Pretty sure they didn't film the whole concert, so there's no chance of a full concert release. I believe disc 2 will feature more of the 'talking heads' and a few that didn't make it to the final cut... here's hoping a few more of the other fans they interviewed outside the arena will be immortalized too :)
Cant really imagine what could be on the second disc. Don't really know how much appetite there could be for lots more Sheffield vox pops. It was quite wonderfully self contained actually. Before I saw the film I was excited for the 2 discs but now I think just the film on a shiny disc would be perfect.
Yeah I hope so too :) In the interview that Florian did with Graham Walker of the Sheffield Star, he says that they are going to put more concert footage on the extras DVD/Blu Ray and that Jarvis wants the full thing released on a special DVD. :)
The audio for that is on a thread that Eamonn started on here if you fancy a listen.
It would be great to have the concert from start to finish. I'd love all the home movie stuff they showed whilst people were arriving, too, (it was very poignant), and the laser show. In fact, I'd like to relive the whole evening...
Pretty sure they didn't film the whole concert, so there's no chance of a full concert release. I believe disc 2 will feature more of the 'talking heads' and a few that didn't make it to the final cut... here's hoping a few more of the other fans they interviewed outside the arena will be immortalized too :)
Why do you think they didn't film the whole concert? Presumably if they were making a feature film they'd want the entire footage so they had a good selection to choose from for the film, regardless as to whether or not they intended to release the whole thing. Like, surely they'd never have all the cameras set up etc yet decide to only film 20 minutes of it, and just hope they got enough shots to use for the film.
Also, in the film there were clips from songs during all parts of the set (ie. Underwear, which was the third song, to Sheffield: Sex City which was during the encore, and loads of songs in between), which suggests they did record the whole thing.
Pretty sure they didn't film the whole concert, so there's no chance of a full concert release. I believe disc 2 will feature more of the 'talking heads' and a few that didn't make it to the final cut... here's hoping a few more of the other fans they interviewed outside the arena will be immortalized too :)
Why do you think they didn't film the whole concert? Presumably if they were making a feature film they'd want the entire footage so they had a good selection to choose from for the film, regardless as to whether or not they intended to release the whole thing. Like, surely they'd never have all the cameras set up etc yet decide to only film 20 minutes of it, and just hope they got enough shots to use for the film.
Also, in the film there were clips from songs during all parts of the set (ie. Underwear, which was the third song, to Sheffield: Sex City which was during the encore, and loads of songs in between), which suggests they did record the whole thing.
Well it's only speculation, but...
In order to film a full 2+ hour concert and edit it to a professional standard they would require several cameras and a lot of equipment/man-power, in order to allow a faster pace of editing. However, from viewing the film at the weekend I got the impression that this simply wasn't the case. There was a lot of uninterrupted single camera shots which lingered for several seconds at a time, such as someone's camera phone filming the stage, and Jarvis on the speakers during TIH. It may have been artistic choice, but it gave me the impression that they didn't have all that many cameras, and were just filming wherever and whenever possible, and there's an awful lot you can achieve with disparate footage in an edit suite. As you say, there was footage during Underwear and Sheffield: Sex City, but this doesn't necessarily follow that the whole show was recorded - they could have just chosen key songs.
Of course I could be wrong, but only Florian and co will know for sure exactly how much raw footage there is.
-- Edited by Pip on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 02:55:27 AM
Most important question is: is the DVD playable in multiple regions/are blu rays region coded. I want to preorder it but not if I won't even be able to play it because it's UK region.
God bless America etc etc. any other Americans on here asked about this yet? I guess I could find out from the vendor
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They had 2 cameras on stage and 2 in between the stage and barrier, they also had something in the central control thing And from watching the film I'd say they had some on the seating areas.
Most important question is: is the DVD playable in multiple regions/are blu rays region coded. I want to preorder it but not if I won't even be able to play it because it's UK region. God bless America etc etc. any other Americans on here asked about this yet? I guess I could find out from the vendor
Have you ever investigated the possibility of hacking your DVD player? I once wanted a La Femme Nikita box set that was only in region 1, and bit of internet research revealed a hack for the firmware of my model to make it multi-region, just by going through the menus in a non-obvious way. I assumed then that the manufacturers don't want to be making physically different machines for each region, so they just hide this setting away from the users.
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Pretty sure they didn't film the whole concert, so there's no chance of a full concert release. I believe disc 2 will feature more of the 'talking heads' and a few that didn't make it to the final cut... here's hoping a few more of the other fans they interviewed outside the arena will be immortalized too :)
Why do you think they didn't film the whole concert? Presumably if they were making a feature film they'd want the entire footage so they had a good selection to choose from for the film, regardless as to whether or not they intended to release the whole thing. Like, surely they'd never have all the cameras set up etc yet decide to only film 20 minutes of it, and just hope they got enough shots to use for the film.
Also, in the film there were clips from songs during all parts of the set (ie. Underwear, which was the third song, to Sheffield: Sex City which was during the encore, and loads of songs in between), which suggests they did record the whole thing.
Well it's only speculation, but...
In order to film a full 2+ hour concert and edit it to a professional standard they would require several cameras and a lot of equipment/man-power, in order to allow a faster pace of editing. However, from viewing the film at the weekend I got the impression that this simply wasn't the case. There was a lot of uninterrupted single camera shots which lingered for several seconds at a time, such as someone's camera phone filming the stage, and Jarvis on the speakers during TIH. It may have been artistic choice, but it gave me the impression that they didn't have all that many cameras, and were just filming wherever and whenever possible, and there's an awful lot you can achieve with disparate footage in an edit suite. As you say, there was footage during Underwear and Sheffield: Sex City, but this doesn't necessarily follow that the whole show was recorded - they could have just chosen key songs.
Of course I could be wrong, but only Florian and co will know for sure exactly how much raw footage there is.
-- Edited by Pip on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 02:55:27 AM
Yeah, I agree that there weren't many cameras- there seemed to be three maybe- one in the crowd and two on the stage. Despite this set up, I'm absolutely certain that they would have filmed the entire concert, even if they never intended to release the whole thing. It just won't look like BBC Glastonbury footage etc.
They had 2 cameras on stage and 2 in between the stage and barrier, they also had something in the central control thing And from watching the film I'd say they had some on the seating areas.
Most important question is: is the DVD playable in multiple regions/are blu rays region coded. I want to preorder it but not if I won't even be able to play it because it's UK region. God bless America etc etc. any other Americans on here asked about this yet? I guess I could find out from the vendor
It'd be rubbish if there's no US version released, I'm sure someone on here will upload an HD torrent of it for you though.