{"id":3416,"date":"2019-03-04T23:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2019-03-04T23:52:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:52:47","slug":"they-shall-not-grow-old-opinions-and-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/2019\/03\/04\/they-shall-not-grow-old-opinions-and-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"They Shall Not Grow Old – Opinions and Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie industry has been captivating minds since the dawn the of motion picture in the late 19th century. A series of black and white images with no sounds, may seem boring in today society although it was an astonishing achievement back then. These B&W images stitched together and played at 10 – 20 frames per second with possible music overlay spawned a whole new market for entertainment. However today\u2019s youth are bored by histories obsolete motion pictures. Film technology has evolved quite a bit over the past 100 years, and much greater film quality is expected from todays generations. Current expectations seek high resolutions and accurate stunning colors and audio which give the film a near lifelike feeling. These expectations have seemingly made the creation of films and documentaries with old footage seem nearly impossible. <\/span><\/p>\n

The newest work of Peter Jackson, \u201cThey Shall Not Grow Old\u201d debunks this myth, as he used original B&W silent footage from World War One to create a stunning and captivating film with immense realism. As film technology has evolved, computer techniques to make the old seem new have also. Jackson used state of the art technology to bring accurate color, resolution and audio to his picture. The visual editing of their process was composed of two main parts. The first was to bring the low resolution black and white footage to a higher resolution with a cleaner look. This task is where Jackson\u2019s team spent most of their time. Their process consisted of sharpening footage, correcting overly and underly exposed shots and reducing random noise in the shot that came from degrading tapes and tape copying. I found the before and after shots of overly exposed film particularly impressive. The second visual task, was to colorize the images. Colorization has always been controversial topic, as some feel as though old films were directed with B&W style in mind. They argue that colorizing film degrades from the directors vision. However Jackson describes how the soldiers during the war did not experience it in black and white, so he aimed to have the film resemble what they saw as close as he could. The end result was stunning, the visual effects combined with sounds effects of all genres created a far more captivating video than the originals shots. <\/span><\/p>\n

Overall the film did a great job telling the intense tail of the first World War. However the process of creating it is what I found most impressive. Before the introduction and following the credits Peter Jackson summarizes the process of the films creation. This began by telling the viewer that this was not a normal film\/documentary with recreated shots that theorized what the soldiers daily life was like. Jackson\u2019s intro gives the viewer a vivid sense realism while watching. Although the video was not 4k quality like works filmed today, the teams editing work combined with an contextualizing intro gave the film realism unparalleled by re enacted documentaries. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie industry has been captivating minds since the dawn the of motion picture in the late 19th century. A series of black and white images with no sounds, may seem boring in today society although it was an astonishing achievement back then. These B&W images stitched together and played at 10 – 20 frames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}