tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post3609947080700202866..comments2024-03-22T19:07:21.790+00:00Comments on The Wertzone: How Fox has screwed up BUFFY in HD (but can fix it)Adam Whiteheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-6997265795961959742022-12-30T15:39:23.829+00:002022-12-30T15:39:23.829+00:00Thank you for this! So frustrating.Thank you for this! So frustrating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-28876339783670299232015-03-22T10:16:47.049+00:002015-03-22T10:16:47.049+00:00Hi, thanks for your support :).
Below are the las...Hi, thanks for your support :).<br /><br />Below are the last reactions of three members of the original team:<br /><br />Mark Metcalf (The Master) on his Facebook Page: "I probably should know more about this before I open my big mouth but from the little I do know Fox has made a mess of remastering the great work of Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar and all the other actors, directors and technicians who worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show and the work were important to me at the time and there are fans throughout the world that still get inspiration from the little girl with the big wooden stake and her struggle for justice and a simple dinner date in a nice black dress. This is worth a look."<br /><br />Aaron Miller by private message: "I was the post coordinator for Season 5 and we actually made a list of 16X9 fixes for every show that would need to be done when the show was remastered for HD. [Fox] definitely did not contact me at any time."<br /><br />Aaron Miller: "Here's a comment from my post supervisor/AP that I worked with on Buffy. He was a post PA on Season 1 and moved up to AP by Season 6. He and I both went to work on Firefly so we did not do Season 7:<br /><br />[Brian Wankum:] Thanks for asking! I am a little torn. The true purists should only ever watch the 4:3 standard def original release versions (exception being the "Once More With Feeling" which was intended to be shown widescreen). Not only is the framing as was originally intended, but i suspect that there will be lots of details in sets, props, costumes and makeup that might not hold up in HD.<br /><br />That's for the purists. BUT... Right or wrong there is a large population of average Joes who just want the picture to fill their frame. The same group who 15 years ago would have preferred the center cut to the black bars on top and bottom. Would be a shame for a whole new generation to miss out just because they (or their local TV station which is more likely) got turned off by black side bars. I agree that if it must be done there's a better way to do it. Season 1 was 16mm 4X3 so there is no way to make it 16:9 without blowing up the image. One of the things that bugs me the most about the ones I have seen is that top of show credits appear over peoples faces. We always had a rule to keep credits below the chin in closeups. Starting with season 2 we shot 35mm composed for 4X3 but protecting for 16X9. After we delivered the 4:3 air master I would sit down and watch the 16:9 version and take notes and do blowups and repos where necessary to avoid crew, equipment and ends of sets in shots. We called these the "16X9 safe masters" and archived them with everything else. I thought these were pretty cool to watch, the problem is when they went back to negative for the HD rexfer in this latest release it looks like they did not consult the original for either color timing or re-framing reference. I'm sure the stories and characters will hold up but it's too bad more care was not taken. Nobody asked me, but if they did I would have loved to have consulted on this. Probably could have organized a crowdsourcing effort of comparing the originals to the re-transfers. Lots of crew alumni with lots of love for the originals would have likely participated. Maybe for the 4K/3D version?"<br /><br />He probably meant they started shooting 35mm with season 3. Season 2 was (super) 16mm.<br /><br />Note that the video was also shared by Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), James C. Leary (Clem), David Fury, Tim Minear (producer, writer and director on "Angel" the TV show) and Nancy Holder (writer).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08211015639701421442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-28722780378772028062015-03-10T08:24:13.329+00:002015-03-10T08:24:13.329+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.HM Crawfordhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UDV0K2Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-163156890839615552015-03-09T19:37:33.450+00:002015-03-09T19:37:33.450+00:00BUFFY Seasons 4-7 are in widescreen on the Europea...BUFFY Seasons 4-7 are in widescreen on the European DVDs, not the American ones. Apparently Whedon was unhappy with the decision and there are some errors detectable in the DVDs, but not that many. Most of the problems are in S1-3, which is why those were released in 4:3.<br /><br />ANGEL started a bit later and I believe was protected for widescreen almost throughout, so it shouldn't have anything like the same problems as BUFFY on that score. It's unclear at the moment if they are going to be applying the same remastering job to ANGEL once they're done with BUFFY.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-87729758852812881782015-03-09T13:13:23.786+00:002015-03-09T13:13:23.786+00:00Just watched that video. And you know, some things...Just watched that video. And you know, some things I could potentially forgive, like odd rations and weird close-ups, because if I hadn't seen the original, I might think that was how it was intended, the specific style in which it was intended to air.<br /><br />But the special effects problems and the lack of filters and holy crap, freaking crew appearing in the shot?! That's the sign of a bad job. Just plain bad. If I was watching Buffy for the first time and using the HD version as my baseline, I'd probably end up with this weird impression that there was a great premise but that few people but the actors knew what the hell they were doing with this whole, "I want this seen on a TV" thing. -_-Bibliotropichttp://www.bibliotropic.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-81601283016406767082015-03-08T22:27:01.191+00:002015-03-08T22:27:01.191+00:00You know, I'm pretty sure some of my Buffy DVD...You know, I'm pretty sure some of my Buffy DVDs, like seasons 4+, are in widescreen. And I think all of Angel.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748150030311108936noreply@blogger.com