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[Marketto007]

Here's the high resolution photo from Sam Mendes released today.

 

[Marketto007]

Here's an album with high resolution screenshots from VIDEOBLOG #2.

 

http://imgur.com/a/smPjZ

[x007AceOfSpades]

That's definitely a very interesting weapon. I thought I was seeing double when I was looking at it.

[JCRendle]

 

I'm guessing this is somewhere in Austria, from the scene number 67?

[Vauxhall]

I agree. Scene 65 was looking across the lake, so I'd imagine it's likely to be an interior of the chalet.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Perhaps he's going to visit someone.

[RMc2]

The wonderful thing I'm getting from all the images and B-roll footage so far is SPECTRE's really strong art direction. All those clean whites and sharp, deep blacks*: It's looking very stylish, as a great Bond film should!

 

It also looks like a lot of scenes are very similar to SkyFall's cinematography (especially interiors). Obviously it's too early to judge, but it does look like Mendes has asked Hoytema to recreate Deakins' work. Bit disappointing if that's the case, but not unsurprising.

 

 

*deliberate echoes of QoS?

[x007AceOfSpades]

Obviously it's too early to judge, but it does look like Mendes has asked Hoytema to recreate Deakins' work. Bit disappointing if that's the case, but not unsurprising.

I wouldn't say that he's trying to recreate Deakins work at all. Just like I don't think Christopher Nolan asked Hoytema to recreate Wally Pfister's work from their previous collaborations. If the trailer does arrive on the 28th of this month, then we'll have a sure answer as to whether or not Hoytema is imitating Deakins. Hoytema is a fantastic cinematographer, and even stated in a interview that he isn't looking to try and top or imitate Deakins. He merely signed on because of his admiration of Mendes' work, being a Bond film is just an added perk.

[RMc2]

 

Obviously it's too early to judge, but it does look like Mendes has asked Hoytema to recreate Deakins' work. Bit disappointing if that's the case, but not unsurprising.

I wouldn't say that he's trying to recreate Deakins work at all. Just like I don't think Christopher Nolan asked Hoytema to recreate Wally Pfister's work from their previous collaborations. If the trailer does arrive on the 28th of this month, then we'll have a sure answer as to whether or not Hoytema is imitating Deakins. Hoytema is a fantastic cinematographer, and even stated in a interview that he isn't looking to try and top or imitate Deakins. He merely signed on because of his admiration of Mendes' work, being a Bond film is just an added perk.

 

 

I hope you're right, and of course time will prove me wrong!

 

I do, however, think that Hoytema's work on Interstellar was deliberately in the vein of Wally Pfister and expect his work on SPECTRE will be similarly in the vein of Deakins' SkyFall work. Don't get me wrong: I love Hoytema and am sure he'll put a personal spin on the visuals. But one of his great strengths is his versatility, and I think he tends to create whatever look directors ask him to, rather than having a singularly distinct style of his own like Deakins, Pfister, Unsworth, etc.

 

Not that that's a problem for Bond: I've loved the similar-but-different style of the Craig Bonds. They're much more of a cinematographical whole than the Brosnans, or even the Connerys.

[Marketto007]

For those interested, here's the latest high resolution photos from the official Sony Press Kit. The ones used in EMPIRE last issue.

 

http://i.imgur.com/vF8P47Y.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/cJouZm2.jpg

[Luigi Ferrari]

Time to update the first post, I'd say.

New addition: scene 56 , car chase in front of St. Peter's Church as you can see in the video below at 00:53

http://video.corrier...eb-2972a4034f5c

For those interested, here's the latest high resolution photos from the official Sony Press Kit. The ones used in EMPIRE last issue.

 

http://i.imgur.com/vF8P47Y.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/cJouZm2.jpg

Nice work Marketto007, thanks for sharing.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 03 March 2015 - 12:51 PM.

[Vauxhall]

Done!

Scenes so far:
19 - Bond looking out window of his flat, London
21 - bulldog statue in Bond's flat, London
25 - Bond and Tanner in boat on the Thames and entering river tunnel, London
45 - luxury sports cars in Rome (filmed at Blenheim Palace)
49 - Aston Martin & Jaguar car chase, Rome
56 - car chase continues near the Vatican, Rome
62 - looking across the lake, Austria
65 - Bond at the lake, Austria
67 - interior, possibly chalet in Austria
80 - cars drive down the mountain, Austria

[Ace Roberts]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, a scene number on the clapperboard could in fact include several actual scene changes, correct?  The reason I ask, if the PTS is in Mexico as speculated, 1-18 would seem a very short PTS (as compared with Skyfall for instance).  Or am I wrong?

