Buffy - The Vampire Slayer (The complete series collection)

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More common is the cheat of filming scenes at night. Night shooting is hugely expensive (everyone's on overtime) so TV and film will instead shoot the scene in the day and then apply a filter to make it look like night. This is most noticeable in the third Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King, when Pippin finds Merry after the Battle of the Pelennor. In the theatrical version of the film, he finds him in daylight. In the Extended Edition, the filter has been changed and the scene is now set at dusk to indicate more time as passed. It's the exact same scene, just changed from one time of day to another thanks to the simple use of a filter. Featurette– An all too-brief featurette that has some cast and crew interviews as well as some behind the scenes footage. If Fox spent the money to do this right like CBS/Paramount did with Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG and Fox did with the perfect The X-Files Blu-Ray then Buffy would look amazing in HD. The problem is just bad decision making and poor effort, Joss Whedon himself needs to find a way to take charge of this project and redo it all from scratch so that it can be kept to the original filmmakers vision. The only episode that is really affected that much by the 16x9 aspect ratio is Season 5's The Body, which is framed in a very particular way. Yeah, yeah, I know, framing is always intentional and important. But in my opinion, it only plays a major part to the story in this single episode. So, for all I care, leave that one in 4x3. Or not. I can't agree there. The benefits would be MASSIVE (& what makes you think the 16mm series weren't 24fps?). Nearly all drama here in the UK was shot on 16mm & looked very good. Those early episodes are hardly viewable in the UK, I'm sure standards converting them to PAL didn't help. The picture is really soft, far too dark, & the images are swimming in digital noise reduction (like looking at the picture through five mosquito nets!). All the seasons, 16 & 35 needs the original negives scanned to HD, all the special effects redone in HD. The biggest improvement would be in the 16mm seasons. It's a huge job, but Paramount managed it with Star Trek TNG, so Fox has to bit the bullet & do it sometime, it's an important series, it spawned so many other programs.

That's where the good news abruptly halts. As the above video shows, they've also made a huge number of mistakes and introduced a large number of problems to the series, most of them resulting from poor editing. Even without this problem, there’s stuff where sunset scenes (like the famous one in the season three opener “Anne”) look like they take place in the middle of the day. Moreover, there’s a weird tint to all the daytime and exterior scenes that belies the absence of post-production that took place on the original standard definition version. Definition refers to how many lines of information (pixels in the digital age) are used to make up the image. The more lines, the finer and more detailed the image. Older American TV shows used to have 480 lines of information running horizontally across the image. This is standard definition (SD). Modern TV shows have 1,080, which is referred to as high definition (HD) and is the current industry standard. I’ve watched the television series a little, but I prefer the filmed edition, as I think Kristy Swanson better carries the title character. Although the show goes in a different direction, Swanson’s Buffy seems more likable as a person, even though she’s vapid at times. She also seems more fun, as the television Buffy is overly serious, sometimes to an immense fault. But Swanson is loads of fun in the role here and she seems to be having a good time, as her performance is energetic and never seems to slow down. The whole blonde cheerleader act might be too overdone for some folks, but I think it meshes well within the structure of the movie. You can also see Swanson in such films as Higher Learning, The Chase, The Phantom, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Supreme Sanction. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland (Panic, The Art of War), Paul Reubens (Mystery Men, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure), Luke Perry (8 Seconds, Beverly Hills 90210), and Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, The Hitcher). Video: How does it look?Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. up against a perhaps unbeatable "opponent" in director Fran Rubel Kuzui, who simply doesn't seem to understand how to fashion the material in

