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How much does the use of bluescreen affect the size and building process of the sets?
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Answered by: Gavin Bocquet
Every set is different.
The bluescreen is just part of a process that we include in producing an environment that will work for the shoot. Whether you go back to the earlier days of matte paintings, scenic paintings or miniatures, it’s still the same process of trying to come up with a way that you can provide enough real backgrounds for the director to use, and then enhance that later.
You make assumptions throughout the script developing process. By talking to John Knoll at ILM and George Lucas, Rick McCallum and Doug Chiang, you can come to some general conclusion about what is going to be best for that particular scene. And it’s different on every one; it’s always affected by the parameters of a scene and what’s required in it. For instance, how many shots there are: for a "one off" shot, one-shot scene or a two-shot scene, you could probably say that there’s less reason for us to build a full set. The cost is actually quite comparable for ILM to do it. Once you start having ten, twenty, or thirty shots in a scene in a set, then it becomes much more expensive for ILM to construct what we could really build more cheaply.
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