Computer Generated UFO

I like the idea, but obviously it would have to be 30 years + on from the
original series. It would mean that there would have to be some changes in
the storyline eg. Technology changes, character changes etc for SHADO.

Having said that, a new UFO series boils down to money. The use of
computer graphics for such a series depends on the success of the computer
generated Captain Scarlet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Lazenby" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Computer Generated UFO


> I like the idea, but obviously it would have to be 30 years + on from the
> original series. It would mean that there would have to be some changes
in
> the storyline eg. Technology changes, character changes etc for SHADO.
>


I think the show could work well as an "expose" of the war once fought
in the past against the aliens, but the world never knew about at the time.
It could still be set in the past, but done in the past tense, kind of
like heralding the exploits of the brave men and women who defended us in
the secret war against the aliens.
We won the war, supposedly, & now after the security concerns have
lapsed, the story comes out....


Dave H.

Interesting thought. Sort of a "You are there..." type "History" show. But then how would you handle the interviews with the SHADO survivers? You would have to find actors who looked like the originals if you were going to have them play themselves.
Still this is something that could work.

davrecon <[hidden email]> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Lazenby"
To:
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Computer Generated UFO


> I like the idea, but obviously it would have to be 30 years + on from the
> original series. It would mean that there would have to be some changes
in
> the storyline eg. Technology changes, character changes etc for SHADO.
>


I think the show could work well as an "expose" of the war once fought
in the past against the aliens, but the world never knew about at the time.
It could still be set in the past, but done in the past tense, kind of
like heralding the exploits of the brave men and women who defended us in
the secret war against the aliens.
We won the war, supposedly, & now after the security concerns have
lapsed, the story comes out....


Dave H.





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We don't really have to go through all that. I'm just talking about
making a series based in the past, kind of like "Rat Patrol" or something.
We don't have to do interviews or anything. But finding actors close enough
in appearence and attitude to the originals would be the biggest problem.
Too bad they don't yet have virtual actors perfected yet (ala Final
Fantasy), then it would be simpler to simply hire back all the old actors
for their voices. That way they could get some easy work out of it, and get
a piece of the royalty action as well....

Dave H.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Thomas" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Computer Generated UFO


> Interesting thought. Sort of a "You are there..." type "History" show. But
then how would you handle the interviews with the SHADO survivers? You would
have to find actors who looked like the originals if you were going to have
them play themselves.

" Too bad they don't yet have virtual actors perfected yet (ala Final
Fantasy), then it would be simpler to simply hire back all the old actors
for their voices. That way they could get some easy work out of it, and get
a piece of the royalty action as well...."

I don't know if I'm crazy or what but I thought I read or heard some time
ago that with special sound equipment, actors can re-dub their voices for
old movies or whatever when they are being re-mastered and the sound
equipment can "sweeten" their voices tot he point where they sound they way
they did 20-30 yrs ago instead of sounding gravelly as age sometimes
causes....

Pam

--- In [hidden email], "davrecon" <davrecon@n...> wrote:
> ... I'm just talking about making a series based in the past, kind
> of like "Rat Patrol" or something. ...

What was "Rat Patrol"?

An old series from the 60s..about WW2.

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "anthonyappleyard" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: Computer Generated UFO


> --- In [hidden email], "davrecon" <davrecon@n...> wrote:
> > ... I'm just talking about making a series based in the past, kind
> > of like "Rat Patrol" or something. ...
>
> What was "Rat Patrol"?

--- In [hidden email], "davrecon" <davrecon@n...> wrote:
> We don't really have to go through all that. I'm just talking
about
> making a series based in the past, kind of like "Rat Patrol" or
something.
> We don't have to do interviews or anything. But finding actors
close enough
> in appearence and attitude to the originals would be the biggest
problem.
> Too bad they don't yet have virtual actors perfected yet (ala
Final
> Fantasy), then it would be simpler to simply hire back all the old
actors
> for their voices. That way they could get some easy work out of
it, and get
> a piece of the royalty action as well....

As I recall, several months ago we discussed making new episodes of
UFO using computer animation exclusively. The conclusion back then
was that perfecting computer animation so that you can't tell if it
is real or computer generated, is years and years away. Perhaps
convincing facial expressions would be the most difficult part.
And for the voices, as others have pointed out, the voice of an
actor 30 years later is very different. Just think about how Ed
Bishop sounds in his commenatry of Subsmash. But I guess computer
sound engineering at some point in the future will be able to fix
that as well.

Last thing, to make the series "look and feel" as close as possible
to the real thing, someone would need to hire the old writers and
old directors ASAP (before they are gone) to capture how the
episodes should be made in the future.

David Levine