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Which film is the most visually appealing?
Before you go right off and answer a film, give it a fair bit of thought and back up your reasons why. Now this isn't just visual effects. Which film excelled the most in all things visuals? Camerawork, color palette, special effects, production design (design and creation of sets, environments, objects)...all are contributing factors. Which film is the most illustrious, detailed, and rich with visceral design, symbolism and appetite? I've posted some standouts from each film.
Sorcerer's Stone:
Chamber of Secrets:
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Goblet of Fire:
Order of the Phoenix:
Half-Blood Prince:
Deathly Hallows - Part 1:
Deathly Hallows - Part 2:
If you think about it, it really is a tough decision. The first two films are filled with very rich, warm bright colors which accentuate every small detail of the fully-realized world. Sure, the camerawork isn't as good, but it's all very friendly, candy-coated, and visually dazzling. The third and fourth films are darker, more modern and medieval style architecture, with wide epic panoramas, darker skies and more visual candy. In the fifth film, the cinematography is less candy-coated and more gritty, bleak style filming, with a lot of symbolism and kinetic effects that look very real and powerful. The production design increases tenfold heading into the later films, and the sixth film is full of warm, coffee-stained colors and bleak, gothic design, rich with hues and monochromatic saturation, and chalk full of visual symbolism. DH Part 1 is also very symbolic, bleak and desolate, haunting, mesmerizing, filled with stunning set pieces and brilliant effects. Part 2 is a blend of everything we've seen before, an extreme effects show but with a lot of visceral symbolism and symmetry in it, and some electric, bright hues to contrast with the darker ones.
I'm going to wait to give my answer until I get some input, but give your thoughts, please. Remember, not just effects or cinematography--visual style, appetite, color pallete as well. Which film succeeded the most at realizing the visual world of HP? Go.
Sorcerer's Stone:
Chamber of Secrets:
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Goblet of Fire:
Order of the Phoenix:
Half-Blood Prince:
Deathly Hallows - Part 1:
Deathly Hallows - Part 2:
If you think about it, it really is a tough decision. The first two films are filled with very rich, warm bright colors which accentuate every small detail of the fully-realized world. Sure, the camerawork isn't as good, but it's all very friendly, candy-coated, and visually dazzling. The third and fourth films are darker, more modern and medieval style architecture, with wide epic panoramas, darker skies and more visual candy. In the fifth film, the cinematography is less candy-coated and more gritty, bleak style filming, with a lot of symbolism and kinetic effects that look very real and powerful. The production design increases tenfold heading into the later films, and the sixth film is full of warm, coffee-stained colors and bleak, gothic design, rich with hues and monochromatic saturation, and chalk full of visual symbolism. DH Part 1 is also very symbolic, bleak and desolate, haunting, mesmerizing, filled with stunning set pieces and brilliant effects. Part 2 is a blend of everything we've seen before, an extreme effects show but with a lot of visceral symbolism and symmetry in it, and some electric, bright hues to contrast with the darker ones.
I'm going to wait to give my answer until I get some input, but give your thoughts, please. Remember, not just effects or cinematography--visual style, appetite, color pallete as well. Which film succeeded the most at realizing the visual world of HP? Go.
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So Crucify the ego, before it's far too late, to leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical. And you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
Lord Stafford.
Lord Stafford.