We didn’t do a post on it but you no doubt saw the concerns from multiple sources (here’s the BBC’s report) about the new way in which he’s shooting the two Hobbit movies – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The conventional industry standard for shooting movies is 24 frames per second but The Hobbit is being shot in 48 frames per second to give it a more ‘real’ feel.
Problems have come this week at CinemaCon which has been taking place in Las Vegas where Warner Bros. showed a montage with 10 minutes of footage. Comments came back saying that the footage looked like a shot for TV movie low budget movie which I’m sure had WB and maybe even Director Peter Jackson a little bit worried.
Saying that, Jackson has now responded to the comments via Entertainment Weekly who tells us that like any new technology, it’s going to take people to get used to and that it’ll ‘keep evolving’.
“At first it’s unusual because you’ve never seen a movie like this before. It’s literally a new experience, but you know, that doesn’t last the entire experience of the film; not by any stretch, after 10 minutes or so,” said Jackson. “That’s a different experience than if you see a fast-cutting montage at a technical presentation.”
“A couple of the more negative commenters from CinemaCon said that in the Gollum and Bilbo scene [which took place later in the presentation] they didn’t mind it and got used to that,” the director added. “That was the same 48 frames the rest of the reel was. I just wonder if it they were getting into the dialogue, the characters and the story. That’s what happens in the movie. You settle into it.”
I’m pleased to see that Jackson has taken these comments on board and I’m really excited to see these 10 minutes of footage so that I can make my own mind up but we won’t really know anything until we see the first movie when it’s released in December 14th.
If you’ve forgotten what to expect, have a watch of the trailer below.
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