Post by StarFuryG7 on Mar 31, 2012 18:16:33 GMT -5
I've been thinking about this since the beginning of this season, and it's begun to bother me even more over the last several episodes.
We know there's a budget issue with this show being that it's a STARZ production, and given also where they've decided to shoot it--New Zealand, in order to also save money. So in my opinion, in order to make this show look more epic[/b] in its next season, they must also use CGI to increase the number of gladiators and Romans so that both armies look significantly larger than they have up to now. The special effects team that worked on "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"[/b] twenty years ago made it a regular practice of doing exactly that in their episodes so they appeared to be shot on a much grander scale than they were in actuality. It saved them a lot of money and did make the stories appear to be shot on a much larger scale than they were in reality. And if anything that technology has not only gotten better and easier to work with over the last two decades, but it must be a hell of a lot cheaper now than it was then also. Mainly this technique could be used modestly for the sake of establishing shots. They can also make some limited use of it during major battle sequences, such as those we saw over the last two episodes of this season.
And if they don't do it, they are foolish. By the time Spartacus and his army are defeated and crucified along the roads of Rome, they numbered about six thousand I believe, and if the producers are really interested in honoring the historical nature of their storyline as they claim, they would be wise to use this technique where necessary from this point on.
We know there's a budget issue with this show being that it's a STARZ production, and given also where they've decided to shoot it--New Zealand, in order to also save money. So in my opinion, in order to make this show look more epic[/b] in its next season, they must also use CGI to increase the number of gladiators and Romans so that both armies look significantly larger than they have up to now. The special effects team that worked on "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"[/b] twenty years ago made it a regular practice of doing exactly that in their episodes so they appeared to be shot on a much grander scale than they were in actuality. It saved them a lot of money and did make the stories appear to be shot on a much larger scale than they were in reality. And if anything that technology has not only gotten better and easier to work with over the last two decades, but it must be a hell of a lot cheaper now than it was then also. Mainly this technique could be used modestly for the sake of establishing shots. They can also make some limited use of it during major battle sequences, such as those we saw over the last two episodes of this season.
And if they don't do it, they are foolish. By the time Spartacus and his army are defeated and crucified along the roads of Rome, they numbered about six thousand I believe, and if the producers are really interested in honoring the historical nature of their storyline as they claim, they would be wise to use this technique where necessary from this point on.