Yeah, I did like that teleporting effect, pretty cool. Although the ice creams
My same reaction.
And is there a reason why they can't just use the same camera/settings that the folks that made the sentai footage used? The switch between the footages is super apparent lol.
No reason. Both Shinkenger and Samurai/Super Samurai used the same cameras (the RED cameras), and that made both the footage and new stuff look good together (although the colors were still a bit off, mostly because the footage went from a quarry with grey rocks in Japan to a quarry with dark grey rocks in New Zealand).
But they dropped the RED cameras for Megaforce, using the Filmscape Arri Alexa and Ultraprimes instead. Who knows why, but I could tell now where Megaforce footage ends and Goseiger begins, especially when the suits suddenly start getting a bigger contrast in the grooves and the color balance of the footage turns into a different hue.
Ah yes, that really stood out - I guess they just shoot in slightly cleaner quality over here, or they just got LQ footage for integration...
MMPR Productions and Toei shoot things differently. Saban's crew like to use effects like depth of blur to make the background soft, as well as reducing whiteout to make the sky blue with clouds instead of being all-white like in the Sentai (at the expensive of having dull colors and low brightness); while Toei likes to use lighting techniques that make the suits shiny and cranking up color to the max at the expense of whiteout levels.
Here's what I mean, using Shinkenger vs. Go-Onger and Clash of the Red Rangers as an example:
Toei also sends out terrible quality masters to them. They've done this with every show since MMPR (and was almost laughable in the early Disney shows like Dino Thunder and SPD, where the white sky was chuck-full of grain, while being squeaky clean on the original masters), but figuring as the Shinkenger footage in S/SS looked great; I was disappointed to see the Goseiger footage look so bad in Megaforce.
Anyway, behind the scenes, both shows look the same.
Here's a set photo of Megaforce, and
here's one of....Dekaranger?
