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#1321 Luigi Ferrari

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 01:58 AM


I think that what we see in the picture are the hi-speed lifts of The Shard London Bridge!
What do you think?


ooooooh, screams Bond to me that observatory. It´s gonna be ready by May this year right? Tallest bulding in western europe? London´s never gonna look the same again. It HAS to be in a Bond film. One surely hopes you´re right Luigi! Nice find! Someone give this man a Spy-trophy of some sorts!


Amazing building,indeed!
And, please, I don't want to hear that geo-location data show it was taken at Pinewood studios, because this is not a proof that the picture was taken at Pinewood. Would you expect them to reveal the real location where they are currently filming ?

This is the view from the Observatory, have a good time!
http://www.willpears...shard-360-dusk/

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 29 January 2012 - 02:02 AM.


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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:00 AM

ooooooh, screams Bond to me that observatory. It´s gonna be ready by May this year right? Tallest bulding in western europe? London´s never gonna look the same again. It HAS to be in a Bond film.

There's just one small problem: if it's in SKYFALL, then based on the clapperbaord shots, the Shard is probably going to be in Shanghai. The above shot, with board V63E would be followed by board V64BA, which is believed to be an office in Shanghai.

Although a thought did just occur to me: board 59A shows a martini bar, and is obviously very close to V63E - just four scenes later. Could 59A be a martini bar at the top of the Shard? I could see a scene playing out with Bond stopping for a drink before going down to infiltrate a substation of Chinese intelligence.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:28 AM


ooooooh, screams Bond to me that observatory. It´s gonna be ready by May this year right? Tallest bulding in western europe? London´s never gonna look the same again. It HAS to be in a Bond film.

There's just one small problem: if it's in SKYFALL, then based on the clapperbaord shots, the Shard is probably going to be in Shanghai. The above shot, with board V63E would be followed by board V64BA, which is believed to be an office in Shanghai.

Although a thought did just occur to me: board 59A shows a martini bar, and is obviously very close to V63E - just four scenes later. Could 59A be a martini bar at the top of the Shard? I could see a scene playing out with Bond stopping for a drink before going down to infiltrate a substation of Chinese intelligence.

Why do we believe board V64BA to be an office in Shanghai? Pardom me for the probably stupid question, I just don´t remember the clapperboard that well.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the chinese on the glass. I remember it now. Why can´t it be a chinese office in London? Just a thought.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:30 AM


ooooooh, screams Bond to me that observatory. It´s gonna be ready by May this year right? Tallest bulding in western europe? London´s never gonna look the same again. It HAS to be in a Bond film.

There's just one small problem: if it's in SKYFALL, then based on the clapperbaord shots, The Shard is probably going to be in Shanghai. The above shot, with board V63E would be followed by board 64, which is believed to be an office in Shanghai.


I was just thinking the same, Captain. It appears that scene 64 is set on the 67th floor of an Office Building, so it is likely that this building will be doubling for a chinese Skyscraper in Skyfall.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:31 AM

Why can´t it be a chinese office in London? Just a thought.

It certainly could be, but V64BA has a distinct neon-green colour to it. Shots from second unit filming in Shanghai showed a distinct neon-purple colour under the highways, and the introductory video on 007.com had a neon-blue sign in the background. It appears that neon colouring is something of a theme for the Chinese locations, which suggests that V64BA is in Shanghai rather than London.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:33 AM



ooooooh, screams Bond to me that observatory. It´s gonna be ready by May this year right? Tallest bulding in western europe? London´s never gonna look the same again. It HAS to be in a Bond film.

There's just one small problem: if it's in SKYFALL, then based on the clapperbaord shots, The Shard is probably going to be in Shanghai. The above shot, with board V63E would be followed by board 64, which is believed to be an office in Shanghai.


I was just thinking the same, Captain. It appears that scene 64 is set on the 67th floor of an Office Building, so it is likely that this building will be doubling for a chinese Skyscraper in Skyfall.

Yeah, you´re probably right Luigi, what a shame...that London skyline is gorgeous from the Shard.


Why can´t it be a chinese office in London? Just a thought.

It certainly could be, but V64BA has a distinct neon-green colour to it. Shots from second unit filming in Shanghai showed a distinct neon-purple colour under the highways, and the introductory video on 007.com had a neon-blue sign in the background. It appears that neon colouring is something of a theme for the Chinese locations, which suggests that V64BA is in Shanghai rather than London.

Makes sense.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:35 AM

that London skyline is gorgeous from the Shard.

I'm guessing that anything shot at Pinewood - probably 59A and V64BA - had a green screen in the background, and the Shanghai skyline will be added in post-production. Before people howl and complain over this, I would suggest they go and watch THE GHOST WRITER. Polanski did exactly the same thing; all the shots inside Pierce Brosnan's house were done on a sound stage with green screen in the place of the windows, to which a background was later added digitally. You can't actually tell that it was done this way.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:41 AM

Still filming there tomorrow, I believe ; ) Would be a nice place to spend your Sunday...

