yes it's such a beautiful model though I love it look at this oh the green I don't think a lot of that's to code though and this it's like calm down film I can only [ __ ] so many times in a row I know dude then the nine come out it's like it's funny CU people watching that in the cinema who didn't know the books would have thought they were coming out of badur but it's like a completely different city that they're they're coming out of look at them look at that a real location beautiful oh I love this set so good it's such a great spooky wizard Fortress I [ __ ] love it it really is look at the god Rays you know the voluminous lighting that shot with the NZ the hobbit's so good I love that shot that shows that like there's [ __ ] Nails inside that horse's hoof it doesn't draw a lot of attention to the little the costume design but you can [Music] notice now it's conspicuous you've ruined it forever no he's accentuated it and it's wonderful and beautiful and amazing and when I was a kid I actually thought that those bugs were coming out of the nasol that would be disturbing the watch [Music] that I remember the director Wasing for this and like they're thinking was like this this presence of this thing just drives out life in all its forms like they want to get out of the ground because like the energy of this thing just infected it it's so interesting to think about all of the techniques that you know the purpose is to be invisible but at the same time you know it its presence is apparent right like the magnets underneath the floor when the ring hits the ground to make it feel like a heavy burden's being dropped cuz it's the size of a dinner plate right the the one like in the [Music] snow I wonder if they made a giant hand for that giant ring well what was cool about like the production of this is like almost the entire Trilogy was fully storyboarded before they started filming so they planned out a ton of these shots well before they actually got out of why do that why just spontanous like oh yeah no we haven't finished the script and I have no idea where this story is leading I don't know what everybody else is doing the I imagine storyboarding it out really helped with the CGI in this movie too because I've heard from like especially people who work on the CGI for Marvel movies right now they don't bring the CGI artists on the set to actually look at [ __ ] M and when you don't do that you and you make like shots and then you just assume that the CGI artist can work around that you got like this mess on screen that could just be fixed if you storyboarded it out and had people who knew what they were doing around a lot of these early films because visual effects was still new it was like a part of the process that had to be integrated like it was necessary that it was integrated into a lot of the other a lot of Mak a lot of the attitudes and formats for creation were stuff they did out of necessity and have since become something that they should strive to do cuz it had such great results what do you want whereas now it's just like well yeah I mean we can use the computers to achieve a lot of things like it's just a ubiquitous thing that's available and present but without that like foresight and planning and like all of those attempts while actually filming to make sure that everything is laid out to make the task easier to get better results than you get stuff like [ __ ] Marvel movies where everything looks awful when there's really no reason that it should look that bad I I love the slowed down like nay that horse makes when they realize that the Rings being used yeah it's just really creepy sounding that shot with butur though with the with the nasol in their knives God so good love the way they flow s lord of the Earth want to pante you the medieval telephones yeah look at that eye oh it looks so good though yeah I know I know stunning it would be like oh it's the CG you incorporate correctly there it's like yeah you wouldn't be able to probably do a practical orb that has the eye he does all the swear like build [Music] mey out you fools some of this stuff is actually hard to compliment because you take it for granted sometimes but like the way the the Orcs look are incredible all the ORS they're all the makeup and looks amazing get smacked with it all at once you just sort of just like yeah this is all amazing mole [Music] please here's the worst shot in the whole trilogy what what the [ __ ] were they thinking with this one it's a theory it's not ethereal it's [ __ ] I love this movie but that's a horrifically bad shot even the froto one looks awkward like it looks like you could do it in your own editing thing pretty quick the elron one is hilarious the elron one looks like the beginnings of a horrible fever dream look at these mountains oh here yeah it's gorgeous it is fascinating to think about how much of like New Zealand as a country like globally is defined by this film series like it really is like a huge aspect of how they're like known around the world I mean was this the first movie to really make use of New Zealand as a filming location um like first high profile probably not the first certainly high profile yeah it was yeah super high profile n [Music] companions so it's so good Miss Quest you shall be the Fellowship of the Ring I view it as a like I know it sounds silly but as a Trilogy in that like this to me is like oh yes we've got the thrust now right where are we going and this is where the first disc ends which is interesting considering that you know it's like how far are we oh like nearly two hours but it doesn't feel like it does it I mean people like complain about the pacing of them sometimes but I I think they're [ __ ] perfect no I can't believe that people throw such a fit over how long the ending of Return of the King is and it's like it's really not long at all the the big key to it is look at the endings length compared to the story which is enormous I think it's like 20 minutes on the dot pretty much which is f of 10 11 hour Trilogy this Trilogy is now the the length of your average series on Disney Plus or Amazon and it does so much more with its time oh God yeah uh the ending is perfect in her heart your mother knew you'd be hunted all your life that you'd never Escape your fate well I mean you know like the 20 minutes of of this film is equivalent to the total content of Ahsoka yes and next season too if there is one yeah the skill of the elves can reforge the sword of Kings but only you have the power to wield it there are certain frames in this that have more content than all of us so I mean arguably yeah the shot of them all together is a fellowship I feel like that's already more look at that look at that I just love the way the ring looks you know so plain so mundane so plain exactly a look at this look at this ah there's so much to Just Praise all the time it's so detailed yeah I'm wondering like what this is is this like a like a practical miniature that they move and have a camera go cords and they can like open it up and separate it you know what they awoke in the darkness of Kaz Doom a look at [ __ ] wait to see the bog again dude the bog is so awesome shadow flame I love how they they tease it by showing like a sketch of it that looks [ __ ] great as well I know it's so [ __ ] cool and then it you see it and it's like even cooler like by a massive margin we cannot stay here this will be the death of the hobit yeah they really did it justice cuz tolken describes it so beautifully as well that it's made of fire and Shadow it's just a great monster we will go through the mines so B yeah and it's remembered forever and it's an example of the the era using CG where it's needed where it's a tool how's your shoulder better than it was you wonder if it is like cuz I mean of course there was an immense amount of visual effects here but but even you know it's not like every single shot had it compared to some stuff now where like 100% of the shots have visual effects work must be careful you feel it power growing don't you I felt it too if it's like a a matter of all of the effort is strained it's spread so thin that like it hampers everything maybe that's the reason why Iron Man looks pretty crap towards the end form of my cousin Vol and they call it a mine a mine these Moria Vibes are [ __ ] so good it's so creepy and dark dude the way he describes it before they hit the realization this is no mine it's a tomb this is wrong gim's not paying attention he's just like oh we're going to party here wait a minute he sells it too he's not like a [ __ ] idiot character was just like wa this is weird well that just happened we make for the gap of Rohan and then on top of everything else a big water monsters trying to kill him crazy what a terrible day yeah

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Published: Fri Apr 05 2024