DVD Releases For August 19, 2008
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES is now out on DVD and Blu-ray, along with some JUSTICE LEAGUE, HANNAH MONTANA in 3-D and a direct-to-video extension of the Scorpion King story.
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES: The Complete First Season On DVD And Blu-ray
From Warner Home Video comes the first complete season of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor (300's Lena Headey) prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day? The man-vs.-machine tale that's thrilled millions gets a reboot in this series set after the events of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. Now the battlefield has shifted to the present. Will John Connor (HEROES' Thomas Dekker) seize his destiny? Will a cell phone salesman's chess program evolve into Skynet? Can the sweet but deadly cyborg (Summer Glau of FIREFLY) be trusted? Answers -- and the fight for the future -- are here and now.
With the compressed turnaround time for vfx shots on a television show, Lima says one of the key components they developed to assist their pipeline efficiency is the use of concept art throughout the pre-pro stages.
"We are very, very fortunate to have brilliant EPs," VFX Supervisor Jim Lima explained. "We had meetings very early on about how do we do this pipeline? I'm at the service of the script but also I am trying to enhance it. My philosophy is that vfx is an extension of editing except that it's not really a post-production process despite the fact that's where it kind of lives. It really occurs very early on in the treatment phase. Something I learned from [Steven] Spielberg is that the treatment phase is where you start dynamically visualizing the universe so that each element and continent on that planet fits into the logic of the story. Fortunately, I was able to get treatments very early [on this] so I would do concept art. I have been given the great gift of being able to draw and that's a huge communication tool in a visual medium. I am able to go, 'Here's your idea and here is where it can go.' When [the producers] come back and say is this feasible, because I am also a vfx supervisor I can say, yes, this is how we can do this and explain it to them. From there it's tons more meetings and I never think of it as TV. It's a medium that works on a smaller scale but it's the same thing as a film. So in concept meetings, I will throw out the most grandiose, epic shots and offer why and how it impacts the characters and the audience. I'm a visual storyteller so I work very closely with Josh [Friedman, exec producer and screenwriter] and the writers. From there it gets pared down and we look at the budget."
Zoic Studios in Los Angeles is the vfx house creating the visuals for the series and Lima says they've really tailored all of their software systems to help them manage the rigors of the series. "There has been a lot of software exploration. As an industry, we are all using the same tools, so we ask can we bend this to give us a little extra magic to what we are trying to do to the shot that will separate it from a straight out of the tube Maya render. A lot of it has to do with the classic stuff of lenses and lighting and that is where vfx will never lose its reality because at the end of the day you have to know those things and there's no short cut around that."
Episodes:
"Pilot"
"Gnothi Seauton"
"The Turk"
"Heavy Metal"
"Queen's Gambit"
"Dungeons and Dragons"
"The Demon Hand"
"Vick's Chip"
"What He Beheld"
Special Features Include:
--"Creating the CHRONICLES" featurette -- An all-encompassing look at the production process involved with every aspect of bringing TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES to television
--Commentaries -- Includes exec producers Josh Freidman and John Wirth and cast members Summer Glau and Thomas Dekker.
--Terminated Scenes (deleted scenes)
--Gag Reel
--Cast Audition Tapes -- Includes Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Richard T. Jones
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES: The Complete First Season On DVD And Blu-ray
From Warner Home Video comes the first complete season of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor (300's Lena Headey) prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day? The man-vs.-machine tale that's thrilled millions gets a reboot in this series set after the events of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. Now the battlefield has shifted to the present. Will John Connor (HEROES' Thomas Dekker) seize his destiny? Will a cell phone salesman's chess program evolve into Skynet? Can the sweet but deadly cyborg (Summer Glau of FIREFLY) be trusted? Answers -- and the fight for the future -- are here and now.
With the compressed turnaround time for vfx shots on a television show, Lima says one of the key components they developed to assist their pipeline efficiency is the use of concept art throughout the pre-pro stages.
"We are very, very fortunate to have brilliant EPs," VFX Supervisor Jim Lima explained. "We had meetings very early on about how do we do this pipeline? I'm at the service of the script but also I am trying to enhance it. My philosophy is that vfx is an extension of editing except that it's not really a post-production process despite the fact that's where it kind of lives. It really occurs very early on in the treatment phase. Something I learned from [Steven] Spielberg is that the treatment phase is where you start dynamically visualizing the universe so that each element and continent on that planet fits into the logic of the story. Fortunately, I was able to get treatments very early [on this] so I would do concept art. I have been given the great gift of being able to draw and that's a huge communication tool in a visual medium. I am able to go, 'Here's your idea and here is where it can go.' When [the producers] come back and say is this feasible, because I am also a vfx supervisor I can say, yes, this is how we can do this and explain it to them. From there it's tons more meetings and I never think of it as TV. It's a medium that works on a smaller scale but it's the same thing as a film. So in concept meetings, I will throw out the most grandiose, epic shots and offer why and how it impacts the characters and the audience. I'm a visual storyteller so I work very closely with Josh [Friedman, exec producer and screenwriter] and the writers. From there it gets pared down and we look at the budget."
Zoic Studios in Los Angeles is the vfx house creating the visuals for the series and Lima says they've really tailored all of their software systems to help them manage the rigors of the series. "There has been a lot of software exploration. As an industry, we are all using the same tools, so we ask can we bend this to give us a little extra magic to what we are trying to do to the shot that will separate it from a straight out of the tube Maya render. A lot of it has to do with the classic stuff of lenses and lighting and that is where vfx will never lose its reality because at the end of the day you have to know those things and there's no short cut around that."
Episodes:
"Pilot"
"Gnothi Seauton"
"The Turk"
"Heavy Metal"
"Queen's Gambit"
"Dungeons and Dragons"
"The Demon Hand"
"Vick's Chip"
"What He Beheld"
Special Features Include:
--"Creating the CHRONICLES" featurette -- An all-encompassing look at the production process involved with every aspect of bringing TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES to television
--Commentaries -- Includes exec producers Josh Freidman and John Wirth and cast members Summer Glau and Thomas Dekker.
--Terminated Scenes (deleted scenes)
--Gag Reel
--Cast Audition Tapes -- Includes Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Richard T. Jones
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