Time to go to bed now, it's 3.40 am here in Italy! Good night all!

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 29 January 2012 - 02:44 AM.


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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:56 AM


that London skyline is gorgeous from the Shard.

I'm guessing that anything shot at Pinewood - probably 59A and V64BA - had a green screen in the background, and the Shanghai skyline will be added in post-production. Before people howl and complain over this, I would suggest they go and watch THE GHOST WRITER. Polanski did exactly the same thing; all the shots inside Pierce Brosnan's house were done on a sound stage with green screen in the place of the windows, to which a background was later added digitally. You can't actually tell that it was done this way.


And I had no idea it was done that way until now. It looked well done, and more so since the weather was often depicted as rather inclimate which would require more detail than a simple blue, sunny sky.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:07 AM

And I had no idea it was done that way until now. It looked well done, and more so since the weather was often depicted as rather inclimate which would require more detail than a simple blue, sunny sky.

I think people are far too quick to criticise the use of CGI. There is a scene in THE GHOST WRITER where Ewan McGregor watches Pierce Brosnan pacing outside the window. McGregor and Brosnan were filmed separately, and the two were merged together in post-production - it's not like the first half of the parasailing scene in DIE ANOTHER DAY (when the dragster is hanging over the ice floe) where the backgrounds were rendered and added in post production. Nor is it like the second half of the parasailing scene where everything was done in CGI. It's all real footage, melded together digitally. That's how the parachute sequence in QUANTUM OF SOLACE was filmed: the actors and the background were filmed separately and then combined, though it is a little bit more obvious that the scene uses VFX because it's an action scene. But if SKYFALL features scenes in a bar at the top of the Shard (which would be done at Pinewood) with the Shanghai skyline added in digitally from footage that was actually shot, I doubt many people would notice that it was VFX. It's a less-than-perfect solution, but that doesn't completely invalidate it.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:29 AM

Yep, but I´m not complaining about that. Polanski did the same in Carnage. It´s just that, as in the pool scene, the London views from those places are magnificent, and they won´t make it to the film, some other will. But, no problem with that of course, I´m sure everything will look gorgeous on screen.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:37 AM

It would be a little bit awkward for the pool scenes to be set in Shanghai when the London Eye is clearly visible in the background.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:42 AM

Sure, it´s all about the script, I get that. Love all this speculation.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:46 AM

For great, seemless CGI, look no further than the PTS of QOS, where footage of Daniel Craig filmed months later in a studio was spliced into the footage shot near Lake Garda -- the way it's shot and Craig's seamless reactions help to sell it, but the VFX department really came through in it. I was completely shocked to learn how it was filmed, especially that Craig never had to do a single shot of location work for that sequence -- it was that good.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:49 AM

Yep, that´s true. Very well done.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 09:34 AM

This is the answer:
http://the-shard.com/observatory

I think that what we see in the picture are the hi-speed lifts of The Shard London Bridge!
What do you think?



No, sorry.

I’m convinced that, this section of the film will be in Shanghai and the clapperboard photo shows a large interior set at Pinewood - which is where I believe they were filming on Friday 27th.
The 'photo' in that link is an artist impression; the Shard is still under construction and will not be finished until June or open for use until next year. They could not film there, it’s an unsafe building sight right now.

Photo taken on the 27th
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 09:42 AM

If filming was really taking place in the Shard, we would have heard about it by now.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 10:19 AM

To play devil's advocate - if the picture was of lifts inside the Shard, why would the caption say "industrial action"? Could still be set inside a factory complex etc, but I'm interested to hear people's theories. My instinct was always that this was a Pinewood set.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 10:22 AM

To play devil's advocate - if the picture was of lifts inside the Shard, why would the caption say "industrial action"?

What caption?

Could still be set inside a factory complex etc, but I'm interested to hear people's theories. My instinct was always that this was a Pinewood set.

It could be set inside a factory complex, but the clapperboard shot of V64BA shows what appears to be the interior of an office. So I'd wager on the theory that this is actually a shot of an elevator shaft.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 11:15 AM

Yes, as I said on the last page, I think it shows part of quite a large set at Pinewood, and that this section of the set is a row of three or more open lift shafts.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 11:23 AM

Well, that would make sense. The office in the Shanghai skyscraper is supposedly on the 67th floor of the building it is in, so having elevators would make sense. Especially since the very next scene takes place in front of a neon office sign and desk, and the photos from the second-unit footage shot in Shanghai are of a neon-lit highway; like I've said before, neon appears to be a theme to Shanghai in the film.

I'm guessing that in the film, scene 59 will be Bond at a martini bar, maybe on some kind of observation deck at the top of the skyscraper. In scene 63, he will go down the elevator shaft, possibly without riding an elevator car. And then in scene 64, he infiltrates the office.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:13 PM

Or scenes 63 and 64 have nothing to do with Bond and show how the sniper we saw at the MGW intro gets to that blue neon place.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:32 PM


To play devil's advocate - if the picture was of lifts inside the Shard, why would the caption say "industrial action"?

What caption?

