Amiga in the movies

[Pyromania]

Amiga 1000 (as seen in Miami Vice s3 e11). Kinda' like seeing the same newspaper over and over again in tv shows/movies or the same shirt.

Yea, I'm leaning towards giving him a Amiga 1000. I have five or six of them but more important it should be recognizable.

[paul1981]

I think it should be an A600. Do you have any of those? I don't think an A600 has ever been in a film before. It will catch the eye today because of it's cute size, and it's white, and it still looks modern-ish to me despite being 21 years old!
Do you know if the computer will be turned on or not? If so, then we need to think about what program it will be running as well.

[Mrs Beanbag]

I don't think an A600 has ever been in a film before.

I don't know but it's definitely been on television. See this post #142 on EAB:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=8307&page=4

[hishamk]

Amiga 1000 (as seen in Miami Vice s3 e11). Kinda' like seeing the same newspaper over and over again in tv shows/movies or the same shirt.

Notice how the Amiga badge is taped over, which, I would guess, means that Commodore did not pay for product placement, rather that the production designers or someone on the crew wanted an Amiga on the set regardless.

[psxphill]

Notice how the Amiga badge is taped over, which, I would guess, means that Commodore did not pay for product placement, rather that the production designers or someone on the crew wanted an Amiga on the set regardless.

The Amiga was probably genlocked to the camera to avoid flicker, it was probably the cheapest way of doing it at the time.

[Mrs Beanbag]

Plus the preferences screen is suitably complex and technical looking without being instantly recognisable to most people.

[Ral-Clan]

The Amiga was probably genlocked to the camera to avoid flicker, it was probably the cheapest way of doing it at the time.

That's a really good theory (makes sense) - but weren't most 1980s shows still using film cameras (i.e. Panavision)?  I know Star Trek TNG was all filmed using Panavision cameras, although the visual effects were later edited on video.

[Mrs Beanbag]

In a documentary I saw about the making of Battlestar Galactica (the 1978 one not the modern one) they mention the trouble they had syncing the on-set monitors to the cameras so I guess not. Or at least it doesn't necessarily solve the problem.

[psxphill]

That's a really good theory (makes sense) - but weren't most 1980s shows still using film cameras (i.e. Panavision)? I know Star Trek TNG was all filmed using Panavision cameras, although the visual effects were later edited on video.

Film cameras are affected as well. You often see "24-frame video playback" in movie credits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync_box_(filmmaking)
 
It would be interesting whether movies had Amiga's generating the displays in the late 80's and early 90's, or whether they used custom hardware. It would certainly be cheaper to just have an A500 and some extra circuitry. Although FMV would be a problem.
 
Running at 24fps might have been a problem until ECS though.
 
Some episodes of Miami Vice appear to have been shot using film.
 
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZH3SyNsCj_EC&pg=PT41&lpg=PT41&dq=miami+vice+filmed+on+video+tape&source=bl&ots=GeM9tc2Kvc&sig=cUB6SEzEtFfXOvnkAVBJ1OsYTcE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7YQBUeehCoaG0AX20IDgDA&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCQ

[weirdami]

Yea, I'm leaning towards giving him a Amiga 1000. I have five or six of them but more important it should be recognizable.

It should be one with the expansion bezel falling off.

[TjLaZer]

Notice how the Amiga badge is taped over, which, I would guess, means that Commodore did not pay for product placement, rather that the production designers or someone on the crew wanted an Amiga on the set regardless.

Kinda like whenever we see a Apple Laptop in movies today with the Apple Logo covered up with a sticker or taped off!!  LOL  I can always spot the Apple laptops.