the cathay at dhoby ghaut. first time ive been there, and second time to plaza singapora :o thats like epic no life. all my life ive just spammed tampines mall, eastpoint and white sands and occasionally downtown east, but super popular places like raffles, bugis junction, plaa singapura, nex, atrium and all that ive only been to once or twice. other than clementi mall, which has been changing from good to awesome.
anyway, reached there on time. like 10:20. saw ms koo and mr xie, so i assume there were video and art ppl going too. anyway, mr syed came later, but im not sure if anyone else from photo was there. there were 3 ppl he gave ticket too, but i dont really recognise them as photo...
first time been to cathay. is it like more expensive there or something? $14 sia. but free for us. anyway, it was quite comfortable, and before the movie there was this cool guys from ILM who did the presentation. industrial light and magic. they made about 24 minutes in the transformers movie, even though it was a branch from the one in america. thats really good. i like the photos they took of the production team too. their workspace are like full of toys and figurines, drawings, and old movie posters, then some huge laptop and some cool animation on the screen. also got some modellers and ppl who do the fighting and talking, which they use as reference to the robots expressions and how they fight. like the part where they put some old guy next to sentinel prime and both of them talking at the same time. the fighting scene was cool too, like i dint really realise the details until i saw them repeat the part and explain how they fight and all that.
somehow they look very professional, even though it was like candid shots of random people, as the guy said himself. probably cos of the headphones. anyway, it really looks like a fun job, plus they need people to use mathematics and physics to create the special effects, like the glass breaking and momentum and the building collapsing and i like photography, so i shud note this career down for future reference.
they also talked about production and i learnt abit about how they produce the movie. at first, the artists just keep drawing photos of different photos until the director somehow get how the robots move, talk, take out their guns in a cool way and that thing. then they have to draw a "fake" looking kind of video, so that the director knows exactly how to move the camera and stuff. really cool. like the actual filming, theres nothing there apart from the building, and all those broken cars, stuff pass through them. they kind of seperate a scene into its many components, so it was quite interesting.
so basically they took a scene, and broke it down to background, when theres nothing there except the real buildings. then got some transition and u can see drawing lines of damage to buildings and broken cars. then after that, they drew collisions and those stuff, like the sword no longer passes through the building, but rips it apart. then got the falling debris that shows 2D on the screen, and debris that fly out of the screen, followed by dust and shake effects. quite cool, but cannot take photos, so i cant really describe.
anyway, ur supposed to have watched the movie in 2D before watching those effects, so u know what the guys are talking about happening yet u get to see something new, cos its 3D, and u appreciate the effects they made. i dont even realise its there most of the time. then i also kind of realise what they 3D. usually they 3D the effect layers. the most back layer, usually the sky, is the real background, then the buildings are handdrawn and kind of made solid to stand out from the sky, then the debris and dust layers are the one then fly out of the screen.
finally, the show played, after a hell load of advertisements, especially the police force ones, but those are nice. the harry potter trailer really like very epic, and make the movie seem like movie of the century or something. got the die die must watch kind of feeling. anyway, i realised im super scared of 3D, like anything come sharp come out, ill flinch. still cant get over the yogi bear where the maggot flew out. ewwww. anyway, ill still watch hp7 in 3D ^^. scary but thrilling. and anyway after awhile, i stop getting scared of the effects. is it cause they use less at the back, or i get used to it or something? i dunno...
anyway, dint feel like a waste of time, even though i watched it before. i like the effects more now, and not as sleepy and cold as that day. could hear mr xie and mr syed laughing, and ms koo smiling XD. they got a life too. mr xie is world famous XD. must go read his blog today.
the part about him getting the job seems funnier now. the guy was like saying close to zero job experience. yet got some recommendation from someone. then he said WTF to that LOL. thats like insensitive to children watching. then again, the first part looks wrong, but nothing actually happened. and there was that small robot guy who said dickhead. that one was DAMN funny. mr syed was chuckling apparently.
anyway, i understood a bit more about the scheme megatron thought up. at first i tot he is a retard or something, but then i realise what they were saying about "get rid of the nuisance" and why they killed those scientists, especially the one who ran away after seeing that vulture robot. and how that robot killed "deep/jerri wang" and pretend to chase sam so that he'll run to the base and tell them about the dark side of the moon. then they would revive sentinel and get themselves screwed. thats actually a very smart plan.
so overall i dint waste my time there. really quite a good show, after i understood more about it. anyway, thats it for today. bye ^^
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