amanset wrote:How does a set have to be set up differently so it can be recorded in HD?
The higher resolution means you can see all the things they cut corners with in SD. Like text on displays or newspapers. Hold up a newspaper in the middle distance on SD and you can't read the text. Therefore the text on the prop could be anything you liked. In HD a viewer could read it. The prop has to be more detailed as a result.
It's much more of a problem for Doctor Who too. Every week you're somewhere completely different. It pushes the set costs much higher than a US show for example. Stargate has the base, a forest, a sand pit, some wooden houses and the odd extra set. It's much cheaper.
Darkflame wrote:Has to be more detailed, and more attention paid to "goofs" in the props.
I'd argue it doesn't have to be anything. "Has to" implies that it won't work without it.
Sometimes people just won't accept what's true. I can't help that and if you don't want to listen to the explanations then don't. It doesn't make them any less true though.
In "My Name is Earl" they actualy hide silly stuff in the HD res on purpose.
A few times they have had messages you can only see on HD (and then, with a good eye).
Darkflame wrote:Has to be more detailed, and more attention paid to "goofs" in the props.
I'd argue it doesn't have to be anything. "Has to" implies that it won't work without it.
Sometimes people just won't accept what's true. I can't help that and if you don't want to listen to the explanations then don't. It doesn't make them any less true though.
Let's just say that I have a hard time imagining Dr Who actually trying to cover up goofs.
Tom Cruise is set to star in a special episode of hit British TV show 'Doctor Who'.
The 'Lions for Lambs' actor is among a host of top US stars, including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Madonna, who the BBC are hoping to get on board for three installments of the British sci-fi series to be filmed next year.
An insider told Britain's Daily Star newspaper, "BBC producers know they can't pay these stars what they are used to, but what they can offer is an exciting role in a real cutting-edge show. And the big stars love that kind of kudos."
'Doctor Who' already has a track record of attracting top stars for cameos. This year's Christmas special, 'Voyage of the Damned', will see Kylie Minogue play a waitress at the 1912 launch party for the famously doomed ocean liner Titanic, which sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
The three 'Doctor Who' specials will be shot in 2008, but will not hit screens until 2009.
The three episodes are rumored to be the final time actor David Tennant will play the time-travelling Doctor.
It is also believed 25-year-old actress Billie Piper - who quit the show in 2006 to pursue other projects - will return to play his sexy sidekick Rose Tyler.
At the very least, please let's not go back to the Piper-centered wank that was half the second series.
What pisses me off more about this is that they're shitting on their own canon again. I'm pretty sure they stated that there was absolutely no way for anyone to pass between the two dimensions again after she'd gone..I wish they'd have just a *little* consistency...
