What’s this? A Prequel scene
with an actual setshot on location?Btw, while I appreciate shooting on location, this one doesn’t feel Star Warsy enough. It looks to much like a real-world home. The holographic frames are a painfully bad attempt to remedy this.
I have a big problem with the Prequel’s interior set design, and it goes beyond just the props. Everything is absurdly large, clean, and flat. There’s no texture. For example:
I don’t think it’s just the CG that makes it look bad (though it magnifies it). Rather all pre-vis and animation did was the giant cool stuff or the necessary stuff. That’s why so many scenes feel empty. Looking at the image above, what if there was a bench or a garbage near the door? What if instead a blank blue wall, there was a mural? What if the scene took place at sunset, to give it some variation in light?
Yes, it might look like an Amish retreat but at least there’s something. There’s a chair is in background, some paintings. If it was CGI, everything would have been neatly organized containing a bed, lamp, flat wall with window, and maybe a table. Lucas loves his pre-vis department, but all pre-vis did is make cool things, with little thought towards the little things that make a set feel real.