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Mine are displayed in chronological order, but only the box sets with consecutive stories are in the main bit. All the other box sets are currently at the end all together. This may change soon after reading this thread! It's the kind of thing that keeps you awake at night...
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I have to say I love the new CGI effects put in on the classic DVDs. For example The Ark In Space is very much improved and also The Dalek Invasion of Earth. Shame they didn't use it for Invasion Of The Dinosaurs though.
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Theyanted to put new effects in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, but you can't put new visual effects over olds and no clean edits of those scenes exist.
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Actually, technically, it might be possible, but almost certainly not commercially worthwhile. They could use CGI to replace the CSO dinosaurs with realistic background to match what can be seen of the original background, and then superimpose more realistic dinosaurs over the new, fake background.
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Actually, technically, it might be possible, but almost certainly not commercially worthwhile. They could use CGI to replace the CSO dinosaurs with realistic background to match what can be seen of the original background, and then superimpose more realistic dinosaurs over the new, fake background.
Cut the actors out of the original footage and superimpose them over the new background. But that'll look pretty bad since they're not coming from a blue screen. The second is to create CGI versions of the actors, which is super expensive even if they're not photo-realistic. The third is to get lookalikes to lip synch to the original dialogue. Blasphemy! |
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That technique sorts the scenes with only dinosaurs but not ones with actors and dinosaurs together. That leaves you 3 options to complete the effects:
Cut the actors out of the original footage and superimpose them over the new background. But that'll look pretty bad since they're not coming from a blue screen. The second is to create CGI versions of the actors, which is super expensive even if they're not photo-realistic. The third is to get lookalikes to lip synch to the original dialogue. Blasphemy! Hmm, hang it why not remake the entire story -in the same style/ opening credits as the original but with CGI dinosaurs and a much better spaceship. Then get Sean Pertwee to play his dad, all that we would need is a suitable Sarah Jane Smith (her daughter maybe too -?), Sergeant Benton, Mike Yates & of course the Brigadier.. although finding someone to replace Nicholas Courtney might be a real challenge |
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Lots of series had differing production order from what showed up on screen -
Season 09 - Peladon and Sea Devils were switched before broadcast. Season 10 - Production order was Carnival of Monsters, Frontier In Space, Three Doctors, Planet Of The Daleks, Green Death. Season 12 - Production order - Robot, Sontaran Experiment, Ark In Space, Revenge of the Cybs, Genesis of the Daleks. Also, between 1972 and 1975 the first story of each season was actually the last one made in the previous production block. So Carnival Of Monsters was the last to be made in the season 9 production run, then they took a break. Time Warrior was produced straight after Green Death, Robot straight after Planet of the Spiders. Terror of the Zygons is a slightly special case as it was actually intended to close Tom Baker's first series, but when production of season 13 was brought forward to allow transmission to start in the autumn, this story was held back to give the team a tiny bit of breathing space) Season 13 - Pyramids of Mars was made before Planet of Evil. Season 15 - Production order - Invisible Enemy, Fang Rock, Sun Makers, Fendahl, Underworld, Invasion of Time. Season 17 - Production order - Creature from the Pit, City Of Death, Destiny, Eden, Nimon. Season 18 - State of Decay was the second story to be made, but shown fourth. Season 19 - production order - Four To Doomsday, Visitation, Kinda, Castrovalva, Black Orchid, Earthshock, Timeflight. Season 20 - Snakedance was the first made, but shown second. Season 22 - Mark of the Rani and Two Doctors were switched at a late stage. Season 25 - Production order - Remembrance, Greatest Show, Nemesis, Happiness Patrol. Season 26 - Production order - Fenric, Battlefield, Survival, Ghost Light. I'm slightly perturbed that I've typed out the above entirely from memory, I can remember useless facts like Doctor Who production information, yet I can't remember my car number plate, or my wife's birthday... I've not checked it against Wikipedia or anything, so if anything's wrong I apologise. But I have a nasty feeling that it's all correct and my brain is clearly even more full of pointless information than I thought... ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, space and funds prevent me from acquiring the DW DVDs, but should the occasion ever arise, I know exactly where to come if I need advice on filing. |
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That technique sorts the scenes with only dinosaurs but not ones with actors and dinosaurs together. That leaves you 3 options to complete the effects:
Cut the actors out of the original footage and superimpose them over the new background. But that'll look pretty bad since they're not coming from a blue screen. The second is to create CGI versions of the actors, which is super expensive even if they're not photo-realistic. The third is to get lookalikes to lip synch to the original dialogue. Blasphemy! |
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Has anyone thought of storing them by time-line chronology?
I think I tried to do this once over a bank holiday weekend.... |
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Has anyone thought of storing them by time-line chronology?
I think I tried to do this once over a bank holiday weekend.... Part of this is down to the fact that new Doctor Who stories aren't issued each on its own disc. Thus, The End of the World should be roughly contemporary with the end of "The Steel Sky" (Episode 1 of The Ark), allowing for the time that it takes the image of the Earth's destruction to reach the spaceship, but the two can hardly be shelved together because TEotW is always going to be bracketed by Rose and The Unquiet Dead, datable to the 21st and 19th centuries respectively. Even if one limits it to individually boxed Classic Doctor Who stories, problems still present themselves. There are stories that give no indication of when they are set (The Dominators and The Krotons, for example); stories which offer only the vaguest clues (The War Games must be set some time after the start of the 21st century, Carnival of Monsters some time after the SS Bernice's original disappearance in 1926); stories which take place across more than one time-period (Mawdryn Undead); and stories which quite possibly do not take place in any recognisable time at all (The Celestial Toymaker, The Mind Robber). I hope you spent this bank holiday weekend just gone more profitably. |
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Has anyone thought of storing them by time-line chronology?
I think I tried to do this once over a bank holiday weekend....
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Has anyone thought of storing them by time-line chronology?
I think I tried to do this once over a bank holiday weekend.... |
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O.k... based (mostly) on chronological broadcast, I am going to organize the 21st Century Who in this order:
- Doctor Who: Series 1 (March - June 2005) - Doctor Who: Series 2 (April - July 2006) - Torchwood: Series 1 (October 2006 - January 2007) - Doctor Who: Series 3 (March - June 2007) - Animated: The Infinite Quest (June 2007) - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 1 (September - November 2007) - Torchwood: Series 2 (January - April 2008) - Doctor Who: Series 4 (April - July 2008) - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 2 (September - December 2008) - Torchwood: Series 3: Children of Earth (July, 2009) - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 3 (October - November 2009) - Animated: Dreamland (December 2009) - Doctor Who: The Specials (December 2008 - January 2010) - Doctor Who: Series 5 (April - June 2010) - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 4 (October - November 2010) - Doctor Who: Series 6 (April - October 2011) - Torchwood: Series 4: Miracle Day (July - September 2011) - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 5 (October 2011) - Doctor Who: Series 7 (September 2012 - May 2013) - Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor: 50th Anniversary Special (November 2013) - Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (December 2013) - Doctor Who: Series 8 (August - November 2014) - Doctor Who: Series 9 (September - December 2015) - Class: Series 1 (2016) - Doctor Who: Series 10 (2017) That is, near as I can figure, the best way to put the boxes in order so that you are watching the stories as they were broadcast. This makes the most sense for cross-over episodes and plots which happen frequently during the Russel T. Davies years. Does anybody have any suggestions for improvements on this?
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I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but when I saw The Invasion Episode 2 recently there was a lot of black squiggly marks at the bottom of the screen. I wonder if there has been a problem the Restoration Team can't overcome... Not that it distracts from the story in any way.
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