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Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by kevinsync »

replete wrote: post #146

The sets are beautiful, but in this season some of the lens choices have resulted in so much CA/distortion outside the focus that you miss out on seeing them properly - to point of frustration. Possibly not noticeable at HD, but glaring in 4K.

Just conjecture, but this might also be what Apple does with a lot of their TV+ series that are filmed for Immersive / Spatial Video (shot stereoscopically and end up in MV-HEVC format). On a regular screen it ends up looking like a super weird bokeh towards the edges of the image.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by manmal »

meowface wrote: post #3

The cinematography, editing, writing, and overall feel of this show far exceed any Star Wars movie I've seen. I had long since written off the Star Wars franchise as a shameless cash grab since the original movies but they proved they could do something cool with it. I'd definitely watch a new movie if it were handled by the same team that made Andor. Prequel, sequel, side story, or re-telling of the originals.

The prison episode is a masterpiece and would have been an amazing movie on its own. It‘s weird how zany the other SW shows and even movies look now in comparison. I‘m really sad there can’t be another season.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by nwlotz »

"Made with love" is a concept that's subjective but real. You can tell Andor was made with love, while the sequel trilogy looks like it was made with a set of release criteria designed by consultants.

Not to mention I don't even put Andor in the category of a typical Star Wars story. It's just great geopolitical writing. The boardroom scenes were some of my favorites of any show I've ever watched.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by manmal »

boppo1 wrote: post #62
mcv wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Andor is by far the best Star Wars. Rogue One is very good, and the only movie that's in the same league as the originals, but Andor is so much better. I don't think we'll see anything on the same level as Andor again; they already cut the original plans from 5 seasons to 2; it's simply too expensive and costs too much time to do it this well. But I do hope that future Star Wars shows will try to follow at least some…

>5 seasons Thank god. There's not enough meat on the bone, the writing would never have been good enough to support this. We need more excellent, tightly spun stories.

Really? I was a bit annoyed about the multiple „1 year later“ jumps. There‘s plenty that happened in that time that we haven’t seen.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by greatgib »

jccalhoun wrote: post #128
kriro wrote: post #47

I think Andor is a bit over hyped in this threat. I absolutely love it (especially the Imperial side of things) but saying it is better than the original movies is a bit too much. If you take into account the time and technical possibilities it's not even close. And the original movies have more memorable things overall. I mean the two villains alone are all time greats. The music is also better (imo). But most impor…

I don't get what people love about Andor. The prison break episode was good but the flashbacks to the kids in the jungle were horrible and the funeral with instruments straight out of Fat Albert's junkyard band were laughable.

There were some good sequence and episodes, but mostly I agree with you. I found it slow and boring. The bottom plot is nice but but there a some episodes where almost nothing happens.

I'm quite sure that they were empty on ideas in terms of scenario, so they tried to spread the longest possible what would have fitted in a single movie of 2 hours.

I think that also explains why they didn't manage to do more than 2 seasons when their original goal was 5.

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Post by yread »

xorcist wrote: post #132

What I don't understand is how film crews can work together when they are larger than two pizza teams? And when they want to change something, it's almost like they just do it? Surely they have to file a ticket with the Product Owner first? And why don't they wait until the current sprint is done before doing things that clearly belongs to the next one? Why do the producer run around speaking in precise terms when he…

These processes were designed so that software can be made by dumb interchangeable cogwheels that change jobs once per year.

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Post by manmal »

iainmerrick wrote: post #65

To address this interview specifically, rather than just gushing about how great Andor is-- One point Nuyens makes in a few different ways is that they used a variety of tools and techniques at every stage. People often have simplistic, extreme viewpoints like "modern CGI can do anything" or "CGI looks fake and weightless, practical effects are better". But here's somebody with a big part in making a fantastic-lookin…

I have zero knowledge about lenses and optics in general, but found it interesting that the outer edges of the frame are often blurred in a peculiar way. Was that a stylistic choice?

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by ragazzina »

atq2119 wrote: post #188
peeters wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you are at all open to sci-fi That is to say, a sci-fi setting . Andor would not be correctly put in the sci-fi genre, rather in the political thriller genre.

That's the thing about sci-fi: almost all good sci-fi stories are really sci-fi + X, where X is some other genre. Often adventure or mystery, sometimes horror, and in this case political thriller / spy story.

Isn't that true for every genre?

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by manmal »

captainbland wrote: post #44

The main thing that impressed me about Andor is how they managed to make the Stormtroopers seem like a genuinely intimidating force rather than just a rabble of goons in costumes. It goes to show how much they elevated the believability of Star Wars in Andor.

The security droids were also quite something. I found them super scary, with their eyes that seemed to understand, in a calculating way. And with a posture like giant primates, and the ability to easily tear people apart. Definitely not the watered down versions of „battle droids“ we‘ve seen so far, who were easily tricked and fell apart when you kicked them.
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