Holorama... amazing

Unfortunately I've spent many hours looking at how special effects are made in/for films. On a lot of DVD's included in the Extra's there are often detailed explanations how scenes are built to make them seem real.
One that sticks in my mind is from the vampire film Suck, to get the look of water at night a large sheet of plastics was laid on the floor. The camera was set to take individual frames, the plastic sheet was moved a fraction after every second frame. For the twenty or thirty seconds it appeared in the film it took a day to film.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
Unfortunately I've spent many hours looking at how special effects are made in/for films. On a lot of DVD's included in the Extra's there are often detailed explanations how scenes are built to make them seem real.
One that sticks in my mind is from the vampire film Suck, to get the look of water at night a large sheet of plastics was laid on the floor. The camera was set to take individual frames, the plastic sheet was moved a fraction after every second frame. For the twenty or thirty seconds it appeared in the film it took a day to film.
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And why exactly is that unfortunate?
 
JCoatsworth,
I didn't think much of the Holorama video from Mr. Pole. I could have said it was so so, that I wasn't impressed by it. But I didn't, I chose to use a different approach, so I used the word unfortunately and gave my reasons.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
JCoatsworth,
I didn't think much of the Holorama video from Mr. Pole. I could have said it was so so, that I wasn't impressed by it. But I didn't, I chose to use a different approach, so I used the word unfortunately and gave my reasons.
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But I don't get why. I know as well how special effects are made. I've watched the making of Jurassic Park a good dozen times, and I still find this impressive. This isn't putting special effects in a movie. This is taking things out of movies and in real environments. As far as I can tell, this is something completely different.
 
JCoatsworth,
Take the film Contact when they put footage of an ex- President and put that it the film.
I see what you mean but the chances are its been done in some film or other.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
JCoatsworth,
Take the film Contact when they put footage of an ex- President and put that it the film.
I see what you mean but the chances are its been done in some film or other.
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Can you elaborate?
 
JCoatsworth,
can you elaborate, what don't you understand, specifically.
 
You know I meant the holorama thing.
What does the editing of footage in Contact have to do with it?
 
No, I didn't know you meant the Holorama thing. How would I know?

In Holorama they took an image from one place and put it in another place, and in the film Contact they took what the ex president had done and put it in another place.
In both situations it was editing of footage that produced the finished product.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
No, I didn't know you meant the Holorama thing. How would I know?
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Because it's the topic, obviously...

In Holorama they took an image from one place and put it in another place, and in the film Contact they took what the ex president had done and put it in another place.
In both situations it was editing of footage that produced the finished product.
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In holorama, they took something out of a movie and put it in a real three dimensional miniature environment. It looks as though the characters came out of the screen and into our world. If that doesn't impress you, that's completely fine. But it's not just simple editing of footage like in Contact, and neither is it the same as putting visual effects in a movie.

Anyway, I wasn't intending to start this discussion when I asked that question, so back to the initial issue: How does knowledge of special effects in movies take away from this holorama? I'm genuinely interested in your opinion, because, as I have already mentioned many times, I see almost no connection.
 
Where in Holorama are holograms? You said there was, then you said that holograms is what the thread is about, you then state you meant to say holorama and think I should have known that.
I didn't.

In Holorama they took something out of a real movie and put it in a real three dimensional miniature environment. I didn't know it was 3D it wasn't written, it wasn't said and not having a 3D capable computer monitor I had no way of knowing that. Regardless of that what appeared in Holorama takes places in a lot of films.
What real movie was it taken out of as that sort of thing usually involves big money transactions.

How does knowledge of special effects in movies take away from Holorama?
Then you add, "I'm genuinely interested in your opinion, because as I have already mentioned many times, I see no connection."
The knowledge I have of how films are made does not take anything away from Holorama, but as I've seen that sort of thing so many times before I don't view Holorama as a ground breaking video.

Did you see the film Independence Day? When the Aliens blew up the city and the street scenes? That involved making footage of a person/ people in cars etc: transposing that footage with the miniature sequences to create an end product. A simple concept that may have taken months to do the computer programming and edit but the required concept was quite simple.
 
Sorry, I guess we're clearly talking past each other. There's no name calling or anything, all friendly. Just a misunderstanding.
All I wanted to know is why exactly @ILLYRIAN wasn't at all impressed by this cool little thing they built.
 
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