Legends of Flight (2010)

Director:

Stephen Low

Release Date:

15 June 2011 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

LEGENDS OF FLIGHT is a film that will not only delight and entertain the aviation enthusiast but also...

Plot Keywords:

Aviation | Airplane | Airbus A380 | Boeing | Airplane Manufacturer

Directed by
Stephen Low

Produced by
Jan Baird	....	executive producer
Robert Kresser	....	executive producer
Stephen Low	....	producer
Pietro L. Serapiglia	....	producer

Original Music by
Michel Cusson

Cinematography by
William Reeve

Production Management
Michel Chauvin	....	production manager
Jill Kasian	....	post-production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fabrice Barrilliet	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Amanda Rosbrook	....	dressing props

Sound Department
Steven Bechtold	....	additional sound: Seattle
Michel B. Bordeleau	....	supervising sound editor
Jenna Dalla Riva	....	foley recording assistant
Ed Douglas	....	sound editor
Ed Douglas	....	sound re-recording mixer
Keith Elliott	....	sound re-recording mixer
Marc Gagnon	....	sound effects editor
Andy Malcolm	....	foley artist
Cory Mandel	....	sound re-recording mixer
Thierry Morlaas-Lurbe	....	sound recordist
Kyle Peters	....	narration recording engineer
Kyle Switzer	....	sound editor
Peter Thillaye	....	supervising sound editor
Lan Tran	....	assistant sound editor

Visual Effects by
Marie-Eve Bedard-Tremblay	....	visual effects coordinator
Benoit Blouin	....	digital effects artist
Carl Gagnon	....	lead modeler
Chris Kroitor	....	digital production supervisor
Jonathan Laborde	....	digital effects artist
Bruno-Olivier Laflamme	....	digital effects artist
Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput	....	visual effects artist
Guillaume Mainville	....	digital effects artist
Mario Rachiele	....	visual effects supervisor
David Raymond	....	visual effects artist
Craig Edward Rogers Jr.	....	digital compositor
Craig Edward Rogers Jr.	....	film recording
Fabrice Vienne	....	animator
Yanick Wilisky	....	visual effects producer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Keith Bronsdon	....	camera assistant
Jonathan Faber	....	loader
Cyril Girard	....	electrician
Francis Hanneman	....	assistant camera
Michael LePard	....	set lighting technician
Ralph Mendoza	....	aerial director of photography: SpaceCam
Dylan Reade	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Mathieu Barbeau	....	post-production assistant
Jorge Zavagno	....	post-production assistant

Music Department
François Arbour	....	score mixer
François Arbour	....	score recording engineer
Kim Gaboury	....	electronic music arranger
Hugo Mayrand	....	orchestrator

Other crew
Michael Barnes	....	financial legal services
Andre Gaudry	....	location manager
Charles Heaphy	....	production financing
Christine B. Picard	....	production coordinator
Christine Rogers	....	production coordinator
Barbara Terzieff	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• K2 Communications
• Stephen Low Productions

Distributors

• D3D Cinema (2011) (worldwide) (theatrical)
• La Géode (2011) (France) (theatrical)
• Stephen Low Distribution (2008) (Canada) (theatrical)
• K2 Communications (2008) (worldwide) (all media)

Special Effects

• Oblique FX (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera cranes
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Cinepool  grip and lighting equipment

Also Known As:

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.44 : 1

Sound Mix:

Sonics-DDP

Certification:

South Korea:All | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Company:

K2 Communications

A Few Cool Shots, But Otherwise A Wasted Opportunity

I'm an aviation nut, a real airplane aficionado, and a student pilot. So, naturally, I'm looking forward to this IMAX film with great expectations. And, because of my addiction to airplanes and anything airplane related, probably had a higher level of expectation than normal. I'm an IMAX card holder so I watched this at a pre-screening event and didn't pay anything to see it. And going into the movie, I really wanted to like this film, because it's about airplanes, it's IMAX, it's Canadian. Unfortunately, it really failed to deliver on anything except two or three great scenes involving the 787 Dreamliner and a Harrier Jet. The rest of the film involved some mildly interesting shots of the Boeing manufacturing facility, but that was it.

By far my biggest complaint about this film is that Stephen Low relied far, far, far too heavily on computer-generated birds and airplanes. Why do some directors insist on replacing perfectly good objects in real life (birds, airplanes) with computer graphics? One scene involved a bi-plane that actually looked real . . . until the thing did a barrel roll in a most unnatural way. You have to see it to know what I mean. Why? Why do this? Why make entire scenes look like something out of Flight Simulator X? And why keep using CAD-style birds and bees? Not to mention one painful scene involving a "fly-through" of a computer rendering that looks like Tron on acid.

IMAX directors also have to get rid of the cheese factor. For example, why does Low set up the people in the film to "act"? He films them supposedly working away in one scene in a boardroom discussing something, but you can tell from their dialogue that they're acting. And really poorly acting. If this is a documentary type film, which it is, why have goofy acting segments? Another example of cheese: trying to work in (computer generated) fighter jets flying 20 feet from a Canadian warship. Not gonna happen!

Finally, the film is entitled "Legends of Flight" but I can't figure out what the "legend" is. What legend? Low could've started with the legend of Icarus and the dreams of Da Vinci, but he doesn't. The entire "legend" is the manufacture of one airplane. The story is barely coherent with unrelated scenes jammed together. All in all, a wasted opportunity. The only 10% of this film that I enjoyed was the widescreen shots of the A380 and the 787.