Did you intend that for the venting thread?
Yes. Clearly I need help. Wow totally missed by an entire forum. That's a new one.
Did you intend that for the venting thread?
As a former police officer I can assure you that i would always close off any avenues for escape before telling someone they were under arrest. Hated footchases. Never caught anyone in one unless they were drunk or tripped over something!Question for anyone that’s in, been in or knows how law enforcement agencies actually work...., it frustrates the heck out of me when ‘officials’ of such, in (t.v.,films) announce themselves at a considerable distance away from their ‘target’, only to have an ensuing foot chase occur...., why!?.
Does this happen in reality ?
My daughter is relocating to Illinois she can't wait to learn to drive Stateside..but those roads!I don't know that we've given it a name on this side of the pond, but it's no different. It seems that staying at home because of the pandemic has further diminished what little skills people had for the act of driving a car, because so many people here are so much worse at it than they were before.
I bet he's spinning in his grave..Those are almost as annoying as the stupid Wilhelm scream.
To be fair, 2 & 3 were commonly done due to budgetary constraints. Effects shots like those used in the original BSG were both time consuming and expensive to produce effects heavy TV shows back in the '80s and early '90s didn't have the budgets that they do now. So in order to save money, they re-used existing footage or flipped existing footage to save money on effects shots. Remember, back when the original BSG came out, composites were done using optical printers which require multiple passes of the model(s) when shooting them, then it goes into an optical printer to combine everything together, they didn't have things like Avids or fancy digital compositing programs back then.2. The re use of same scenes to pad an Action fight scene.. BSG was notorious for it back in 78
3. Not so much now but stock footage inserted into TV shows
I loved and still do Silent Running but the Valley Forge ended up in I think Every Glen A Larsons productions..
Plus I guess they didn't expect you to binge everything SCIFI as a lot of us is did as a kid.. back then my main source of info were those compilation books themed on Scfi, horror etc mostly B/W photos of Buck Rogers (Larry Buster Crabb) up to SW with a smattering of 2001 and lots of movies you just couldn't access or watch till the wonders of Multi Region DVD players arrived on the scene...To be fair, 2 & 3 were commonly done due to budgetary constraints. Effects shots like those used in the original BSG were both time consuming and expensive to produce effects heavy TV shows back in the '80s and early '90s didn't have the budgets that they do now. So in order to save money, they re-used existing footage or flipped existing footage to save money on effects shots. Remember, back when the original BSG came out, composites were done using optical printers which require multiple passes of the model(s) when shooting them, then it goes into an optical printer to combine everything together, they didn't have things like Avids or fancy digital compositing programs back then.
My daughter is relocating to Illinois she can't wait to learn to drive Stateside..but those roads!
Some are Wider than our Village Green, I kid you not lol
On the subject of cinema..
1.Those made up Computer screens which are either low tech DOS or Next century 3D tech.. we're looking at you Mr Stark.
2. The re use of same scenes to pad an Action fight scene.. BSG was notorious for it back in 78
3. Not so much now but stock footage inserted into TV shows
I loved and still do Silent Running but the Valley Forge ended up in I think Every Glen A Larsons productions..
You may have a really good point about the symmetry and I hadn't even noticed about Boba!...You know, growing up in the 1970s and seeing these movies and TV shows during their first run, I wonder if spaceship design was intentionally symmetrical, for the added benefit of being able to "flip" the image and have the fighter going from screen left to screen right, or vice versa?
It still gets me that ROTJ Boba Fett in Jabba's palace pulls his blaster on Boushh/Leia, and the image is mirrored/flipped left to right. Was not corrected in the Special Edition, DVD or Blu-ray releases.
As a former police officer I can assure you that i would always close off any avenues for escape before telling someone they were under arrest. Hated footchases. Never caught anyone in one unless they were drunk or tripped over something!
I realize the budget/production reasons for it, but the repetition in BSG did get tiresome.
It was kind of the same on Airwolf. After they'd built up enough stock footage of the helicopter, all the chases felt the same. There was very little footage of it interacting with the enemy craft of the week. Just stock shot banking left, stock shot climbing, stock shot firing. The battles were mostly an editorial exercise rather than something produced from the ground up. It also didn't help that you knew they were going to win 10 seconds before it happened because they used the same music every time.
But what could they do? Both of those shows were expensive to produce with BSG requiring movie level effects on a TV budget and time frame in a time where such things required movie level budgets and movie production times. And in the case of Airwolf. flying Airwolf was probably not cheap to do, even back in the '80s. You got to figure that thing probably sucked gas faster than a normal Bell 222 would because of all of the added things to make it look the way it did. Then was the pilot or pilots that you had pay to fly the thing who probably started getting paid the minute they started strapping themselves in. Between those two things and maintenance costs, it would be natural for them want to keep filming new flying sequences to a minimum in order to keep each episode within budget.I realize the budget/production reasons for it, but the repetition in BSG did get tiresome.
It was kind of the same on Airwolf. After they'd built up enough stock footage of the helicopter, all the chases felt the same. There was very little footage of it interacting with the enemy craft of the week. Just stock shot banking left, stock shot climbing, stock shot firing. The battles were mostly an editorial exercise rather than something produced from the ground up. It also didn't help that you knew they were going to win 10 seconds before it happened because they used the same music every time.
I am shook. I didn't realize anyone still said blimey...Bb
You may have a really good point about the symmetry and I hadn't even noticed about Boba!...
Blimey...