Hey y'all. Back again. Here's my special features post!
Blogger still sucks, but I'm making due. here goes.

Scene composition!

I hope I got some serious action for agreeing to watch this movie in the first place (no worries, I'm sure I did.) But it ended up bein ok BECAUSE, there was an awesome scene composition and editing behind the scenes special feature. They disect a few scenes with good explanations of why and how and what. Real good stuff for teaching what camera angles and framing do to convey meaning. (if the lion king thing ever gets old)





















Sound Design.

Pixar has begun a tradition of awesome special features, and this is no disappointment. The sounds of this entire world had to be created along with the characters and environments. The high tech sound creation is sometimes no more useful than good old fashioned techiques, good thing they take a look at that too.

Definitely wanted to be a sound designer after I saw the special features for LOTR. G'head, call me a geek. I'll kill you, and get it on ADAT.

Makin stuf look good.

They filmed this movie in springtime in mississipi. It looks dust-bowl-ish because of state of the art (at the time) post production. Definitely worth checkin out this stuff.

The invisible man + old school animation. OR, the last hurrah of the old school animator.

Awesome. Watch the special featured and then watch the movie to find out where they goofed stuff, even better.

Story development.

The Incredibles.

Brad Bird is a storyteller first and foremost. I was gonna post a picture but blogger sucks again.

Bird and his cohorts do an awesome job of explaining what motivated characters, and how they tick and why they do what they do and how they do it. Someone say runon sentence. Anyway, it's quite the ordeal. Somethin like an hour of special features footage, plus 2 commentary tracks. Bangin stuff.

Till next time boys and girls, be cool.