Pinewood Studios Field Trip

Pinewood Studios in Toronto

The other day the Media Fundamentals students got to go on a field trip to Pinewood Studios and the Advanced Film & Television studios in Toronto. Both were pretty cool experiences and both fairly different.

At the AF&T studios I got to see for the first time a studio set, since all the sets I've ever been on were on location. The atmosphere isn't much different based on people act just you're in a closed space and it is a lot more quiet. I've never necessarily enjoyed the look of studio settings in movies all the time because they tend to look unnatural to me. When you watch it you can tell half the time "hey that's shot in a studio." The lighting just looks off to me but that's just my taste.

At Pinewood Studios we didn't get to see inside any of the big sound stages unfortunately (which sucks cause the remake of Robocop is currently being filmed there). We did however get a cool 3D presentation of a video featuring James Cameron. It showed the difference between the different frame rates of 24, 48, and 60 frames per second. I never got to anything like it before and I thought it was absolutely incredible! It actually looks like the people on screen could be standing right in front of you! 60fps is the speed the eye catches images so the video was mirroring real life which to me looked amazing! I know the Hobbit is getting some negative reviews about it right now but I hope that opinion changes overtime because it is definitely the future of movies.

Can't wait to wherever our new field trip takes us. Here's a cool slow motion example of what high frame rates can do! High frame rate Slow Motion