I hope I'm not the only one that likes the DVD quality. I wouldn't buy Buffy on blu ray even if it was possible. There is something to be said about a bit of a grainy picture. It's like the way Giles described how he didn't like computers to Jenny. Because of the smell..... they just don't...... with books you get an all encompassing experience with sight and smell and touch. Computers just give you info and then it's gone. Other releases have included “Shada,” an incomplete story that was halted by strike action before any studio footage could be shot, whose 2017 Blu-ray treatment comprises a patchwork of restored exterior footage, animation, and a specially shot insert starring the present-day Tom Baker. The newly animated edition of 1966’s“The Power Of The Daleks” similarly got a high-definition disc release. I'm aware of all the 4x3 and 16x9 issues with this show and season 1 of Angel. I am a filmmaker myself, so I'm always all for staying true to the original creator's intentions. HOWEVER: I've got the UK import DVDs and the show looks really really good in 16:9. There are a few moments that don't work, sure. I remember a dolly-in shot on Willow in the first episode of season 6 has some equipment in the 16x9 sides. And I think there is one or two other unintended things like this that pop up in a few episodes. The hope is that the current version of Buffy airing is a test run for a future proper re-release, with these problems fixed and cleared up. There is some evidence that this might be the case: The X-Files has been airing in HD on a German network and also on the El Rey network in the USA and apparently early problems with the remastering have been fixed in later airings of the same episodes, so hopefully the same will be true for Buffy. With any further high-def Star Trek releases on hold for the foreseeable future, the longest-running show with the broadest range of what’s achievable in terms of picture quality is still Doctor Who.Lately I was interested in rewatching Buffy again. When it came out on Netflix in HD, I was aware of the issues. It doesn't preserve the 4:3 ratio ofJoss Whedon's original vision. Certain filters were not applied so day-as-night doesn't always appear at night. Apparently some framing in the first few seasons cuts people's heads off (though I have yet to see instances of this occurrance). Also crew members can sometimes be seen in frame but again this has been a few-and-far-between issue and isn't that noticeable unless you're looking for it. So, in a show where several major characters are vampires who catch fire when exposed to sunlight, you can’t convert the original footage into high-definition footage and then not carry out the color grading work that, say, keeps Angel in the dark rather than lying beneath Buffy’s window in full sunlight.

Aaron Miller: "Here's a comment from my post supervisor/AP that I worked with on Buffy. He was a post PA on Season 1 and moved up to AP by Season 6. He and I both went to work on Firefly so we did not do Season 7: Where movies may really benefit from restorations based on original film negatives, TV shows comprise many more hours of footage, that will often have been either shot or edited on video. Often, not every part can be preserved exactly as the producers originally intended. Buffy the Vampire Slayer might be celebrating a quarter of a century, but Fox hasn’t really seen fit to role out the red carpet. If a new restoration was done, I couldn’t tell. A few scenes show some grain, and it does look a bit cleaner than its DVD predecessor. The colors look bold and on the mark, with no smears or other errors, while flesh tones remain natural at all times. The contrast seems stable and well balanced also, as detail level is high and no murkiness is to be seen. Add in a clean source print and we’re in business, as this is a terrific visual presentation in all respects. Audio: How does it sound? overall film to reflect that opinion, but there's little doubt that this is "early" Joss Whedon, and while his writing was still somewhat nascent, it's actually

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Brian Wankum:] Thanks for asking! I am a little torn. The true purists should only ever watch the 4:3 standard def original release versions (exception being the "Once More With Feeling" which was intended to be shown widescreen). Not only is the framing as was originally intended, but i suspect that there will be lots of details in sets, props, costumes and makeup that might not hold up in HD. The first two seasons were shot on 16mm with the show being completed on NTSC video. Seasons 3 and onwards were shot in 35mm and the post processing, while still in the video realm, was at least handled at 24 fps. Also, seasons 4 and later were shot protected for 16:9, so there are legitimate widescreen presentations of these seasons (note that these episodes were still being artistically framed for 1.33:1). As with certain releases in the DVD range (some will still shudder at the very mention of a spanner), there are optional improved special effects on these upscaled stories, but as far as classic Doctor Who goes, the idea is to faithfully represent the show on home media, whether through the episodes themselves or the newly produced documentaries and other features. Like The Wire, this HD version of Buffy is taken from rescanned original negatives and switches the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. Unlike The Wire, this has been achieved through near-indiscriminate cropping, widening, and in some cases, even stretching of the image as broadcast. Switching aspect ratios is already iffy ground, (see also, Fox’s cropping of early Simpsons episodes for their broadcast on FXX) but here it’s just one aspect of a shoddy transfer. As a network show with special effects, any HD transfer of Buffy requires careful post-processing that simply hasn’t been observed here.