svelteciderWhat is your cinema hot take?
Hemingways_ShotgunCGI shouldn’t win cinematography or even special effects awards.
Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc…)
A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It’s not the same.
If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.
Oh…You’ve got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great…cool shot…but took nothing to actually create it.
If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.
Made it in a computer? It’s meaningless.
OwlOh I’m not saying there isn’t skill involved. There’s obviously artistic skill involved.
But there’s already awards for that kind of thing. It’s a completely different skill set completely removed from the collaborative nature of film-making and film special effects.
One person sitting behind a computer, no matter how skilled, isn’t the same as a team working in tandem to create something awe inspiring.