The style of camerawork, lighting design and GUI overlays currently being considered lend the film an almost archival quality. The images will feel very immediate, very real, as if found in some dusty vault a hundred years from now.
This means that the barrier between spectators and spectacle will be very shallow. They will pick up on anything within the story universe that doesn't ring absolutely, 100% true.
Therefore the production design, in particular any future technology (e.g. the RIG, nanobats, wearable screens, etc.), will have to be very carefully realised to avoid raising any questions from the audience. They will have to believe that not only might things be designed this way in the future, but that they couldn't, in fact, have been designed any other way.
Posted by ken at August 27, 2004 05:29 PM