InterBEE REVIEW2011 (EN)

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13 At the Inter BEE Content Forum Special Session “Unlimited potential of movie production and its future,” which was held on November 16th, 2011, Mr. Edwards noted that one of the benefits of introducing digital technology is “that it has become possible to make sophisti-cated VFX movies on a low budget.” He pointed out that “producing a movie at a low budget reduces the (investment) recovery risk. This means that you can employ trial and error on-site when producing a movie, resulting in more interesting styles.” The comment under-lines Mr. Edwards’ confidence, which is backed by his filmmaking experience thus far, but it also reflects his hunger for tech-nologies to generate new visual imagery. Gareth Edwards was born in 1975, and he says that seeing the Star Wars series as a child inspired him to become a movie director. He admired movie directors from that time on, and in 1996 he and an associate made a movie for his graduation thesis by combining CG and live-action footage. Filmmaking that took advantage of personal computers, which were – still machines with low capability, was rare then. According to Mr. Edwards, “It was at that point that I realized computers would be vital to the future of filmmaking.” After graduating from university, Mr. Edwards worked at home while teach-ing himself CG production in his spare time. A VFX piece he created that used live-action footage and CG of monsters led to a call from the BBC asking him to do VFX for television programs, and he began working on VFX production for dramas and documentaries. “Initially, the broadcasting industry associated CG with high costs. It was largely unknown that it was possible to work on CG images at home, like I was doing.”Admiration for the director of the Star Wars movie series

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