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Originally posted by: Bossk
Did anyone else who saw ROTK notice the sudden overreliance on rear shots of Hobbits walking with humans/wizards/elves and notice how awkwardly they were shot? Especially with regards to all the scenes of Pippen with Gandalf. You can tell it's a stand in and it just doesn't look right. Almost like PJ was too ashamed to show the two together from the front. I know that it's easier from the back because you can use a stand in as opposed to paying for the SFX to "shrink" Billy Boyd. But instead of using this awkward shot, why not just eliminate it entirely and just cut back and forth to close ups of Gandalf and Pippen as the move, for example, into Denethor's throne room?
I would say quite the opposite Bossk. ROTK was the first of the trilogy where i noticed a lot of composite work done as compared to the other two films, with less reliance on scale doubles.
I'm embarrassed to admit it never occured to me when I saw FOTR that they would use scale doubles and could not for the life of me figure out how they achieved some of the shots they did (ie Pippin and Merry tackle Boromir, Frodo leaps into the cart to hug Gandalf)