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EXODUS Trailer Shot on Dragon

From everything I've seen, Exodus looks very 'sharpened'.
 
I noticed that the first trailers for "Exodus" and "The Hobbit 3" were over-sharpened for some reason. I'm sure that the final product won't be, though Scott and Company 3 seem to like sharpening parts of the frame for dramatic effect, even back on their film D.I.'s. But I doubt that they plan on sharpening the entire movie like the trailers look -- perhaps the trailer department was working from HD copies.
 
Yeah, I honestly took the over-sharpened high-shutter look as a style choice. I'm sure it will look great either way.
 
It looks rather too video like to me because the saturation and contrast are too high and there is no grain etc.
 
That this is finished in a 2K DI is a shame. Such a film needs a 4K DI, sfx and all. I guess the sfx costs prevented this, but why not master all non sfx shots in 4K and upscale the sfx shots from 2.5K or 3K at least?
 
No reason not to master the non sfx shots and the simple sfx shots in 4K and the rest in affordable k (3K, 2.5K...) plus upsampling. Sony did it for Spiderman films years ago.
 
Michel Hafner said:
No reason not to master the non sfx shots and the simple sfx shots in 4K and the rest in affordable k (3K, 2.5K...) plus upsampling. Sony did it for Spiderman films years ago.
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This. I've seen 3K effect plates blending just fine with 4K master source.
 
Michel Hafner said:
No reason not to master the non sfx shots and the simple sfx shots in 4K and the rest in affordable k (3K, 2.5K...) plus upsampling. Sony did it for Spiderman films years ago.
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Well, I would guess that would mean that about 10% of the picture would actually be 4K (if that much).

In movies like this, at least 80-90% of the shots in the finished piece are touched by VFX (by the way, it's not "sfx" - that would be either sound effects or special effects, which are practical effects created during production) in one way or another, whether those VFX are obvious or not. The VFX shot counts on these kind of pictures are astronomical, numbering in the thousands.
 
How many of these vfx shots are actually the kind that does not take <= 4 times more time/ressources but exponentially more time than a 2K version?
 
Saw latest Exodus trailer in theatre tonight. At a screening of Gone Girl. The Exodus trailer was easily the best looking trailer of the night, w/out question. The sharpness, the resolution, the "format" just felt completely new and different. At a 2k projection, the Exodus preview felt like Imax, the quality difference was so high.

I was speechless. Especially because I wasn't a huge fan of an earlier Exodus tease I'd seen online. But in the theatre? This new trailer? I was mesmerized. It's the first time I've SEEN what 6K translates to on the BIG SCREEN. WOW.

Gone Girl was a great movie. For sure.

But now I'm holding my breath for Exodus.
 
Went to see Interstellar in IMAX a few days ago. Exodus, and The Hobbit trailers were screened before Interstellar - they looked so good, something new, and different, as Nick stated above.

It was pretty crazy, all I could think about for almost the entire film (mostly 65mm, projected in IMAX), is how soft it looked compared to the Dragon footage - I mean, kind of bad comparatively speaking.
 
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