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First of all Spider-man doesn't have Organic webs in its starting stage in comics. He got Organic web later in the Comics series.
In the Sam Raimi's trilogy of Spider-man he does not follow the real Spider-man comics story as it is and skipped the Artificial Web-shooters thing and even skipped the main characters like Gwen Stacy. So, you can say its ...
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In 3D films, the 3D glasses are the reason for the dimness.Because the 3-D glasses are
darkly coated with polarized filter that decode the images and give them depth dim.
I've found a good link and let me summarize the stuff from that site.
According to the so-called father of 3-D cinema, Lenny Lipton,
because it projects two separate pictures, viewers ...
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MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
Imagine it's a week before the opening scene. Bane is scheming on how to destroy Gotham, learns of Wayne's fusion reactor/neutron bomb via Miranda/Talia, and decides it will be his main device to hold Gotham in fear while he lets them destroy themselves from the inside.
Sinister, indeed.
Bane also comes to learn Dr. Pavel is the only ...
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Because hearing laughter when watching comic shows makes people inclined to regard them as funnier than they would normally. Really. Even when they are intelligent. Even when they know it's fake, canned laughter. I know this is hard to believe, but behavioural psychologists have run the tests, and the results are unambiguous: laugh tracks work, no matter how ...
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There are 52 weeks in a year.
American TV series usually go from the end of September to May, about 34-35 weeks.
Before the late 1960s, a television season was closer to about 30 episodes in the United States.[Wikipedia] [Version]
Most shows go on hiatus over the winter holidays and thanksgiving, due to lower viewership. Events such as the president of ...
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It was added in post. It is well documented that many audience members found his speech inaudible during the opening scene which was shown with M:I 4 - so Nolan went back in and reconfigured the audio.
See The Hollywood Reporter article (one of many)
Naturally Hardy would have said his lines during filming so that everyone else could react to them, but it ...
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Nowadays horses are trained to fall safely. almost all animal performances are under the close supervision of the Film and TV unit of the American Humane Association. Stunt horses can be trained to fall on command safely. Some techniques used to ensure the horses safety :
Each horse has its hoof in sponge rubber to soften kicks and mouths are taped to ...
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In some ways, asking "what's the reason for this" might be a non-starter of a question, because the ultimate reason for why any movie is made is that a producer thinks it's a good idea. And certainly, the fact that Facebook was made open to everyone late in 2006 makes it seem like the time frame is pretty compressed to get the movie out, but it's important ...
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The Dark Flaw in 3D's Bright Future:
The figure of 16 foot-lamberts is the standard established by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for a projector with no film in it.
If you add a 2D film to a projector that meets the brightness standard, you’ll generally wind up with about 14 foot-lamberts, considered an appropriate level of ...
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From What's the Difference?: How to Tell Things Apart that Are Confusingly Close
A “story by” credit is given to the person or team who came up with the essence of a film (such as the plot or main characters) and who may have written a treatment, but who didn’t write the screenplay.
Similarly, a “screen story by” credit goes to a person or team who ...
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Stage Money
To create the illusion of massive wads of cash, TV and film producers
don't take real $100 bills and put them on the front and back of a
stack of $1 bills (or even just pieces of paper cut to size) but
instead use fake bills.
This is also seen any time where the character shows a bunch of bills.
Rather than going to the bank ...
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Chroma key is the effect used to replace a single color with video from another source. Commonly called "green screen", other colors, originally blue, and now orange or magenta can also be used, depending on the subject and effect desired. Wikipedia has a fairly detailed description.
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+1 for this very good question.
I will try to answer this question from the storyline of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle and my first guess would be on the fact that the creators of the show are so faithfully ardent to the original source material written by Doyle. The first reference to Moriarty in the novel comes on one of the 4 long ...
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I can't seem to find a actual sourced number but most of the places I checked had a budget of between 1.5 and 3 million per episode. There was no budget jump between seasons 1 and 2 so you would need between 30 and 60 million to produce the normal 20 episode season.
Your sets are normally amortized out over the course of the season as a part of the ...
