Like many people, I was wowed by the realspace titles in Fincher’s Panic Room. I began actively watchig for them in this AskMeFi post of a few months ago, which traces them back to North by Northwest. I’ve become relatively accustomed to them, so that I was startled when this establishing shot (or whatever they’re called) turned out to be not in realspace:
I was also startled that the software to do this automatically came out after bullet time became pervasive. Commentary on the technique: “Something’s coming,” it seems to say. “And it ain’t gonna be fun.” Except it was.
By the way, yes, it is extremely marvelous to be able to hit the ‘s’ key and have a full-resolution movie-file/DVD screeshot written to disk. Except, um, I’m not sure those DVDs are out yet — so I should note I got the screenshot from my good friend SWIM.
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I was startled when this establishing shot (or whatever they’re called) turned out to be not in realspace:
I mean — hmm. I don’t know how to say that better. I thought they were digital titles that were pretending to be in the scene. It turns out they were physical letters on a post.