Transformers Filming has completed

[TigerClaw]

Acording to Don Murphy on his message board, Filming for the Transformers movie is finally complete. Link to the post here.

Here's what he posted.

Today is the last day of main unit shooting. In two hours we'll break for lunch. Then blow up more **** in downtown LA.

Next week a reduced unit with very few actors will head to different cities and pick up some establishing shots. Then some of the team will head to the Frozen North.

The film is basically done today boys and girls. And by done I mean filming. If ever there was a film that was really going to be made in post production, this is it. Much editing and many effects to go.

How do I feel? There is a promo reel that has been put together for exhibitors and retailers that is mind boggling. There is a trailer being put together for later this year that should blow your mind.

I'm feeling pretty good that we've made a film that you will like. Only time will tell.

I had a water pipe break in the downstairs of our house yesterday. A neighbor called to say the firemen were breaking in. We imagined a lot of damage and, oddly, found very little. Fortunate.

May your Sunday be fortunate Stooges. Hang tight!

 

[Theweepeople]

I don't believe you. You are trying to convince me that this high budget potential blockbuster film was completed in 3 months? What in the heck is the production team going to do for the next 9 months before the film is released?

 

[ragdus]

cgi

 

[Theweepeople]

cgi

CGI for 9 months? You're kidding right.

 

[Orko Is King]

I don't believe you. You are trying to convince me that this high budget potential blockbuster film was completed in 3 months? What in the heck is the production team going to do for the next 9 months before the film is released?

Fixing Megatron.

 

[Stringer]

^They need more time than that if thats the case.

 

[muscaremy]

CGI for 9 months? You're kidding right.

big films need a lot for cgi....look at spidey 3. had they not decided on reshoots then theyd have had wat 10-11 months till movie came out...its all bout cgi and fx

 

[Psionic Force]

Maybe the movie is not as 'human storyline driven' as has been mentioned.

 

[Hotwire]

The CGI work on this movie is supposed to take CGI itself to a whole new level. Something that's never been done before. Like the level that the Final Fantasy movie reached. So, for it to take almost 9 months to get it done, doesn't surprise me at all.

 

[CFlash]

The CGI work on this movie is supposed to take CGI itself to a whole new level. Something that's never been done before.

Mal'akai, check this quote from Dean Devlin years after Godzilla 98.

"I can say ­ from my own experience ­ that when I concentrated only on the effect and not on the character and story, then the effect didn't have any power. The reality is, when we made Godzilla, we broke ground effects-wise. We did things that had never been done before ­ and some things that still haven't been duplicated. Yet, when people talk about great effects in movies, no one ever talks about Godzilla... and believe me, it's not the quality of the effects ­ it's really because you aren't involved, so the effects didn't have the impact on you."

"The bottom line is that we had not earned the love of that character... had I done a better job in writing the script, I think we'd still be talking about Godzilla today."

-Dean Devlin

 

[Dr Lee]

As someone who has dabbled in CGI stuff i can tell you that is isn't that easy and quick to do, So the 9 months that they have to do the CGI in is acurate.

 

[Hotwire]

He makes good points CFlash. But I think great CGI shouldn't be noticed at all. Well, it should be noticed and then forgotten. (See LOTR and King Kong.) In fact, when I first saw Final Fantasy:Spirts Within, I actually found myself forgeting that it was all CGI.

 

[CherryRedSpider]

Mal. have you seen FF7: Advent Children? If you haven't, got it favourited over at youtube. It's amazing.

 

[Theweepeople]

Mal'akai, check this quote from Dean Devlin years after Godzilla 98.

"I can say ­ from my own experience ­ that when I concentrated only on the effect and not on the character and story, then the effect didn't have any power. The reality is, when we made Godzilla, we broke ground effects-wise. We did things that had never been done before ­ and some things that still haven't been duplicated. Yet, when people talk about great effects in movies, no one ever talks about Godzilla... and believe me, it's not the quality of the effects ­ it's really because you aren't involved, so the effects didn't have the impact on you."

"The bottom line is that we had not earned the love of that character... had I done a better job in writing the script, I think we'd still be talking about Godzilla today."

-Dean Devlin

I didn't know Dean Devlin thought the effects of that film were amazing. I wasn't impressed.

 

[Hotwire]

Mal. have you seen FF7: Advent Children? If you haven't, got it favourited over at youtube. It's amazing.

Could you post the link, please?

 

[CFlash]

He makes good points CFlash. But I think great CGI shouldn't be noticed at all. Well, it should be noticed and then forgotten. (See LOTR and King Kong.) In fact, when I first saw Final Fantasy:Spirts Within, I actually found myself forgeting that it was all CGI.

Me too. Possibly because it was a pretty darn good sci-fi story!

As for Godzilla, I thought the creature design and the effects overall were freakin incredible. I waited so long to see a Godzilla movie just like that. It's just heartbreaking that it failed on so many other levels.

 

[Nebins]

Great now this thread is going to dry up just like the Spider-man thread.

 

[CherryRedSpider]

Could you post the link, please?

Sent you a pm with FF7 links. All of the movie, think it's 1 hour and 30 min. Each clip is 10 min. though

edit for anyone interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMRLlpQD9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFhE9_txD_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dJhfjcvOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR-HkZZlXo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLP9pdwoHGg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQkJkRXp10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1yoz4Pdbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQTAX18MgPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hiS3-kRQKg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMa5ZJXB8oI

 

[Advocate05]

You can buy it for 20 at wal-mart.

BTW I am glad they are taking that long with the effects. And I suspect it is more about the machines than the script leak suggested.

 

[Avangarde]

They can take all the time in the world with this movie as long as they don't screw it up, I can live with that.

 

[TKing]

^^I don't know, if they took too long (no matter how good it was), some people would probably get bored after a while and lose interest.

 

[Headless Knight]

^^I don't know, if they took too long (no matter how good it was), some people would probably get bored after a while and lose interest.

This doesn't make sense at all. The movie will be in theathers in the announced date, or else a lot of people will get fired.

 

[TKing]

This doesn't make sense at all. The movie will be in theathers in the announced date, or else a lot of people will get fired.

Did you even read the post before mine?

They can take all the time in the world with this movie as long as they don't screw it up, I can live with that.

Make sense now?

 

[AyeCapn]

Keep in mind that they also may have built in some contingency time, as well as time for reshoots if necessary.

 

[Headless Knight]

Did you even read the post before mine?

Yeah, and I actually meant to quote that one also, but you know, life is short, etc.