Digital Effects Bring Middle Ages to Life in New Shakespeare Film

Digital Effects Bring Middle Ages to Life in New Shakespeare Film: Independent filmmaker Peter Babakitis recreates the Hundred Years War in William Shakespeares Henry V.

(PRWEB) January 28, 2004 --We only know of life in the Middle Ages from accounts, paintings and the few things they left behind," explains Mr. Babakitis, I decided to base the visual style of Henry V on the paintings of the 15th Century-Van der Weyden, Bosch, Van Eyck, Fouquet. I felt that these characters in Shakespeares play are somehow trapped within their history, and I think that Shakespeare felt this way about them. The new digital technology allows me to compose my scenes as the medieval painters did, using objects as graphic elements, altering space and time and implying a kind of everpresent supernatural element."

Digital technology came to Mr. Babakitiss aid again for complex action sequences: Digital cameras allowed us to cover the fights and action from many angles in a very spontaneous way. We had hundreds of reenactors at times, and my feeling about the battles was that it ought to look like CNN coverage of all the wars that go on today, with all the chaotic, unplanned shocks that appear in real documentary footage of the so-called 'embedded video journalists. I wanted there to be a sharp contrast between the planned, contained world of the royal courts, and the nightmarish mayhem of the military campaigns." William Shakespeares Henry V is due to be released this spring by Sumless Treasuries Releasing.
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