Their audiences know them by various and iconic names: James
Bond, Jason Bourne, Lara Croft, Indiana Jones – all of them globe-trotting, multi-lingual,
high-kicking movie characters known the world over. What makes these characters
so appealing? Well, many things of course, but part of their appeal has
something to do with the fluency and ease by which they’re able to transfer
between two utterly, upsettingly different locations: from the medieval alleys
of a Moroccan city to the high-wire skyline of New York; sprung from the depths
of some MI6 basement and into the throes of a Russian blizzard; racing just
ahead of a fast-moving boulder in the depths of the Amazon, making it back (just
in time!) to teach the morning archaeology class at a preeminent university.
Our culture idolizes speed, motion, fast-moving spreadsheets
of skyline and vista. We love the wild closeness all distances share with each
other. This love of ours has always been embodied by the Hollywood characters
we spend our money to see time and again. We as a planet are only now, in dribs
and drabs, catching up to the speed of these first, pioneering globe-trotters.
With H.264 MPEG encoding technology that allows for livestreaming of enormous
quantities of audio-visual data from a movie-set in, say, London to a digital
production facility in Los Angeles, the lives of filmmakers are gradually
assuming the dimensionless versatility of characters in a film.
Let’s say a director based in Los Angeles needs to see the
results of the last three takes of a particular shot taken in London. He or she
needs to decide – very quickly – which take is the “right” shot to go with. In
the olden days, the director would have needed to be onset for those takes.
Today, with minute-by-minute digital transmutation of vast amounts of data, the
gulf between the director and his or her director’s chair has never been wider
– or more irrelevant. Films can be made that much more cost-effectively and
within the given timeframe of a production. There is little or no need to go
into overtime when it comes to shooting a picture.
We aren’t Hollywood scriptwriters or producers here at
Telairity. But what we can do is help coordinate a studio production, or a
multi-studio collaborative production, in such a way as to make the experience
seamless and “real” as if two different production teams shared the same space.
Let us know how we can be of service. We’re quite sure Lara Croft would approve
this message.
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