The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Did u notice that Legolas's eye colour changes in the movie!

mark12_30 · 12-31-2002, 08:44 AM

This whole eye-color question keeps popping up, also with Elijah Wood. The answer, or at least a very significan tpart of it, is in the Extended Version DVD set in the third or fourth DVD. THey show the scene being edited from daytime color to nighttime color. <P>Ayone who has ever messed around on a photoeditor on a computer has some experience with this-- you change the brightness, the intensity and the contrast, using the mouse or by entering numbers. Or, you can go directly to the UNIX method and edit Red, Green, and Blue. Either way, you make the entire scene darker or lighter. You can see them doing this on the S. E. DVD, in one of the special-effects clips. Hence, day turns to night, and Elijah Wood's eyes come out looking... Different! Bluish-purple, or greeny-blue, or midnight-blue, or ... some other wild color. Observers accuse him of wearing colored contact lenses, or having his eyes "digitally enhanced"; and he vehemently denies it (listen to the Actor's commentary) because as far as he knows, he's innocent of all wrongdoing! His contacts are **clear**, and he doesn't pay anybody to make his eyes look like something they're not.<P>The fact is, the Whole Scene WAS digitally enhanced. I'm betting that the actors' eyes are just a by-product. That's what happens when you turn afternoon into midnight, or noon into twilight.

12-31-2002, 08:44 AM	#11
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	This whole eye-color question keeps popping up, also with Elijah Wood. The answer, or at least a very significan tpart of it, is in the Extended Version DVD set in the third or fourth DVD. THey show the scene being edited from daytime color to nighttime color. <P>Ayone who has ever messed around on a photoeditor on a computer has some experience with this-- you change the brightness, the intensity and the contrast, using the mouse or by entering numbers. Or, you can go directly to the UNIX method and edit Red, Green, and Blue. Either way, you make the entire scene darker or lighter. You can see them doing this on the S. E. DVD, in one of the special-effects clips. Hence, day turns to night, and Elijah Wood's eyes come out looking... Different! Bluish-purple, or greeny-blue, or midnight-blue, or ... some other wild color. Observers accuse him of wearing colored contact lenses, or having his eyes "digitally enhanced"; and he vehemently denies it (listen to the Actor's commentary) because as far as he knows, he's innocent of all wrongdoing! His contacts are clear, and he doesn't pay anybody to make his eyes look like something they're not.<P>The fact is, the Whole Scene WAS digitally enhanced. I'm betting that the actors' eyes are just a by-product. That's what happens when you turn afternoon into midnight, or noon into twilight. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.