[B5JMS] ATTN: JMS Widescreen Takes and Fullscreen Takes Different?

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "David  Chapple" <dachapp at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 05:47:24 GMT
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I was in a comic shop in Burbank recently and a customer who said he had
worked on Babylon 5 said that in a given scene they shot one take for
widescreen and a seperate take for fullscreen.
Is this true? To me it seems time consuming and a strain on the budget, so I
don't know whether to believe him or not.
Take care
David Chapple




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 03 May 2003 00:52:56 GMT
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>I was in a comic shop in Burbank recently and a customer who said he had
>worked on Babylon 5 said that in a given scene they shot one take for
>widescreen and a seperate take for fullscreen.
>Is this true? 

Nope.

It is, in fact, in the top ten percent of the top two percentile of stupid
things I've heard in my life.  This is someone who a) obviously doesn't
understand how you crop wide for full, and b) was never near B5.

 jms

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