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- Behind the Scenes
- Hello, everyone! Let me start by asking you a question:
- what’s the first thing you notice about a film? The
- acting? The music? Maybe the amazing sets? Whatever your
- answer is, there’s always a lot more to it than first
- meets the eye. Actually, the film you see on the screen is
- the product of a huge amount of hard work, most of which
- takes place behind the scenes. Today, I’ll give you a
- brief introduction to some aspects of film-making you
- might not be familiar with.
- To begin with, I’d like to draw your attention to an
- important factor of a film— sound effects. These are
- often added after a scene has been shot and might not be
- made in the way you would expect. For example, in Jurassic
- Park, the sounds of different animals, including a baby
- elephant and a tiger, were mixed by a computer to make a
- dinosaur roar. The sound of the doors opening in the Star
- Trek films was made simply by pulling a sheet of paper out
- of an envelope.
- Another aspect I attach great importance to is visual
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- special effects. CGI has been frequently used in
- film-making as a special effects technology. Generally,
- scenes requiring CGI are filmed in front of a green screen
- in the studio. As green doesn’t match any natural hair
- or skin colour, actors can be easily separated from the
- background. This enables CGI effects to be added later.
- The Quidditch scenes in the Harry Potter films were made
- in this way with the actors jumping up and down in front
- of a green screen. However, the aid of computers isn’t
- always preferred. Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of
- the Rings films, took a creative approach—he used clever
- camera angles to make characters seem bigger or smaller
- than they really were.
- Props also contribute to a film’s success. To make a
- film look real, great effort must sometimes be made to
- research, find and build objects. Director James Cameron
- spent six months looking at and revising plans of the
- Titanic in order to build a full-sized model for his 1997
- film. He talked to historians to ensure that the details
- were correct and even went down to the bottom of the
- Atlantic Ocean to see what was left of the ship for
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- himself. It took 500 workers 100 days to build the fine
- model, not to mention the thousands of props inside.
- My lecture today may not be able to do justice to all the
- work people have done behind the scenes. Just as the poor
- passengers on the real Titanic saw the tip of the iceberg,
- what we see on the cinema screen is just the tip of the
- huge iceberg of film- making. Hopefully, next time you go
- to the cinema, you’ll spare a thought for all those
- talented people behind the scenes. They have worked for
- months and even years so that you can have two hours of
- enjoyment!
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