ST The Cinematography of "The Rise of Skywalker"

This shot really bothered me. It looks so amateurish. You can tell where the different planes are in the composite to get an artificial parallax effect. If a fan made it with their home computer, I'd say it was fantastic. For a multi million dollar production... it looks bad.

 

"Artificial parallax effect"?

Kinda seems like the sort of thing 99.9999999% of the non-cinematographer-by-profession audience is neither going to notice nor care about. Therefore Abrams & Mindel probably shouldn't either.

That shot looks great.

 

whole point of a good cinematographer (or any creative position really) is that they put work into literally every detail even if the audience won't "notice" it. I don't think abrams or mindel would agree with this

 

All this Earthlike places took the illusion of a GFFA to pieces.

 

The prequels are full of "earthlike" places.

They had the crazier planets too, and sure, I'd welcome a bit more of that here too, but each trilogy has the earth environments without much tinkering with them.

 

I've been watching this moment on a loop since yesterday. Just gorgeous.

 

I like it too. Reminds of the prequels... it’s got a real sense of scale.

 

Anyone else noticed how each of the 3 ST films has its own color grading/palette and that's reflected in the marketing as well - their respective logos and posters?

- Yellow on TFA (Jakku and yellowish hue throughout the whole of the film).
- Red in TLJ (Muted/toned down colors throughout the whole film, where the red is made to contrast the most - showcasing especially in the Battle of Crait).
- Blue in TROS (Blue-ish colors throughout the film's key set pieces - Kijimi, The ocean duel on Kef Bir and pretty much all of Exogol).

I simply love how each film has its own unique style with regards to the visuals

 

TROS easily has the worst "scene/sequence editing and transitions" of all SW movies other than AOTC (long transitions that usually start/finish with wide shots of people talking and/or walking in blatant CGI surroundings). Many of the scenes and sequences of TROS jump to the next one in jerky, frantic fashion, like a tv sitcom or something. That, and the dagger subplot, is my main issue with the film.

 

Attack of the Clones is great, and most of those are miniatures, not cgi.