Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:26:00 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was Sith andbefore At 01:14 PM 6/16/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote: >Kubrick made very effective use of silence. Yep. They are doing well with that on the new Battlestar Gallactica too...as well as giving you a better feel for how big space really is with those long zoom-in shots of the Gallactica. You know the think is really huge...and then you see a starscape or nebula with a tiny dot on it, then it zooms in and you realize that the tiny dot is that huge spaceship and your scale meter pegs... -- Mike B. -- When "wide open spaces" brings parking to mind, go ahead and die.