I love to watch behind the scenes, especially with the directorial genius that was involved in the making of this incredible, groundbreaking series. The first mainstream tv series to be made for Star Wars and we are privileged get to see inside it.
One sequence of shots really bothered me though when watching this. They parallel edited archive footage from the first film, shots my grandfather shot and lit. They picked apart so many of these original shots in detail, around the directors table and the individual directors Taika Waititi (whose incredible) discussed my grandfathers work and attention to detail, and then they even showed a photograph of Lucas behind his camera.
Was Gilbert Taylor mentioned once? In an episode talking about the importance of not deviating to far from the original shots, and the importance of the old artwork influencing the new.
They even mentioned the Dam Busters as an influence for certain shots and put Lucas's name solely to that. I feel that to have whole episodes discussing the original shots being such an influence on the new ones, and to rightfully mention the names of the people who made the models, but to not mention his name makes me feel that they chose to intentionally leave out my grandfather's name?
They even discussed keeping shots as clear as possible for the CGI, because there are just some shots just that can't be sorted in post. His notes are all over this, and all it takes is a small mention to put credit where it was due. I acknowledge that there is a lot of people whose names haven't been mentioned, but to edit it in this way, to make it look like it was all his work and no one else's left a little bit of a bad taste, whether intentional or not. I have a lot of respect for George Lucas and everything that he has created, and I know he didn't edit this, but if I had filmed them and watched this I would feel incredibly shortchanged.
Just sayin...
One sequence of shots really bothered me though when watching this. They parallel edited archive footage from the first film, shots my grandfather shot and lit. They picked apart so many of these original shots in detail, around the directors table and the individual directors Taika Waititi (whose incredible) discussed my grandfathers work and attention to detail, and then they even showed a photograph of Lucas behind his camera.
Was Gilbert Taylor mentioned once? In an episode talking about the importance of not deviating to far from the original shots, and the importance of the old artwork influencing the new.
They even mentioned the Dam Busters as an influence for certain shots and put Lucas's name solely to that. I feel that to have whole episodes discussing the original shots being such an influence on the new ones, and to rightfully mention the names of the people who made the models, but to not mention his name makes me feel that they chose to intentionally leave out my grandfather's name?
They even discussed keeping shots as clear as possible for the CGI, because there are just some shots just that can't be sorted in post. His notes are all over this, and all it takes is a small mention to put credit where it was due. I acknowledge that there is a lot of people whose names haven't been mentioned, but to edit it in this way, to make it look like it was all his work and no one else's left a little bit of a bad taste, whether intentional or not. I have a lot of respect for George Lucas and everything that he has created, and I know he didn't edit this, but if I had filmed them and watched this I would feel incredibly shortchanged.
Just sayin...