When they post the picture on the 007 Twitter account, there's usually a caption attached in the body of the actual tweet. In this instance, it read "industrial action".

http://www.twitter.c...012508884549634

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:51 PM

So, here he is in car with and without driver on top.

Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image

Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image http://thumbnails38....bf172219844.jpg http://thumbnails54....70172219924.jpg

credit DTD

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 03:56 PM

"Ted Nugent called. He wants his shirt back."

On a sidenote to that, I´ve got Mendes scarf ;) or one just like it I mean.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 04:06 PM

So, here he is in car with and without driver on top.

Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image

Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image http://thumbnails38....bf172219844.jpg http://thumbnails54....70172219924.jpg

credit DTD


Cheers Germanlady! Bond doesn't look too happy sitting in that car...

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 04:47 PM

I see Dan has his nike blue&yellow trainers, so he probably won´t get out of the car in these reshoots, given that his shoes were different last time around.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 05:39 PM


This is the answer:
http://the-shard.com/observatory

I think that what we see in the picture are the hi-speed lifts of The Shard London Bridge!
What do you think?



No, sorry.

I’m convinced that, this section of the film will be in Shanghai and the clapperboard photo shows a large interior set at Pinewood - which is where I believe they were filming on Friday 27th.
The 'photo' in that link is an artist impression; the Shard is still under construction and will not be finished until June or open for use until next year. They could not film there, it’s an unsafe building sight right now.

Photo taken on the 27th
Posted Image


Do you remember that I reported last week that they were going to film a stunt sequence featuring 007 jumping off the roof of a building?

ShaazNOTshaz ShaazNOTshaz
A film crew has hired the roof terrace of my office on Sat and Daniel Craig will be jumping off the roof, presumably for the new Bond
19 Jan

I suggested that the building could possibly be the One Canada Square, but actually I'm more inclined to think that it was The Shard or a near building, instead.
That girl posted this picture, which was taken at her workplace, I suppose:

ShaazNOTshaz ShaazNOTshaz
That was pretty twitpic.com/86ezca

When I considered the possibility of the building being the One Canada Square I wasn't aware of the fact that there are actually so many cranes around The Shard (forgive me, but I don't live in London ). If you look at the following picture it appears that ShaazNOTshaz works in a tower near The Shard or even in The Shard itself:

http://en.wikipedia....on_Dec-9-11.jpg

My guess is that they could have really been in the Shard for filming the scene V63E on Friday .
The sequence we'll see in the film could be that Bond has to catch up or escape from the sniper we see in the scene 64 and and is forced to descend from the tower using a crane or a lift outside:

http://www.flickr.co...zie/5502444609/

However, for confirmation just go there and find if there are any Caterpillar's cranes ...

Side note: thanks for posting the pictures Germanlady, great work!

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 29 January 2012 - 06:05 PM.


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Posted 29 January 2012 - 06:01 PM

You're welcome.Luigi.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 06:13 PM



This is the answer:
http://the-shard.com/observatory

I think that what we see in the picture are the hi-speed lifts of The Shard London Bridge!
What do you think?



No, sorry.

I’m convinced that, this section of the film will be in Shanghai and the clapperboard photo shows a large interior set at Pinewood - which is where I believe they were filming on Friday 27th.
The 'photo' in that link is an artist impression; the Shard is still under construction and will not be finished until June or open for use until next year. They could not film there, it’s an unsafe building sight right now.

Photo taken on the 27th
Posted Image


Do you remember that I reported last week that they were going to film a stunt sequence featuring 007 jumping off the roof of a building?

ShaazNOTshaz ShaazNOTshaz
A film crew has hired the roof terrace of my office on Sat and Daniel Craig will be jumping off the roof, presumably for the new Bond
19 Jan

I suggested that the building could possibly be the One Canada Square, but actually I'm more inclined to think that it was The Shard or a near building, instead.
That girl posted this picture, which was taken at her workplace, I suppose:

ShaazNOTshaz ShaazNOTshaz
That was pretty twitpic.com/86ezca

When I considered the possibility of the building being the One Canada Square I wasn't aware of the fact that there are actually so many cranes around The Shard (forgive me, but I don't live in London ). If you look at the following picture it appears that ShaazNOTshaz works in a tower near The Shard or even in The Shard itself:

http://en.wikipedia....on_Dec-9-11.jpg

My guess is that they could have really been in the Shard for filming the scene V63E on Friday .
The sequence we'll see in the film could be that Bond has to catch up or escape from the sniper we see in the scene 64 and and is forced to descend from the tower using a crane or a lift outside:

http://www.flickr.co...zie/5502444609/

However, for confirmation just go there and find if there are any Caterpillar's cranes ...

Side note: thanks for posting the pictures Germanlady, great work!



Yes, but my point is that nobody works in the Shard yet, it’s a building site. Well, other than construction workers.

So if someone is saying "A film crew has hired the roof terrace of my office on Sat and Daniel Craig will be jumping off the roof, presumably for the new Bond" they can not mean the Shard. There is no roof to have a terrace or anything else on.



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