The Dark Knight Comcast Dark Knight (Check First Post For Downloads)

[notoriousnate87]

has anyone designed a wallpaper from the comcast website that features the Joker sitting down in front of the window with cards all over the floor. On the window it says "Why so serious?". If anyone can has not, can someone make a comp wallpaper of that for me please in hi-res? thanks!

 

[Joker'sHenchman]

I have the whole "college is the pathway to sucess" engraved in me. I really can't see myself not going to college, but I also understand what you guys are saying about it not being the most important thing in the film industry. It probably wouldn't hurt though. Plus, I figure if I go to a film school in California, then I can start working in Hollywood right after.

 

[notoriousnate87]

Man it's the battle of the titans .

the screeshot of Batman reminds me of a frame from "The Dark Knight Returns". I love how angry and fierce they appear against each other.

 

[Anita18]

I have the whole "college is the pathway to sucess" engraved in me. I really can't see myself not going to college, but I also understand what you guys are saying about it not being the most important thing in the film industry. It probably wouldn't hurt though. Plus, I figure if I go to a film school in California, then I can start working in Hollywood right after.

Then go to college and learn non-film-related stuff? (It's included in my "pull a Nolan" advice since he went to university and majored in English. )

The problem, I think, with going right to art school straight from high school is that you'll be learning just art and you won't be immersed in other things that will help your art in the long run, especially being around people who are doing other things. In fact, there are many art schools out there who prefer that you apply when you're a little older (and even have a first bachelor's degree under your belt), since they want that versatility.

But if film is the one and only thing you want to do, then by all means go for it.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

wow some of you guys will never cease to amaze me!!

 

[StillTheKing]

does anyone know where I can find more .gifs of the comcast trailer or any other trailers/ tv spots. I can never find any

 

[Alixyveth]

Is this site broken for anyone else? Mine loads and doesn't ever finish loading... It worked yesterday, but now it seems to be dead or something.

 

[Caped Crusader]

site is not working for me rite now

 

[kid bosco]

can someone plz post a pic of the joker with his hand on his hip, after he say's F***?

He does not say F***.
He sucks his teeth.

 

[titan101]

i'm hoping the interrogation room scene between batman and joker is similar to these two scenes from exorcist 3 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz20o8YCkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxe1gEsLug

 

[Lienlien]

does anybody have a high res version of the background of the site on the download page ??????

 

[riskproductions]

Woah all of a sudden everyones talking about cinematography and film school, I want in! I just got an A- in my Cine 1 class at Chapman University lol, im majoring in Film Production. Our only competition in the US is USC. What did i miss?

 

[riskproductions]

Okay imagine your filming the interrogation room scene with Joker and Bats. We start off with an OTS (over the shoulder) shot from Joker to Bats. The same shot where he says "You wanted me? Here I am." Okay, that side we're shoot on, we've established an imaginary 180 degree line. We can move the camera anywhere on this line, switching focus from Batman to Joker. But we can not cross this line, because when the camera cuts back to another character their line of sight as been shifted and seems off.

So in the trailer, Batman is looking camera right. If they had stayed on the line with Joker, Joker should be looking camera left, so that the two seem like they are looking at each other. Instead, in the trailer, Joker is looking camera right. The same direction as Batman. If this wasn't a trailer and the scene played out as so, it would knock off your viewing of the scene and wouldn't feel right.

The only way you can motivate to the other side of this line is if you move the camera over there while filming.

Wow spot on, I never noticed that until now. Yeah that is crazy that the two shots in the interrogation scene shoe the characters on the same side. Yeah to break the line it has to be motivated like someone mentioned. Maybe theres a nice 360 handheld circle done in the middle, kind of like in the "you look nervous" bit. When you see bats, the camera does look like its tracking right slightly

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

The Joker looks really creepy to me laughing like that.


Perfect..

 

[Carnotaur3]

Wouldn't a zoom compress the image? It seems more like a tracking/dolly shot to me but I'm no expert...

On a side note, I'm loving how this has become the "cinematography thread"!

