StarThoughts said:
PDB said:
Silly question. Since I have been watching Alien so many times lately I began to wonder: does Dallas knows Ash is an android? Ash is the only person on the ship that Dallas listens to and sometimes takes orders from. When Ash says the facehugger has to go back Dallas accepts that decision in the face of everything that's happened. Dallas as the captain is the only one to have access directly to Mother so its not unreasonable to think he might know an android is aboard also. He seems to know that Ash equals the company.
I don't think so; not that Dallas couldn't have accessed the information (if Ripley had clearance once she took command of the ship, he would have had it the whole time), but that he would have had no reason to think he should. He does mention that Ash was a late addition to the crew and that he had no explanation for the replacement, but goes no further, suggesting that he just sort of shrugged and went with it.
Ash gets to make certain decisions where the science section has authority (this is not the same thing as breaking quarantine regulations, which Ash clearly did with ulterior motives).
All very true StarThoughts. Just thought it was strange that Dallas cared so much about what Ash thought, science officer or not.
kk650 said:
Fleshtones are all very nice and orange in those 35mm shots of Aliens, I think you want to try to make sure you're getting those just right, I can see a little green in those fleshtones as well so you've got leeway to lean in that direction if you want, i'd personally avoid leaning towards the reds though in terms of fleshtones, the characters looking permanently sunburnt is not a good look IMHO.
Lights look nice and yellow as well, could probably use a little more red though to warm them up a bit more, at least for my taste.
I really like how the colours of those 35mm prints look! If you get the fleshtones and lightsources looking like those in the Aliens 35mm prints, you'll definately be onto something great here IMHO.
I would love to time my regrade of Aliens off those 35mm frames. I too like the coloring which has warmer skin tones and more saturated colors then the DVD, less extreme then the LD. There are two problems. One I'm pretty sure that they are from a trailer so they may not be the final color timing of an Aliens print. Second there are too few to figure out the correct timing for every scene. Some of those 35mm frames match the DVD best, some the LD and some the BD (the scenes without horrible green). Looks like I should correct to the LD and pull the saturation down and lighten the skin tones or grade to the DVD and increase the saturation, make the skin tones warmer and increase the contrast. Oh well need to finish Alien first before any of that.
EDIT: Nah, that's not fair for me to say, i'm sure there are many here on this site, the silent majority that rarely post and even some regular posters here I imagine, that enjoy my releases a great deal and post their thanks on tehparadox where they feel more at liberty to do so and it is very much appreciated. I'm very glad that you also like what i've done with my previous releases. Hopefully I can inspire others to start doing their own regraded releases like you are doing with Alien and Aliens.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you do with these two films, those 35mm frames look very nice. Like Andrea, I'm very happy to see others joining the fray, trying their hand at grading and putting out their own releases, very happy indeed.
Yeah you are being too hard on yourself, trust me there are a lot of people here who like your work kk650.
This is my first project ever, hopefully my work can live up to the high standards that have been set here. I'm getting close.