How can O Brother Where Art Thou be the first film done on a digital intermediate?

LEWIS540 said:
You think a film, for example, with box office returns of 150m against a budget of 100m would equal a box office success.

You really don’t, snowflake.
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Sure do

I know more technicals like cameras, lenses, film stocks, digital cameras, and the technicals of filmmaking

Im not an accountant not into that shit, safespace
 
Drain Bamage said:
It was shot on film
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Well, it seems like your question has been answered. They digitally manipulated the tone/look of the film and may have been one of the first to do it. I don't know enough about the history to know if it was definitely the first film to do so or not.

As far as the Coen Bros shooting digitally, I must've got confused between O Brother and No Country For Old Men. I'm pretty sure they filmed that on a RED... but I could still be wrong.

<Fedor23>

All I know is that they're both fuckin incredible films and one of the major reasons why the Coen Bros are some of my favourite filmmakers of all time.
 
INTERL0PER said:
Well, it seems like your question has been answered. They digitally manipulated the tone/look of the film and may have been one of the first to do it. I don't know enough about the history to know if it was definitely the first film to do so or not.

As far as the Coen Bros shooting digitally, I must've got confused between O Brother and No Country For Old Men. I'm pretty sure they filmed that on a RED... but I could still be wrong.

<Fedor23>

All I know is that they're both fuckin incredible films and one of the major reasons why the Coen Bros are some of my favourite filmmakers of all time.
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Nah dude, No Country was film

The first and only thing so far they shot digital was Buster Scruggs
 
I dunno but it’s a great film either way. Very underrated imo
 
Drain Bamage said:
Nah dude, No Country was film

The first and only thing so far they shot digital was Buster Scruggs
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Fuck. I think that I'm getting it confused with them doing some sort of digital post production work, similar to O Brother. In fact, now that I think about it more, I think that's what it is. Something to do with digital editing suites and post production. I distinctly remember watching some video with them talking about the advantages of the new digital editing and colour grading software.

Or something.

I clearly don't know lol
 
lol at the people that gave you shit replies they guessed up.

The novel thing about O Brother was it was entirely done with a digital intermediate, beginning to end. previous films only used it for portions.
 
ocean size said:
lol at the people that gave you shit replies they guessed up.

The novel thing about O Brother was it was entirely done with a digital intermediate, beginning to end. previous films only used it for portions.
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For the theatrical run maybe.

But I guess they used DI's since 1997 on dvd's. Pretty sure they did full length DI's on the '97 Star Wars special editions too.
 
Drain Bamage said:
For the theatrical run maybe.

But I guess they used DI's since 1997 on dvd's. Pretty sure they did full length DI's on the '97 Star Wars special editions too.
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I'm trying to find a source but this is all I get - the way it is written it seems like beginning-to-end DI weren't used for the VHS, just the DVD after.
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/star-wars-a-new-hope-uhd

For the 1997 Special Edition release, the cut negative was scanned in 2K, new digital VFX were produced at sub-2K resolution, and a new film-out master interpositive element was created. This process was repeated in 2003-2004 by Lowry Digital, with a new 10-bit 2K scan done for the DVD release (complete with more digital VFX tweaks and a color grade supervised by Lucas), resulting in the creation of a 2K Digital Intermediate. This source was used again for the 2011 Blu-ray release, though with a bit more Lowry Digital remastering (and still more new digital VFX and color timing tweaks).

If I'm understanding correctly, generating the VHS from the interpositive means it wasn't a true DI. This appears to have been the case for the 2001 The Phantom Menace DVD and it wasn't until the later releases they were using a true digital intermediate.
 
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Jason X was also scanned from film onto a digital intermediate for mastering around the same time ('99/2000), I don't think either were the first in general, just the first for theatrical releases or larger budget releases in general to have a digital master. This is also barring films shot digitally like The Last Broadcast (which was the first film to be filmed, edited, and screened/released into theaters entirely digitally).
 
Plissken said:
Jason X was also scanned from film onto a digital intermediate for mastering around the same time ('99/2000), I don't think either were the first in general, just the first for theatrical releases or larger budget releases in general to have a digital master. This is also barring films shot digitally like The Last Broadcast (which was the first film to be filmed, edited, and screened/released into theaters entirely digitally).
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Jason X was 2001. The first film to be fully DI was low-budget Urbania in 2000 which I think was shot in 16mm to DI to 35 mm. I think Sorted was the first feature length 35 mm one in 2000 right before O Brother.

It's funny that these film production milestones happen in a mix of acclaimed movies and complete hot garbage like Super Mario Bros.
 
Drain Bamage said:
It has a pretty good repuation and wouldnt call it underrated
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Yes, amongst those of us who have seen it. Most people I know have never seen it. It’s very underrated in that sense.
 
TS: asks a boring question.
Sherdog: answers boring question.
TS: gets angry and uses articles from google to answer his own question.


<Lmaoo>
 
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You're thinking of Jaws (1948) which is why the shark looked so fake.
 
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