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LOST Series and Finale Brilliant!

Randall, Emyr, exactly. There's so many loose ends, the plot looks like Danielle Rousseau's hair.

- What was the deal with Aaron? He didn't have any effect on anything.
- Also, Walt? He had those powers, and now nothing?
- What was the light? Something inside all of us? That tells me nothing.
- Why did getting thrown down into the light turn the man in black into a smoke monster?
- Why didn't they give the man in black a freaking name?
- Why didn't the candidates (or at least, Desmond) get turned into a smoke monster when they went down there?
- How did Desmond magically know what to do when he got down there?
- How was there a stone plug keeping the light in (or out or whatever)?
- Why was the island all electromagnetic?
- What on earth was the Dharma Initiative doing there? There didn't seem to be any way of profiting off the light. And there didn't seem to be anyone that knew anything about it in the first place.

I can't even ask any more questions. It doesn't even matter. The whole thing's a giant hodge podge. It's like they just threw a bunch of mysterious and cool stuff together and didn't bother to explain any of it, and then ended it with some swelly music to get you all verklempt and forget that they didn't explain anything.

Epic fail.

Contrast that to the ending of Twin Peaks, where I was like, wtf? And then I thought about it a bit, and holy crap, that was tight. But after Lost I was like, wtf? and now I'm like, WTF?

PS- I hope it goes without saying, Shawn and everyone else who worked on it, besides the retarded plot, OMFG, amazing job. The acting, editing, cinematography, everything was just top-notch.

PPS- Shawn, good luck with the Hawaii 5-0 gig! So cool.
 
Why is this in CINEMATOGRAPHY and not OFF TOPIC?

So far, no one is really touching on the cinematography of the show... (Does anyone realize how difficult it is to keep lighting consistent in Hawai'i? It changes every moment, all the time... No one works harder than the guys of the lighting and grip depts from LOST.)


(Thx for the 5-0 well wishes)
 
Incredible finale, cheers to the cast and crew...a friend of mine was the 1st AC for 3 seasons and as you can imagine it was not an easy job delivering this beast. Hugo (Jorge Garcia) once said in an interview that it would not be LOST if they did not keep some things close to the chest. I felt the finale left us with enough lore and mystery to keep the mythology alive. Bravo.
 
Best show I've ever watched and that finale still has me thinking....I keep watching the last 15 minutes...beautifully done..and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the music and the pacing of those last 15 minutes...my god that was just beautiful to me at least.
 
Shawn Booth said:
Why is this in CINEMATOGRAPHY and not OFF TOPIC?
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Ha, I was wondering the same thing.

Yeah, how DID you keep the lighting consistent? I noticed I think one time in the whole series, a two-person conversation where one person was in high contrast (like with bright sun), and the other was low contrast (like the sun had gone behind a cloud). I noticed on the new Affleck movie they had a crane suspend a giant silk over the actors to diffuse the sun, but I imagine that wasn't at all feasible in some locations in the mountains/jungle. Constant metering? Bumping in post? Could you ever afford to spend any time waiting for the sun to do something you want it to?
 
The cinematography in "Lost" was amazing. I've been watching it in HD on Netflicks and its crazy sharp. That Panavision glass has a great look to it, plus all those different environments in the show. The jungle, the hatch, Darmaville they all looked really good. I could only imagine how tough it was to shoot a lot of those jungle scenes.
 
joshua csehak said:
Ha, I was wondering the same thing.

Yeah, how DID you keep the lighting consistent? I noticed I think one time in the whole series, a two-person conversation where one person was in high contrast (like with bright sun), and the other was low contrast (like the sun had gone behind a cloud). I noticed on the new Affleck movie they had a crane suspend a giant silk over the actors to diffuse the sun, but I imagine that wasn't at all feasible in some locations in the mountains/jungle. Constant metering? Bumping in post? Could you ever afford to spend any time waiting for the sun to do something you want it to?
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Not me, I'm not one of the DPs on the show.

But yes, they constantly meter. And yes, sometimes we waited for the sun to pop out and sometimes we waited for it to go away... Even if it took a couple of hours...
 
Shawn, you were right about BSG. That show is kickass. I just watched the miniseries and now I'm hooked. I can't wait to get the next disk. I guess I'll just pass the time up in Yosemite shooting timelapse with Tom.
 
I wasn't a big fan of the looks in los angeles. I think they got better but starting off they were shooting in a lot of very bland looking locations with similar lighting. Felt a little soap operaish for a bit.
 
Shawn Booth said:
Not me, I'm not one of the DPs on the show.

