The Hobbit

As we get closer and closer to december 16th, all i hear about these days is The Hobbit. It seems that the day this movie comes out Park is going to explode with excited film students ready for the next installment of JRR Tolkiens saga. All throughout production, the crew has been releasing progress video's, showing each step of the process in making this behemoth of a production. As someone who is extremely interested in this as a career path, these video's are like crack to me. In these video's they show a lot. They don't show to much of anything actually finished but they show almost every specific department working. This was incredible. I loved watching the entire crew work. It really made me appreciate all of the work that is going into this film. There are so many people working on this, it is incredible. However there is one thing that bother's me about these videos. A lot of the shots that they show being shot, are done on green screens or done with motion capture technology. I did not mind the fact that they have been using green screen's or mocap technology until i had seen some of the actual scenes. Granted i have not seen much yet because most of the scenes are being held until the actual film comes out but of the scenes i have seen so far, a lot of it looks fake. Now i know this is a fictional universe where there are lots of things that don't actually exist but there are still parts of it that i am not entirely sure about it. I am still planning on seeing the film and i am extremely excited for it but i am a bit worried that in this day and age of hyped up 3D technology and other weird gimmicks coming out with every new film, i am worried about what The Hobbit is going to look like. Hopefully i am not disappointed.