Sunday, February 21, 2010

Virtually reality television

One of my friends posted this in his Facebook stream, and I think it's equal parts cool and sad. It's truly amazing what technology can do these days to make scenes from your favourite television series' even MORE dramatic, and you may not even notice.

This YouTube video demonstrates all the green-screening used in some of the most popular shows on TV these days.



So what do you think? Awesome? Disappointing? I'm torn, too. Obviously, it's expensive to have a burning ferry cued up to film, but some of those background shots of extra snow seem a little excessive. Someone couldn't just shovel some more snow onto the set? Come on!

My favourite comment on this video comes from Geminii27: "I think there was a real scene shot once in 1878..."

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