“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.” Christopher Nolan is undoubtedly one of the best directors in Hollywood, and he set fire to the film world with his groundbreaking film Interstellar. From its jaw dropping visual effects shown with elegant cinematography to a goosebump inducing score, Interstellar became an instant classic.
Visuals are a very important to movies nowadays. But most of these impressive visuals are going towards creating and bringing to life fictional worlds. So it is a rarity to see that visuals are used to something that is both visually stunning and scientifically accurate. One of the producers of the movie, Kip Thorne, also happens to be a physicist. Kip Thorne explains in his book The Science of Interstellar that everything shown in Interstellar is accurate and can be proven using a complex string of equations. Meaning if you took an Imax camera out into space and took a video of a black hole, you will see exactly what is portrayed in the movie. The graphics in the movie are so intensive that some individual frames …show more content…
First off, studio shooting is by far the easiest way to shoot. The actors stand in a controlled environment or in front of a screen and the visual effects team takes it from there. Possibility of injuries on set go down drastically because green screen studios are padded and everything is monitored to ensure a smooth shoot. However, step outside onto the real set and mother nature will have her way. In fact, in an interview with the cast of the movie Anne Hathaway revealed that she almost got hypothermia while shooting the “Miller’s Planet” scene in Blue Lagoon Iceland. Her 90 lb space suit ended up having a leakage and the freezing water seeped into her suit slowly restricting her ability to move due to the drop in body
Visuals are a very important to movies nowadays. But most of these impressive visuals are going towards creating and bringing to life fictional worlds. So it is a rarity to see that visuals are used to something that is both visually stunning and scientifically accurate. One of the producers of the movie, Kip Thorne, also happens to be a physicist. Kip Thorne explains in his book The Science of Interstellar that everything shown in Interstellar is accurate and can be proven using a complex string of equations. Meaning if you took an Imax camera out into space and took a video of a black hole, you will see exactly what is portrayed in the movie. The graphics in the movie are so intensive that some individual frames …show more content…
First off, studio shooting is by far the easiest way to shoot. The actors stand in a controlled environment or in front of a screen and the visual effects team takes it from there. Possibility of injuries on set go down drastically because green screen studios are padded and everything is monitored to ensure a smooth shoot. However, step outside onto the real set and mother nature will have her way. In fact, in an interview with the cast of the movie Anne Hathaway revealed that she almost got hypothermia while shooting the “Miller’s Planet” scene in Blue Lagoon Iceland. Her 90 lb space suit ended up having a leakage and the freezing water seeped into her suit slowly restricting her ability to move due to the drop in body