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[Royal Dalton]

The MI6 set was absolutely awful in the last film. Which was particularly annoying because Tim Piggott-Smith's office looked great.

[Skudor]

Yeah. Perhaps if they change M, they could use the opportunity to introduce a more traditional office for him - even if it's an incongruous haven amongst the LCDs and 3D holograms etc.

[marktmurphy]

The MI6 set was absolutely awful in the last film. Which was particularly annoying because Tim Piggott-Smith's office looked great.

I quite liked it. The MI6 graphical style, since used in loads of Bond games, is very eye-catching and nicely designed.

[Matt_13]

I like the MK12 design as well. A very unique design. In any case, MI6 is going to be under attack so we may seen the new offices blown to smitherines and an old school office built in it's place.

[The Shark]

The MI6 set was absolutely awful in the last film. Which was particularly annoying because Tim Piggott-Smith's office looked great.

I quite liked it. The MI6 graphical style, since used in loads of Bond games, is very eye-catching and nicely designed.

It's not so much the graphics, but Gassner's MINORITY REPORT design of the buildings and corridors. Part of Forster's "the locations are characters" bollocks, no doubt.

The villains should have the weird futuristic architecture, not MI6.

[Skudor]

So much truth being uttered. I just hope someone in charge has seen the light.

[Matt_13]

MI6 posted on their main page that they think it's two meteorites entering the Earth's atmosphere........hmm....certainly an OTT, supervillain-esque concept...

[The Shark]

Gives a new meaning to "Skyfall."

[Matt_13]

Indeed.

[DominicGreene]

MI6 posted on their main page that they think it's two meteorites entering the Earth's atmosphere........hmm....certainly an OTT, supervillain-esque concept...

Sounds like the movie 2012 to me.

[Royal Dalton]

Well, we can see it's an MI6 video feed, and I'm pretty certain that's a satellite on the screen there. So, it could be them viewing a spy satellite recording of another satellite being destroyed by the villain, or something like that.

[The Shark]

Perhaps OPERATION SKYFALL is the retrieval of a MacGuffin from the satellite wreckage?

[Captain Tightpants]

Are the numbers IP addresses?

No, IP addresses have four separate numbers; these only have three.

I'm guessing they could be x-y-z co-ordinates. AICN reported a while ago that the plot revolves around a downed satellite, so if that is the case, then these number could refer to the satellite's latitude, longitude and altitude so that MI6 can predict where it will land.

That said, these are very tiny numbers. Even if the position of the camera in this shot is where the camera will be in the actual film, the numbers are going to barely be noticeable, so I don't think they have much significance.

[marktmurphy]

It's not so much the graphics, but Gassner's MINORITY REPORT design of the buildings and corridors. Part of Forster's "the locations are characters" bollocks, no doubt.

The villains should have the weird futuristic architecture, not MI6.

No, I don't get that. Despite Bond having all of his gadgets, there is a strange anti-modernist thing going on with 007, especially in the early days. Bond is shown as a traditionalist and the villains are always the forward-thinkers with the modernist designs and funky ways of doing things. Bond's all three-piece suits and wooden wall panelling. Hell, Fleming even named Goldfinger after a famous modernist architect whom he had a major beef with.

I think that's something that needs correcting: Bond himself shouldn't be stuck in the past, a champion for stuffiness. MI6 should have sexy new stuff.

[Shrublands]

Well not quite.

It means that they are using a telephoto lens. And it’s by far the narrowest lens they’ve shown us so far.
Explained simply: A 50mm is roughly what the human eye sees, every mm below that takes the image wider and wider. Every mm above takes it narrower, but closer onto an object from a distance.

I agree with that, although, 100mm is barely telephoto. It depends on what you are shooting. They aren't using "zoom" lens, so they must be shooting something that's probably a little bit away from them, but not too much that they would need anything more.

It’s what’s called a Medium Telephoto lens, they range between 85mm and 135mm.

[Matt_13]

So I guess my question is what sort of material is shot with a 100MM lens?

[The Shark]

I think that's something that needs correcting:

It's pretty much all but extinct, sadly. However, it's something that was always unique to Bond, what he represents - the longing for an "Older England" where the grass was always greener, and before the horrors of the modern world took their grip. You can find it in everything from Chaucer, to Shakespeare to Fleming.

I say bring it back. At least for the 50th anniversary.

MI6 should have sexy new stuff.

They can. But keep the oak panels, desks, books and so on. Otherwise it becomes as alienating as the villain's lair.

Keep Krest's "corrector" for stuff that actually needs fixing.

[Chief of SIS]

Now this is just a possible idea, but could it just be M's audio file? I merely say it because a wave representation such as that would not be absurd and the 4 bars in the bottom could represent audio levels.

Edited by Chief of SIS, 19 January 2012 - 11:50 PM.

[Captain Tightpants]

If that were the case, then what would everything else in the image be?

[Shrublands]

I think it looks as if it could be a modern display screen showing an old-fashioned digital record of something.
Computerised readouts from the 80s on a new video wall perhaps.

[Captain Tightpants]

I think it looks as if it could be a modern display screen showing an old-fashioned digital record of something.
Computerised readouts from the 80s on a new video wall perhaps.

Interesting idea. It would certainly tie into the idea of M's past being pivotal to the plot.

This is perhaps the msot ambiguous shot we've seen so far, simply because we can't really see anything that is happening in it. Most of the images on the screens are only partial to begin with.

[Matt_13]

I think it looks as if it could be a modern display screen showing an old-fashioned digital record of something.
Computerised readouts from the 80s on a new video wall perhaps.

I also thought they looked like old school schematics. Very neat image.

[sharpshooter]

We know nothing about the plot, but MI6's conclusion that it's two meteorites entering the atmosphere strikes me as...odd.

[univex]

We know nothing about the plot, but MI6's conclusion that it's two meteorites entering the atmospheres strikes me as...odd.

Exactly, odd. Can anyone else see those bloody meteorites besides Mi6? I sure can´t.

[Captain Tightpants]

I can, but only when they're pointed out to me.

[univex]

I can, but only when they're pointed out to me.

Like this?
http://en.rian.ru/im...5/168013501.jpg
Or maybe a spectometrer image of a meteorite entering orbit:
http://www.universet...ctic-meteor.jpg
Still doesn´t seem like meteorites to me.

Edited by univex, 20 January 2012 - 02:14 AM.

[MajorB]

I'm amazed that anyone noticed the streaks, much less put an interpretation on them. And that doesn't look at all like an image of the Earth, at least not to me. In fact, I'm hard-pressed to guess what any of those images are supposed to be.

[Matt_13]

I can, but only when they're pointed out to me.

Yeah basically. It's not the worst idea....but it's most likely not what we're looking at. I still think they're specs of an old spy satellite.

[univex]

I can, but only when they're pointed out to me.

Yeah basically. It's not the worst idea....but it's most likely not what we're looking at. I still think they're specs of an old spy satellite.

Looks like Sputnik
But can be just some light tricks going on like in that sniper scene.

[Captain Tightpants]

Still doesn´t seem like meteorites to me.

Oh, me neither. I'm just saying that once you've seen it, you'll always see it. The MI6 article draws attention to the left-hand side and something that could be a meteor. Once it was pointed out to me, all I could see was a meteor.

Anyway, I'm iffy on the idea of an extraplanetary body playing an important role in the plot. It reminds me of the original idea for A VIEW TO A KILL, which had Max Zorin re-directing Halley's Comet to hit Silicon Valley. This was possibly the worst idea ever.