But yes, they constantly meter. And yes, sometimes we waited for the sun to pop out and sometimes we waited for it to go away... Even if it took a couple of hours...
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It still took a lot of time and effort during final color grading to get it consistent. And I speak from experience on that.
 
joshua csehak said:
Randall, Emyr, exactly. There's so many loose ends, the plot looks like Danielle Rousseau's hair.
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I agree completely. Watch this very funny video recounting about a hundred plot threads that were never resolved:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291

I worked on the show on and off for four years (in post), and always thought that technically, it was one of the best TV shows ever -- due largely to DP John Bartley's expert work. Amazing cinematography, all done under extremely difficult circumstances (typical Hawaii weather). I bet it might prove to be the last great 35mm 3-perf negative show, since pretty much all the new shows are digital. (And the sound mix and editing were top-notch as well.)

Lost was very, very difficult in terms of exposure range because of the number of low-exposure night scenes lit with torches. Getting all of that down in dailies took an exceptional amount of work, and my hat's off to the various post crews who did that over the years (particularly Peter Ritter at Technicolor). I did the final on about a dozen different episodes, and having great dailies made my job much easier.
 
michael zaletel said:
I'd just like to call a standing ovation for the producers, writers, cast and crew of the Series LOST which celebrated its finale last night.

Superb storytelling, impeccable directing, magnificent acting, beautiful visuals, realistic vfx, flawless production & location mgmt, incredible timing and a tremendous respect for the audience.

Bravo!

-michael zaletel
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How LOST- SHOULD HAVE ENDED :thumbsup:

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With so many people obsessing over every image from Lost and trying to find answers to questions. And the producers that surly know how important the last images is to a conclusion to a story, they would take great care what those images should be. And they did!

But then we have the people in the network ABC, that has other more (to them) "important issues" to consider. Issues much more important than how a six seasons TV series like Lost ends; How to decompress the audience of the series final before the next "very important program" The News. :banghead:

The prize goes to ABC for care, consideration and sensitivity to the 'LOST' producers, writers, crew, actors and audience. :emote_whack:

Here's the story;

by Mike Bruno
Categories: HeadScratcher, Lost, Television

[SPOILER ALERT] So, raise your hand if you’ve spent the past three days obsessing over what was purgatory, what was real-life, for the past six years on Lost. No doubt, for many of you, a big part of your understanding has included an interpretation of the series’ final scenes of plane wreckage strewn across an empty beach, nothing but the white noise of crashing waves cutting through the deadly silence.

Well, turns out ABC just threw those final scenes in there as a “visual aid,” and they didn’t actually have anything to do with the show’s plot. ABC told the LA Times that the network – and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse — added those shots of the beach simply to soften the transition from the emotional ending of the series finale to the 11 p.m. news and didn’t realize that viewers who had been obsessing over every detail of every scene of every episode might have considered the series’ final images as having some meaning.

“”The images shown during the end credits of the Lost finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news,” an ABC spokesperson told the Times.

I, for one, initially interpreted those images as a sign that everyone died in the crash, which meant everything in the entire series was some kind of purgatory. When I suggested this in EW’s live, post-finale chat, there certainly those who said no, the Island was real but the Sideways World was purgatory. But it was also clear that I was far from the only one who, in trying to figure out just why the show ended with those images and how they fit into the story, came away with that assumption. I’m glad ABC cleared it up, so in my post-show reflection/depression I can just remove those images from the equation entirely. But still, Lost is hard enough to piece together and fully grasp. Kind of a weird move to end the entire saga with incidental footage.

Who else thought those final scenes were part of the story?

From; http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/26/lost-final-scenes-wreckage/
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After episode one, I turned to my wife and said, "They're dead. Any money you like, they're in purgatory."

After reading an interview with JJ Abrams in which he categorically denied they were in purgatory, my wife has for the last six years reminded me that I was wrong and that we were in for a BIG surprise. I never believed him or her, what else was he going to say? "Yeah, you right, it's the Sixth Sense in Hawaii..."

Unlike many fans (and quite a few of the cast) I didn't expect any new revelations in the finale or a big twist, but I was disappointed by the substandard writing/acting/cinematography. It fell way below the very high standard they set for the show. Shame, a great series like Lost deserved better.
 
I agree that the ending was not great, but they were not in purgatory for the entire series. Only this past season's "sideways" storyline, showing a world in which the cast members never crashed, was purgatory. They're reunited in a church in the final shot and all "go into the light", then we flash back to the Island and find out Jack's fate.

All this will be explained in the Lost Encyclopedia, a $45 book due out in August that purports to have all the answers not given to us in the past season. Me, I'd like to see a book on the making of the show, particularly on the work of DP John Bartley.
 
Tom Bennett said:
There's really a lot of opposite feedbacks with LOST's finale episode. But even how others may be disappointed (mostly with the storyline), I think with the overall impact of the TV series and with the cinematography, it is still a superb work!
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Yes.
 
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