I guess it could be a dolly push in too, but if it's getting real close to the footage, it's most likely a zoom. Zoom doesn't compress the image, not on a film camera.

 

[Carnotaur3]

By the way, when I mentioned a digital zoom, I meant that the actual footage was stabilized and that they digitally zoomed it for the trailer. In which case, a digital zoom can show a compressed image.

 

[the_monk]

This shot alone deserves an Oscar:

Methinks Mr. Nolan has been watching The French Connection...

 

[titan101]

Methinks Mr. Nolan has been watching The French Connection...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2HBSuM_fLQ

good catch .

 

[Yurka]

Methinks Mr. Nolan has been watching The French Connection...

I thought the same thing

 

[Zohan Dvir]

Methinks Mr. Nolan has been watching The French Connection...

In the BB special features section about the Tumbler when they are talking about the chase sequence after Arkham Nolan says something about trying to emulate car chases of French Connection and Ronin as opposed to studio backlot chases. So its not surprising that the Lambo sequence looks like it came out of that film.

 

[Nightmare]

Wow yurka, that avy is awesome

 

[Carnotaur3]

I wonder if that cop has to guts to pull over Bruce Wayne LOL

 

[BatmanFanatic]

I got splashed with acid...

I haven't changed. Begins never impressed me, just wasn't what I expected or hoped for from Nolan. I knew TDK would continue down the same track but even within those confines I was excited about its potential, and alot of the elements that I thought would have made Begins a better film I saw being brought up in TDK as it was filming, so that's why I was/still am excited. Things like the reaction from the public, the media and politicians. On the other hand there's a couple of things that've tempered my excitement since last year, the same style of dialogue that I previously attributed to Goyer, and Bale's sort of disengaged Bruce is still here

I always find it interesting when someone has the same likes and dislikes as I do about the film. I am also hoping that those issues are resolved in TDK, though some "Goyer-like" dialogue is still evident.

uh...

JOKER
Come on, HIT ME!

The bat-pod skids around him last minuet and crashes some distance down the road

JOKER (angry)
FINE!

he walks over to BATMAN whom is traped under his 600 pound** bat-pod

You MUST watch this!!!! LOL!!!!!

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He's talking about the shots crossing the invisible 180 degree line. It's a "no no" in cinematography unless it's a motivated shot to do so. I wouldn't judge the two shots that way yet because they could very well be take from different parts of the scene. That Joker laugh could come in at a different time after a motived 180 turn.

Yes, but when the rule is broken for those motivated shots it can be one of the COOLEST things on film t: Really disorientating.

Pull a Nolan and don't go to film school - start making your own movies now.

Film school, like all art schools, are tremendously good for connections, but it's not like people look at your resume and immediately throw it away if you didn't graduate from a good film school. Your portfolio is way more important.

I agree, but as someone who just got an AFA at a good community college I consider it to be well worth it. Your portfolio is what people look at, but it's very difficult to have a good quality portfolio and the confidence to know that your portfolio is good if you haven't had the years of doing school projects and teachers and other students critiquing the heck out of your work. Now that I'm done with that I really feel like a professional who takes this stuff seriously, even though I did full time commissioned art work for two years before I ever went to school, I didn't feel completely "vetted" as an artist until I got the formal training and feedback from people in the biz.

Now as it turns out, because of my previous professional experience I was already head and shoulders above most of the other students, but I still learned a lot and the teachers just took what I already knew and pushed me to the next level and having that built up my confidence as well, which is invaluable when your job as a creative person is basically "selling yourself" and your skills.

So what I would say is definitely take advantage of a good local community college program to at least get a 2 year degree in the fundamentals under your belt before you try to "get in the biz" or make a film from nothing. I certainly don't think the incredibly expensive foo-foo film schools are going to teach you anything more remarkable than a community college or a state school, so save the money unless your parents are paying for it or you want the prestige factor.

 

[Conebone69]

Wow yurka, that avy is awesome

I dont know how many people said that in the last few hours, lol

 

[MiniBond]

THX a lot !!!!


I love Harvey there !