Our good friend Pat Younge, former head of The Travel Channel and now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC was our houseguest for the past two days.
Pat is always interesting, and he showed us the clip above from Stargate Studios.
Being in the business, of course, we are always aware of green screens and digital effects, but frankly, I was astonished watching the relel as to how advanced and how all pervasive the technology has become.
As we spend more and more time watching screens (8.5 hours a day and climbing) and more and more of our onscreen images are both video and apparently artificially created video, are we in fact heading for a world in which, in the end, nothing will be real?
It’s a point to ponder as several technological trends play out and start to converge.
What, in fact, is real?
Or more worrisome – does it matter?
3 Comments
Zack July 30, 2010
The ability to create realistic scenes is going to allow for more expansion in historical pieces as well – did you see what they did for John Adams? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRX7o0DZc34
Austin Beeman July 29, 2010
We’re moving towards a world where those with the money and the skill to produce stuff like that will control how EVERYBODY ELSE views reality. Who needs to be put into ‘the matrix’ when 8.5 hours per day can be shaped perfectly! Incredible and scary.
Eric Blumer July 29, 2010
Very cool. Wow.