Rosco Spectrum: The film Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to the 2015 feature Fifty Shades of Grey and adaptation of the hit novel by E.L. James, was shot in Vancouver – even though the action of the story takes place in Seattle. The filmmakers installed Rosco SoftDrop inside their North Shore Studios sound stage to create the Seattle skyline outside the windows of their set.
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I hate fifty shades of grey as I’m sure a large portion of the population agrees. It ia literally just published twilight fanfiction, but I can no longer say I hate everything about fifty shades of grey. I hate everything except for the Rosco skydrop and the lighting used in combination with it. Other than that I’m pretty sure Fifty Shades Darker defies physics and is even worse than Fifty Shades of Grey. At least someone other than the money grabbers sponsoring this atrocity will benefit, I’m sure the publicity of being on set and production designer Nelson Coates saying, “The range and tonality of image reproduction, combined with the high-quality fabrication and ease of handling during prep & production, have made Rosco’s SoftDrop an invaluable tool in my design arsenal!” will really help the SoftDrop sell. And eventually it might even be used in a movie that will win an award or at least come from a book with interesting content.
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First, a quick little rant about Fifty Shades of Grey as a film overall. I do not think it is qualified to stand in the spot of America's “valentine's day event film.”That alone saddens me. It has nothing to do with BDSM practices, but just how they are represented. That being said, I feel like the characters are dangerous, hurtful role models for young people who are still defining what any sort of relationship ought to look like. That being said, I am quite disgusted by this film. Their choice of company to sponsor their skyline could not mean less to me. This point being established, I feel like the article could have been saved if it wasn't just an endorsement for Rosco. Unlike some of the other practical articles on the blog, I feel like we were lacking the “this is how the technology works, and it's great” portion of the article. Another question I have, is why didn’t the team just film the play in the books setting? What was the benefit of shooting somewhere else and adding a backdrop, other than being able to say they used fancy technology? The whole thing thing just seemed like a promotion for both Fifty Shades of Grey and Rosco, all endorsed by the production designer.
Contrary to Tahirah I absolutely love the 50 Shades of Grey franchise, I actually went to the second movie last night and it was so much fun! There is nothing wrong with going to a bad movie with a bunch of people in the theater who are also there to just have a good time and laugh. It was a blast, and one of the best things I've done this semester, no regrets at all. Having just seen the movie I remember the skyline pretty well and I was pretty impressed with how realistic it was, and how beautiful they made it look. There is a little bit of an advertisie feel in this article and I can't decide whether it is bad writing or a weird way to promote your film. Either way I think this second 50 Shades was much better than the first one, the production quality was better, the design was better, the acting was still bad but thats part of the experience, and I hope the movie does well. It's a fun franchise and I think that it is interesting the way that they used the technology displayed in the article. Looking forward to number three!
Seattle is interesting because when I think of Seattle I think of Grey. For all I know that could be a part of the reason the book/movie is set there, but that’s what I thought this article was going to be about when I read the headline. It turned out to be about the movie which required a whole lot of gray at a quality which made modern audiences happy but keeping — what appears to be — a greyscale. That being said, they discuss how good the backdrop looks, so maybe it is in full color and they just used the rosco technology to make the backdrop look more real and give it a gray tint. No matter what it looks really really cool and rosco strikes again with a great and quality product in yet another part of theatre, continuing to take over the industry along with like rose brand.
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