Thanks for the link. I particularly enjoyed the comment listing "Easter eggs" in the video:
Jon Batiste is dressed in white in the gondola in 0:35,
Stay Human are in the other gondola in 0:37,
*in the show the gondola would have "Jon Batiste" "& Stay Human" written on top *
at 0:41, Steven Colbert is Bullfighting the cars(?)
at 0:46, Giant Steven and Giant Jon are jamming on the skyscraper, (imagine them sitting on the green bench)
at 0:59, Giant Steven and Giant Jon playing basketball, (see the blue door on the right hand side)
at 1:27 Stephen does the table cloth pulling magic trick around middle right of the frame (thanks +Sebastian Spielvogl),
at 2:03, Giant Steven is being patriotic,
at 2:09, you see Steven (in blue suit) walking down the stairs to the rooftop party near the top center,
in which Jon Batiste and Stay Human are playing (see the tuba and the drummer's hat) at 2:11.
I couldn't find a couple of these, some I'd noticed already, but Stephen bullfighting the cars and doing the tablecloth pulling magic trick were new ones for me. I'm going to look for those in the abbreviated version of the intro they use in the show.
I've been curious about the production of the intro -- some is real footage, but much of it looks like miniatures, and I wonder if it's all CGI like the Game of Thrones intro. I looked around and didn't find an answer to that, but I did find this interesting analysis of the intro.
https://theouttake.net/the-new-late-show-opening-is-amazzzziiinnngggg-c5de0cfa84a8#.ggxxrjoix
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LucusNon
9 years ago
much of it looks like miniatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking
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justwrite3
9 years ago
Yeah, I understand that there are various techniques used to simulate miniatures, including tilt-shift photography. You can also do the same thing completely digitally, like was done in the Lego Movie.
What I'm curious about is what techniques were actually used for the Late Show intro. The shots under the Brooklyn bridge and moving into the Ed Sullivan theater are stop-motion and have a completely different look from the rest of it. They obviously didn't film stuff like Colbert making a lob pass to Batiste from one building to another, so that's CGI.
They were able to put together a Paris intro after the terrorist attack there, and that one looks like actually photography that uses stop-motion and tilt shift (other than the Hugo-style shot moving through the face of the clock tower). The regular New York intro has a different look for most of it, which makes me think it's CGI.
I mentioned the Game of Thrones intro. While it doesn't incorporate the stop-motion effect, it also looks like miniatures but was done completely digitally. It's realistic enough that, until I found out it was CGI, I thought they had built an incredibly complex set with all the engineered city representations.
The Late Show intro is well done and quite interesting visually. It would just help satisfy my curiosity if I knew more about how they created it.
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BBaller151
9 years ago
Only thing that annoys me about the opening is that all they do is repeat exactly what he just said at the end of the monologue. At least with Conan ie, it is the opening of the show that they announce the guests and then the monologue and then he announces the guests again. Wish they would do something like that here.
We accidentally replaced your heart with a baked potato. You have about three seconds to live.
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