[JCRendle]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, a scene number on the clapperboard could in fact include several actual scene changes, correct?  The reason I ask, if the PTS is in Mexico as speculated, 1-18 would seem a very short PTS (as compared with Skyfall for instance).  Or am I wrong?

 

CR and QoS's PTS were only around 4 minutes, Skyfall, on the other hand, was about 12 minutes - one of the longest. I seem to remember that Bond turning and shooting in the toilet at the end of the Casino Royale PTS was only scene 12 in the script numbering.

[Vauxhall]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, a scene number on the clapperboard could in fact include several actual scene changes, correct?  The reason I ask, if the PTS is in Mexico as speculated, 1-18 would seem a very short PTS (as compared with Skyfall for instance).  Or am I wrong?

 
CR and QoS's PTS were only around 4 minutes, Skyfall, on the other hand, was about 12 minutes - one of the longest. I seem to remember that Bond turning and shooting in the toilet at the end of the Casino Royale PTS was only scene 12 in the script numbering.

That's right. In terms of scene numbers, SPECTRE looks set to be shorter than SKYFALL, but we can't be certain that will translate to minutes on screen.

[Invincible1958]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, a scene number on the clapperboard could in fact include several actual scene changes, correct?

 

Correct.

 

A scene number is fixed to a specific location, not to the various camera angles.

So if Bond is talking with Q in his lab, this would be only one scene number, but many different shots from different angles.

If they walk through a door into another room, then it's a different scene number, because it's a different set.

[JCRendle]

http://www.arsenalfirearms.com/news/10
 

It is with great pleasure that we can finally and officially announce that our brand new product - the AF2011 Dueller Prismatic - was selected some months ago to be one of the key weapons featured in the new James Bond movie "Spectre", due to be released globally in November this year.
Arsenal Firearms supplied 5 stainless pistols to the James Bond production team in fall last year, to take part in various contemporary locations shootings. The guns, originally fully functioning and chambered in .45 ACP, have been modified to shoot special movie-blank rounds. The technical challenge was quite demanding, as for the first time the movie industry specific adaptation team had to assess the functionality with a double barrel semiautomatic pistol.
Arsenal Firearms also supplied a number of dedicated accessories to the James Bond movie production, such as for instance the special double barrel Shoulder Rig pictured in the page.

 

[# 11]

Nice find, thx.

 

Does anybody know the gain of a second barrel? It looks as if they are triggered at the same time anyway.

[JCRendle]

Nice find, thx.

 

Does anybody know the gain of a second barrel? It looks as if they are triggered at the same time anyway.

 

Full specs:-

http://www.arsenalfi.../af2011-dueller

 

[SecretAgentFan]

And the PR campaign also begins for the real stunners...

 

http://www.movieweb....irl-lea-seydoux

[Luigi Ferrari]

A new additon:

scene 48 - car chase in the Nomentana street ( from the video below)

http://video.sky.it/...set/v234315.vid

[Vauxhall]

A new additon:

scene 48 - car chase in the Nomentana street ( from the video below)

http://video.sky.it/...set/v234315.vid

 

Thanks, I've updated the first post now.

[JCRendle]

@007

 

 

An old friend returns, the Original "James Bond". Same scene number as the Bulldog!

 

The window looks familiar...

 

[Tiin007]

Who was it on these forums that was trying to convince me that EON (read: Mendes) are not going overboard with the winks and nods?

[The Dove]

Brilliant!

[JCRendle]

Who was it on these forums that was trying to convince me that EON (read: Mendes) are not going overboard with the winks and nods?

 

Depends how prominent it is in the film, whether reference is made to it or whether it's just window dressing - an Easter egg that that some may spot, others may not.

[Vauxhall]

Very nice. Think that might be an original copy of the book.

Notice that it's a reshoot of scene 21. R on the clapperboard.

[Call Billy Bob]

Hopefully, there will be no mojitos this time...

[tdalton]

Wow.  A callback to Die Another Day.  Never thought I'd see that happen.

 

Maybe Mendes could get really meta and have a flash forward in SPECTRE and then have the film reference itself.  As long as they're going to chock these things full of call backs and references, they might as well revolutionize the concept.

[Shrublands]

Very nice. Think that might be an original copy of the book.

Notice that it's a reshoot of scene 21. R on the clapperboard.

 

Yes, and it strikes me as rather important and costly. That set would have been long dismantled from filming early last December. 

I suspect that the script has been changed significantly deeper in and this scene needed to be reshot in order to work.