From: Jorge Amaro (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jun 18 2009 - 09:24:08 PDT
Myron,
There is a great book about the film, also in english, released in
Barcelona, it comes with a DVD of the film, the DVD is not a
particularly good edition. But okay to have a look.
http://www.loring-art.com/html/busqueda/detalle.php?fr_codLibro=12404
Its quite cheap. But I have no idea if it is still in print.
2009/6/18 Freya <email suppressed>:
>> Another way of asking this: If you were going to
>> attempt to make a hand-painted 35mm film to be shown in
>> cinemascope, how would you go about it?
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> Thats tricky! My immediate thought might be to build some anamorphic goggles and to be sure not to stray into the soundtrack area. :)
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> More realistically you could pick up a cheap 2x anamorphic projector lens and try and see what you are doing through that while masking off the soundtrack area. Like those ancient paintings with hidden features! :)
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> 1.85 would be the easiest as you would just have to mask off a certain area of your original and paint within that area.
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> Lastly if you restrict yourself to art house cinemas that screen older films you could possibly work in academy. Again you would need to work in a smaller area away from the soundtrack and a little bit off the top and bottom. You could look into this as a possibility for the footage you already worked on too, to what extent will losing the soundtrack area and a bit top and bottom of frame affect your film? You could make a cardboard mask and see if this slight cropping would be an issue. You'd need to check with the cinema if they can screen academy of course, but a lot of places that screen old classic films probably still can I'm guessing. Yes you would be more limited in cinemas but is it really that restricting for a weird hand painted film anyway? ;)
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> Optically printed pillarboxed prints are usually made to fit into 185 and not scope.
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