Barbie and Openhimer Case Study

  Name of film and year it was released

Barbie released 2023 

- director of each film 

Greta Gerwig 

- did the directors choose digital or film to shoot these? 

digital camera

- what SFX / CGI was used in these films? 

no CGI was used in Barbie 

- what practical effects were used in the making of these films

using conveyor belt tools to create the illusion of motion and building sets by hand giving the movie a theatrical and old-school filming style.

- a quote or interesting fact about the making of these films 

" Barbie took distortion to a whole new level"

- how well have each of these films done in Box Office earnings? 

1.340 billion

- what have rotten tomatoes reviews been for these? 

Gerwig didn’t just make a great movie; it’s something that will buckle the knees and tug hard on the heartstrings for generations of viewers. This is the work of a marvelous filmmaker who knows exactly what she is and wants to do.








- Name of film and year it was released

Oppenheimer released 2023

- director of each film 

Christopher Nolan 

- did the directors choose digital or film to shoot these? 

IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large-format film

- what SFX / CGI was used in these films? 

 no CGI or SFX was used in the film, as Nolan felt it was "playing to safe".

- what practical effects were used in the making of these films

the explosion was achieved by shooting real explosions and smoke, and then layering the filmed elements through digital compositing.

- a quote or interesting fact about the making of these films 

due to the film being shot with the IMAX, Cillian Murphey said " its more like and experience rather than film, its like watching a #D film without the glasses". 

- how well have each of these films done in Box Office earnings? 

788 million worldwide and 300 million domestically

- what have rotten tomatoes reviews been for these?

Every scene feels like a cataclysm waiting to happen, fitting for a film that builds, step-by-step, to the creation of a cataclysm machine. Oppenheimer both summons awe for what it took to build the bomb and for the changes it wrought.



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