10 Things Filmmakers Need To Stop Doing Immediately
7. Creating Obviously Fake Photographs
Sometimes films need to create a photograph that never actually existed in real life. If, for example, Judi Dench and Kirk Douglas were to star together in a film as a long-term married couple and no photos were to exist of them standing side-by-side when they were in their twenties, some visual trickery will have to be employed. This is understandable. What is not understandable is why, nine times out of ten, it looks like complete pants.
In the recent Spielberg-helmed The Post, actors Tom Hanks and Sarah Paulson have to be placed in a photograph with John and Jackie Kennedy, and it looks shockingly fake. This is within a 2018 film with a perfectly decent budget, big stars, and a big director. Presumably, someone gets paid to make these fake photos.
The technology is there for the most casual Photoshop users to do this half-decently, but Hollywood only seem to have the money spare for a young blind child with Photoshop Elements 1.0 to supervise this task from start to finish.