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Editing took more time over expected.
I was planning to take about a month to complete editing of the scene “Purge”, but It took me six months to finally finish half of it.
The main reason why it took so long was the replacement of the building.
As I mentioned before, I am planning to change the Police Spinner’s takeoff point to a different location from the location in the original version.
Changing Police Spinner takeoff point
In order to make this change, the building behind Deckard and Guff needed to be replaced with Building B (the Bookstore Building). However, due to a layering technique that Ridley Scott had developed during the filming of “Blade Runner”, the process of replacing the building took much longer than expected.
The layering technique developed by Ridley Scott
One of the techniques that Ridley Scott developed to create Blade Runner is the layering technique.
The layering technique is to divide the space to be filmed into several layers from the camera to the back, and place people and objects on each layer. By adding many layers, you can see depth in space and feel the resolution of the information.
However, if I would replace only the building in the spinner takeoff scene with another building, these layers would get in the way of the replacement.
I need to mask out the people and objects in each layer and replace only the buildings. This masking process took too much time.
Highlights of the first half part
Now, let me mention three highlights of the first half part.
- The complete transformation of the Police Spinner from running form to flying form!
You can see the complete transformation of the Police Spinner from running form to flying form, which you can not see in the original film.
Also, You can watch the making videos at the following pages. - A complete recreation of Los Angeles city scape based on Syd Mead’s production sketches!
You can see the Los Angeles city scape based on Syd Mead’s production sketches.
See the following page for details. - Fixed the take-off point of the Police Spinner
The takeoff point of the spinner has been changed to a different location from the original version.
See the following page for details.