BvS Batman/Superman Movie - Cinematography?

Those aren't even half of the beautiful shots from that film. Snyder (and Fong) really do have talent in the visual arena. I find sometimes Snyder is dismissed as just being good for visuals, as though this talent doesn't mean much. He deserves more credit than he gets for his visual eye and work with people like Fong. When it comes to movies that are based on comic books, visuals matter and help tell the story.


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Those aren't even half of the beautiful shots from that film. Snyder (and Fong) really do have talent in the visual arena. I find sometimes Snyder is dismissed as just being good for visuals, as though this talent doesn't mean much. He deserves more credit than he gets for his visual eye and work with people like Fong. When it comes to movies that are based on comic books, visuals matter and help tell the story.


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Snyder's knack is visuals and attention to detail whereas Michael Bay is great at poorly overly saturated colors and boom boom.
 
Those aren't even half of the beautiful shots from that film. Snyder (and Fong) really do have talent in the visual arena. I find sometimes Snyder is dismissed as just being good for visuals, as though this talent doesn't mean much. He deserves more credit than he gets for his visual eye and work with people like Fong. When it comes to movies that are based on comic books, visuals matter and help tell the story.


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It's like you're there! Again....chill down my spine.
 
From the looks of Supes official picture and Larry Fong at the chair, I'm very confident that it'll be similar to Watchmen.

I'm not complaining. I lovveee Watchmen yo.
 
I am shooting my next film on a black magic and having shot my first feature on SD the difference is immense, to shoot HD with the feel of 35mm is a dream come true...

Come on, not this again...... The Black Magic, whether it is the 2K or the 4K one doesn't have the "feel" of 35 mm, same thing for Alexa & Red. The people saying that need to rewatch a movie shot on 35 mm, like lately Mud, or Out Of The Furnace, or Man Of Steel, or else, digital looks like digital, you can soften it up with filters or with certain lenses, take some of the digital look off, but it'll still look like digital. You can also add some film grain layers on top of it, but that's not fooling anyone.

Even the Alexa when used by Deakins or some other great DP doesn't look like film, you see it immediately when a movie is shot on 35 mm, like I said, unmistakable texture. What's funny is this drive for most of those shooting digital to get the "film" look, well, you want the film look, just shoot 16 or 35 mm, or 65 or 70 mm, etc.


Sorry for the rant, I just cannot stomach that kind of statement.
 
Come on, not this again...... The Black Magic, whether it is the 2K or the 4K one doesn't have the "feel" of 35 mm, same thing for Alexa & Red. The people saying that need to rewatch a movie shot on 35 mm, like lately Mud, or Out Of The Furnace, or Man Of Steel, or else, digital looks like digital, you can soften it up with filters or with certain lenses, take some of the digital look off, but it'll still look like digital. You can also add some film grain layers on top of it, but that's not fooling anyone.

Even the Alexa when used by Deakins or some other great DP doesn't look like film, you see it immediately when a movie is shot on 35 mm, like I said, unmistakable texture. What's funny is this drive for most of those shooting digital to get the "film" look, well, you want the film look, just shoot 16 or 35 mm, or 65 or 70 mm, etc.


Sorry for the rant, I just cannot stomach that kind of statement.

Well, I like the look of the test footage thus far, but yes I see what you are saying and no it's not 'actually' 35mm and I would love to but time and cost contraints on a self funded feature mean I'm doing the best I can with what I have available to me. Hence why I said 'feel' of 35mm and not actually 35mm.
 
Cinematography is pretty much the only thing i have no reason to be concerned about. It will be a visual feast, for sure.
 
My only wants in terms of cinematography are less desaturated colors, less shaky cam, and less zoom-ins.
 
It won't look exactly like Watchmen. Larry Fong confirmed they won't be moving away from the aesthetic from MOS. Besides, that would be WAY too much of a drastic change in aesthetic.
 
Just talking in terms of movement really. I think shaky cam worked great for a grittier first film introducing Superman, but now we can move on imo.
 
It will probably a tad more polished, but yeah, the handheld style works so well on MOS.
 
I don't know anything about cinematography but I was looking at the IMDB listing of what cameras are supposedly being used for BvS.

Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2. Panavision C- and E- Series lenses.
 
It won't look exactly like Watchmen. Larry Fong confirmed they won't be moving away from the aesthetic from MOS. Besides, that would be WAY too much of a drastic change in aesthetic.
Agreed. One important thing to do is give continuity. Just a few improvements and that's all.
 
That was ****ing beautiful. And anyone that doesn't like Snyder's movie HAS to give him props for visual eyegasm!!! I remain very excited to see what he will do with BvS. I still want to see a slow motion Batman take down like in the Arkham games!
Man Of Steel is his best looking film. Really dislike his old style and think it's a huge step back from that, Nolan's Batman and even now after Marvel releasing a film as good as Winter Soldier. A real world environment adds so much scale. The nighttime scenes in Watchmen have that claustrophobic school play setting of a film like Batman Returns.
 
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I keep thinking about how dour the entirety of MOS looked, including the first flying scene -arguably one of the few moments of actual joy in the film- and I genuinely wonder what laws of color use Snyder must have learned in art school to make him think this was an appropriate look for a Superman movie (and one with "hope" as a main theme, curiously). Not that I presume to better versed than him on the matter; I'd just love to hear his reasoning. I find it absurd, not to mention outright sad, how they tried to negate the character's history as a brightly colored character, all in the name of "realism".

Any Superman movie that sees it fitting to present the character looking like this under intense sunlight deserves to have its sequel fretted over.
 
And that's without mentioning the recently released Supes pic. :facepalm:
 
It won't look exactly like Watchmen. Larry Fong confirmed they won't be moving away from the aesthetic from MOS. Besides, that would be WAY too much of a drastic change in aesthetic.

In terms of visuals aesthetics alone, Watchmen is probably the most beautiful comic book film I've ever seen. My hope is that they're able to emulate that approach to at least some extent.
 

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