Little Background on the Cinematographer
American cinematographer George Walton Lucas Jr. is producer, director, editor and screenwriter; he was born in the town of Modesto, located in the state of California. George Walton Lucas, Jr. (May 14 of 1944, Modesto, California, United States) is a filmmaker States, creator of the hit film of Star Wars and later Indiana Jones, president of Lucasfilm, LucasArts Entertainment Company, and Lucas Digital Ltd, Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Learning Ltd LucasBooks. He was considered two consecutive years as the number 4 of the most powerful in the entertainment industry, just behind the owners of Time Warner, Turner and Steven Spielberg (Burelli 05).
Motorist and the speed, the first option was devoted Lucas professional motorsport and participate in NASCAR racing, but a serious accident that nearly cost him his life he brushed motor world and introduced him to the big screen when he decided attend the University of Southern California to study cinematography. There he directed and wrote a dozen short films, both documentary and fiction, since the mid-'60s, including "Herbie" (1966), "The Emperor" (1967) or "THX 1138 4EB: The Electronic Labyrinth" (1967), science fiction film that earned him an award from film school and a scholarship to attend a filming of a movie at Warner Bros (Lima, Pozzer, Ornellas, et al., 44–51).
Short Synopsis of the Film
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is an American film directed by cinematographer George Lucas and released in 2002 (Paulhus 482–488). The film is the second chapter in the timeline and the fifth film to be produced, in the series of episodes saga. It is also the second part in the prequel trilogy, begun by Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and finished with Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lima, Pozzer, Ornellas, et al., 44–51).
A decade later date after the events of The Phantom Menace, the Republic is in crisis. A movement separatist threatens peace. Senator Padmé Amidala, former Queen of Naboo, returns to the Galactic Senate to give its vote on the creation of a Grand Army of the Republic, but not enough Jedi to maintain peace and order in the galaxy.
Just lands his ship on Coruscant, a victim of a failed attempt to assassinate. In the attack dies Cordé it’s dual. As a result, Chancellor Palpatine asks the Grand Master Jedi that Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker be responsible for their safety.
That night, a mysterious bounty hunter tries to kill the senator. But Anakin Skywalker manages to save time and start a chase through the skies of the city, completed the chase and just at the moment when the young Padawan and his teacher trying to figure out the identity of the person who hired the bounty hunter, another bounty hunter kills (Gleicher 27–36).
George Lucas gradually exposes his characters from the first trilogy (of which the most important is Anakin Skywalker). For example, showing the face of the bounty hunter Jango Fett (the "father" of Boba Fett), he reveals at the same time the face of all the soldiers of the Republic. Also note that Bail Organa, Owen Lars and Beru appear for the first time (Jacobs 650–654). It may be noted that the film is constructed like a thriller: all events are told from the point of view of the heroes, with the exception of a short scene towards the end of the film reveals that behind these events (Paulhus 485).
Did you like the film or not? Why?
For the film, I would go for much of the negative comments focused on aspects of the script; I recognized an improvement over The Phantom Menace. I would score the film two stars out of four possible and criticize the romance between Padme Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, based on the "most basic romantic cliches and tired" and the dialogue "flat" which is maintained during the first hour of the film to establish the plot points and inform viewers of what has happened since the end of the first installment, therefore comparing the characters with lawyers instead of heroes (Jacobs 650–654). Finally I would say that I didn’t like the film criticizing the lack of chemistry between the pair character and dialogue "flat", adding that even actors like Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman were able to cheer, except for Christopher Lee and his portrayal of Count Dooku.
Did the visuals enhance the story? Why and how?
The quality of visual effects described the film as "a visual narrative of the first order", stressing also the charisma of characters like Yoda and C3PO and Ewan McGregor nice transition with omens of Obi Wan played by Alec Guinness in the trilogy classical, and including a comparison between the cruelty of Christopher Lee Count Dooku and Darth Vader James Earl Jones (Gleicher 27–36).
Some Detail about the Visual Approach
This is the first Star Wars film that used high-definition digital camera during filming for most scenes with real actors. The film was financial success, grossing over $ 300 million at the box office only in the United States. It contains a graphically rich, with very different atmospheres: an ultra futuristic megalopolis (Coruscant), a rustic and bucolic atmosphere (Naboo), a desert planet atmosphere western (Tatooine and Geonosis), an ocean planet swept by storms (Kardan Casanova 171).
The film promoted technological development, moving Hollywood in the "digital age." The film was shot on a digital camera HDW-F900, developed by Sony and Panavision, which uses a high-quality 24-frame digital system. Despite the conflicting opinions about digital cinema, more directors are beginning to engage in digital photography. Contrary to the fears of Lucas, in the Tunisian desert camera was able to continue shooting even at temperatures above +51 ° C (Burelli 05). Lucas claimed that he wanted to take on a digital camera is still "pose a latent threat," but by the time Sony has not had time to make the number of cameras. In 2002, this film was the second film, shot on a digital camera (the first was "Vidocq"). Despite all the efforts to convince Lucas cinemas move to digital projectors for better viewing "Episode II», few have followed his advice (Jacobs 650–654).
Instead of the standard used in the movie storyboards digital animation - roughly made, computer generated, digital scene nonetheless allowed the actors to understand more precisely the scene that they were playing against a blue screen. Unlike most of the episodes in the shooting of the Battle of Geonosis unused by any similar reception of digital animation or storyboard usual - instead, each filmed an episode went into animation department, where the stage was filled with different kinds of inserts action. The purpose of this was to make a lot of small events that unfold during the battle that the audience might not even notice, but they created a picture of saturation action. Animation department was free to create a fantasy for such events; Lucas selects the most appropriate scene and added them to the film. In addition to innovations in digital photography, this film used "digital doubles" - computer-generated models that duplicate the stunt actors in certain scenes.
Works Cited
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