I saw something like this when I worked at Disney years ago, and before that at NASA. But I think there were some bits of fakery, in the sense that there seemed to be a lot of times when they cut the film just as the thing was about to do something stupid or wrong or come to a crashing halt, or to change what was on the screen so you couldn't see that the thing they were doing wasn't as flexible as it could be.
It's like watching somebody demo Photoshop: they make it look totally seamless and easy to do really complex things, but that's because they've chosen easy problems they know how to solve, and made a demo that demonostrates what they want to show you.
So maybe it's gotten better while I've been off in grad school, and the places where I began to cringe because I knew it was going to crash have been fixed, but I do think they manipulated the video to show the best parts.
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yesthattom) wrote2006-02-15 12:30 am
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It's like watching somebody demo Photoshop: they make it look totally seamless and easy to do really complex things, but that's because they've chosen easy problems they know how to solve, and made a demo that demonostrates what they want to show you.
So maybe it's gotten better while I've been off in grad school, and the places where I began to cringe because I knew it was going to crash have been fixed, but I do think they manipulated the video to show the best parts.