Quote from: Biomechanoid on Dec 29, 2017, 04:39:51 AM
Quote from: Gash on Dec 29, 2017, 04:25:35 AM
Remember they used child actors in ALIEN to add extra scale
But that first image, that adult would be roughly the equivalent size of a child.
Quote from: Gash on Dec 29, 2017, 04:25:35 AM
and any shots of set shots of Giger working on the Jockey show that it was already pretty huge..
On screen canon scale cannot be judged by behind the scenes on set photos. Technicians and artists are not required to be in scale with the sets they are working on. If you're going to judge it by that, then model makers who build entire cities, by your logic the makers must be 100 foot tall giants.
What? Where is that
my logic? There a set photos that show the true scale of the Jockey as Giger is working on it. It's big. They chose to use child actors to make it look yet bigger -
that is the point. I'm not saying the Derelict is only ten feet big because the model is ten feet big - I'm fully aware of scale models and forced perspective and every other trick in the film making book.
They wanted the Jockey to look as big as possible, by making it big and then using child actors to make it look twice as big again. The crew member standing next to the suited Engineer might look child sized compared to him, but he'd have to actually be a child for the scales to come close to matching ALIEN.
Close up views of Skerrit and Cartwright don't reveal much in terms of scale. And as Crazy Shrimps pictures above show, the original Jockey could cradle Giger (Scott, Van Lint, anyone) like a baby. I'm not critical of Prometheus, it's a different, less ancient ship so any explanation could cover why there are differences, but there's the facts.