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The Pontiac Aztek has something of a reputation. A bad one. It was Pontiac's failed attempt at making a crossover model: a midway model between a minivan, a pickup truck, and a full SUV. The public hated it, and it sold poorly. To add insult to injury, it consistently finds itself included in lists of the world's ugliest cars.
So it was the perfect car to ...
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According to an article from TV Guide, the four quadrants are split according to male or female and old or young. From another site about audience demographics, it appears the the old-young split is made at age 25.
Edit: Here's an image I found on a site for independent filmmakers:
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Quoted from Wikipedia:
Fincher considered the novel too infatuated with Tyler Durden and changed the ending to move away from him: "I wanted people to love Tyler, but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing."
Something I learned about Fight Club during an interview with Chuck Palanihuk is that he considers Fight Club a coming-of-age story; ...
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It's not a by-product of the Dolby encoding process, although Dolby does allow greater dynamic range.
Sound engineers employ a technique called "dynamic range compression" to reduce the difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a recording. Use of compression is much more pronounced and widespread than it was in the past, which explains your ...
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Sometimes yes sometimes no but what they eating in reality you never know.
Fake Food
Sometimes Food has often been improved for the purpose of
shooting. Like Lettuce will always be crisp, hamburger buns
perfect and full, cake light and fluffy. Ice cream is never melting,
unless that was the point. As good as the food may be made to look,
...
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It could be done in various ways:-
1) Different shots of small groups- Sometimes low budget movie uses the same people in different shots and combine the shots to make a large crowd scene.
2) In developing countries like India, getting a crowd is not tough. It is possible to get a large amount people for cheap prizes such as 100Rs/day. So why worry, you ...
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From How Film Composers Work:
The film music composer:
Meets with the director and movie producers, when the film has been shot and is being edited, to discuss music needs for the film.
Takes part in a spotting session, in which the film composer, director and others watch the movie and decide where each segment of music should start and stop ...
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I have not seen the trailers you mention, nor have I ever made a trailer, but this is my guess:
By necessity, trailers are completed before post-production is completed. Thus, the final audio mix is not complete. There is no baseline source (thus volumes), for say, a scream, relative to background noise. In fact, the actual scream from the movie probably ...
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The technical feature of audio formats that allows them to do this is called dynamic range. When mixing the audio for movies, the sound engineer is choosing to minimize the dialogue and maximize the audio for some effect.
You have several options to deal with this. The first is to check your audio receiver's manual. Look for a 'night mode' and enable it ...
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As a filmmaker, I can provide some insight into this, however there are always going to be exceptions to the rule.
In general, a film is scored after editing—a notable exception to this would be the specific use of a particular piece of established music, in which case the editor may well be asked to edit to the beats of that music.
For a scored ...
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They can use something called Spit Bucket.
Actor Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) explains:
When you consume something in a scene, you learn to be very circumspect because you may end up having to consume that amount 30 times.
When you're young, you think, "Man, it would be really cool if I smoke in this scene." Then, on take 18, you're green ...
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The green blood is to ease the violence level because they didn't want to make it a bloody mess for the kids viewing the film.
You can see that information on all over the fans and review sites for the movie
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Also, it brings up the theme of intentionally being captured. Bane was intentionally being captured so as to have access to Dr. Pavel. Later on in the third act, Bruce gets intentionally captured so as to have Lucious Fox access R&D, and then Selina Kyle saves him.
In 'The Dark Knight' the Joker is also intentionally captured so he can help Lau escape ...
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According to the Logos wiki,
In 2006, Walt Disney Pictures started using a new intro with a new CGI
animation with a very complex depiction of the Sleepy Beauty Castle
and its surroundings. It was a clear change from the old blue and
white intro with its stylized castle and 2D animation.
The new intro was first used on Pirates of the ...
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Firstly it depends on the budget, then the process is decided according to it.
As in developed countries like US getting junk cars from junkyard and blast then doesn't cost much but in small budget movies they replace Costly car with a cheap car and then they blast it. Like in the following example of Race 2
Where you can easily spot that two different ...
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To allow for maximum flexibility in editing, it is a good idea to not to consume any drinks and food. Since scenes are shot several times from different angles, the editor wants to be able to choose which takes to put together, without worrying about having to ensure that the level of a glass of wine was not changing often radically during an edit point.
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