Designing the Computer UIs In Movies 371
xandroid points out an NPR interview with Mark Coleran, who
"...designs the fancy-but-fake graphics that flash across computers in the movies. He has worked on a laundry list of blockbusters: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, Mission Impossible III, and many more. He says a lot of the inspiration for computer screens comes from video games." The main point of these fake movie UIs is different than that of real UIs: to tell a story very quickly, not to reveal and enable function.
Clever girl (Score:5, Funny)
Does he also make those fancy monitors that project what is on the screen out into the room and onto any passing dinosaur?
Re:Clever girl (Score:3, Funny)
And his brother is the guy who makes every moving car which rear ends a parked car go up in the air.
It's as simple as Ninnle! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Clever girl (Score:2, Funny)
Actually his brother is responsible for the 'override password' backdoor into every FBI/NSA computer system.
Press to hack (Score:1, Funny)
Hacking 0%
Hacking 25%
Hacking 50%
Hacking 75%
Hack complete!
Hackers vs. Sneakers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:People who think fake UIs are real. (Score:4, Funny)
"Yep, It's actually an in-joke for nerds like me"
"What does it say?!"
"It tells me when someone can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality."
Re:Story? (Score:5, Funny)
Everything in a movie is just a "crutch" to keep the story going forward.
Well for those movies that have stories. In some everything is a "crutch" to enable them to show off pretty CGI, and in others everything is a "crutch" to enable to show off various body parts of the cast.
Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... (Score:4, Funny)
My sister took a photo of a bald eagle with her cellphone. She mailed it to me and asked if I could "enhance it" for her.
If she hadn't told me what it was I'd have had no idea what I was even looking at. Damn you CSI. Damn you.
Jurassic xterms (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Narrative Causality"... (Score:3, Funny)
a friend of mine tried typing the way they did in swordfish. Jammed all his fingers in about 10 seconds.
Re:Clever girl (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Clever girl (Score:5, Funny)
You aren't Vin Diesel.
Unless he's on slashdot. Are you reading this, Vin?
Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... (Score:3, Funny)
ENHANCE the number plate! [nuk3.com]
Re:Not to blame (Score:2, Funny)
I still wanna sue movies for giving me unremovable fantasies about 3-breasted green babes.
Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... (Score:5, Funny)
You should have found a similar perspective eagle picture online, 'enhanced' it with GIMP/PS to make it as close as possible to what she shot, and send it back at a minimum 1024 res and high color, thereby perpetuating the myth that you are indeed a Computer God.
Kids these days, can't see opportunity even when it's smacking 'em in the face...
Re:Clever girl (Score:3, Funny)
Reading Slashdot won't make that ugly bastard look like me! -- Brad
Re:Clever girl (Score:4, Funny)
Uncrop. [youtube.com]
Re:Clever girl (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Clever girl (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Clever girl (Score:2, Funny)
Yes.
(I had to reply because I rolled a 2 on my anonymity check.)
Re:Clever girl (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to . . .enhance.
Cordelia: Look! Right there, zoom in on that.
Xander: It's a videotape.
Cordelia: So? They do it on television all the time.
Xander: Not with a regular VCR they don't.
[...]
Oz: What's that? Pause it.
Xander: Guys! It's just a normal VCR. It doesn't... Oh wait, uh, it can do pause.
Re:"Narrative Causality"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed. Canada + US == entire world.