Today I posted my first discussion, and boy, was it a disaster! lol I've never really posted a discussion before and thought today i'd take the plunge, well I couldn't have made more of a dick of myself if I really tried! So I'm trying to put that behind me, expunge the whole experience from my memory and do what the discussion board is actually for- starting a discussion. So, with that in mind, what do we feel about the 'death' of celluloid? and the virus like birth of digital? Will it REALLY change how we view feature films, film them and, obviously, edit them. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I'm torn. I understand it's technically 'better' to film in digital, but the old school romantic in me really likes the idea of 'proper' film. Thoughts? And God help me if I've stuffed it up again, you may never hear another word out of me for the next fifty years!
Producing : Aa apology and a genuine discussion topic. by Gary O'Toole
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Gary. Don't Sweat the small stuff. You hit on some damn good differences here. It is difficult to choose on these differences and placing them in todays market. Everything changes fast including Cameras. So what I see here is your getting the Creative Juices flowing. Good Job. T
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Gary, I can't figure out why you're apologizing. If you posted something which didn't interest people, it's not a 'death penalty' case. They'll just ignore it. (Assuming you were brief), no harm, no foul. As for digital replacing film, frankly, I don't find it to be a big deal in terms of the quality of story telling rendered. As with the history of photography, it isn't so much the changes in technology but what individual images a particular photographer chose to capture. Did those images move people who looked at them? And did the particular photographer take advantage of the new technology to capture the images in superior fashion? To paraphrase a line from 'Field of Dreams', 'If you tell it (well), they will come.'
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Film forces stops you from being lazy. Digital has just shifted where your budget is placed--from in front of the lens to post production hack fix-its. Put as much as you can of your budget in front of the camera is my recommendation to all and ensure you plan, plan, plan! your production.
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And in fact, I would add, have A, B, C, and D plans ready.