Watch a movie on DVD while listening to the commentary track. Post a blog entry describing something interesting you learned about how the movie was made.
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Anna Pearson
2/6/2013 02:43:28 am
Star Wars Commentary Track
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Arda Kanberoglu
2/15/2013 07:54:40 am
The Hangover (Todd Phillips) Commentary
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Arda Kanberoglu
2/15/2013 08:26:39 am
The Hangover (Todd Phillips) Commentary
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Athavan Balendran
2/17/2013 11:04:16 am
This is the first time I am listening to a commentary track for a movie. I actually had no idea directors and writers did things like this because they are really interesting especially for understanding the reasoning behind some sections of the movie. We often complain if a movie does not resemble the book enough. Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens describe how difficult it was to adapt the book. They discuss the limitations of what would work on screen and in what manner would they go around doing that. Jackson himself discusses many scenes that were cut, but most of the time says because of “pace reasons”. Apparently the movie was given a running time, because of which caused many changes to be made. Jackson says that they only had a certain amount of money and it would have been far too expensive to put the entire book into the movie. They discuss a lot about how location was extremely important. Walsh or Jackson would explain the reasons or shooting in those specific areas. Apparently Peter Jackson did not direct all the scenes, sometimes Walsh or Boyens would direct other scenes. This commentary gives tribute to some of the crazy lengths these guys went to make this movie. They made different size looms so the stitching would look smaller on the hobbits and bigger on the bigger people, and they chose woods with different size grain for the scenes in, for example, Bag End, so that the table would look proportional with the two different size people. They also explain other things like the and how prosthetics they made 1800 hobbit feet, miniatures up to 24 feet high, the difficulty of making the Balrog and mine entrance as both were drawings, and things like clothing, like how the ring wraiths actually have embroidering on their cloaks. Mike Hopkins explains how he got the elves to sound the way they sound. He recorded the actors at normal speed then slowed down their voices to accommodate the slight slo-mo used when the elves are on screen. Howard Shore talks about the music and its evolution. He talks about how the fellowship theme builds up and changes through the movie, and points out the many different themes used in the various places in Middle-Earth.
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