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Author Topic: Why Doesn't Video Look Like Film???? Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-17-2002 11:51 PM                        There is alot to ponder here, but when all is said and done, you can foget all the technical nuances and go right past the display method and to the human who is watching it -- for whatever reason, we LIKE the look of film better than video. Maybe it's because we are organic and so is film, maybe it's because we grew up expecting more exciting stories and images when we were in a theatre than when we watched live television with its obviously limited production values and stars. The hard fact is, that today, every one of the top Emmy, Golden Globe, People's Choice, etc., winning dramas are shot on FILM. Rather telling when you consider that they are being produced from beginning to their intended final display, in the video domain. Why wouldn't the producers of NYPD BlUE, THE PRACTICE, THE WEST WING, BOSTON PUBLIC, JUDGING AMY....well, you get the picture -- and it's on FILM -- why would they all be shot in the video domain? You can talk all you want about frame rates and interlace and pixals, etc., but it is *us* -- we just like the look of film. We relate to it, we would rather see it than original video. Yes video has no jitter; yes it's rock steady -- maybe that is precisely why we prefer film instead of it -- because the images our eyes see in real life are rarely rock-steady...rock-steady might even seem to us as unnatural. I am sure somewhere down the line someone will do a really interesting doctoral thesis explaining exactly why we want our movies to look like film, with all its flaws, but until then, the reality is *we do* and none of the improvements in video capture, storage or display that have been made in the last few decades seems to have changed that. When we begin seeing these top programs being created and displayed in the video domain (and I am not saying it will not happen), film will trounce video every time.  |  IP: Logged Heyward Garner Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 01-18-2002 12:42 AM                     Joe, the guy "stephenvv" needs to get his aspect right. 1 : 1.85, that's a hell of a trick.  |  IP: Logged Heyward Garner Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 01-18-2002 12:53 AM                     Also, in conjunction with your second post on the DV forum... I concur entirely. My eye begins to twitch in random spasms should I see bad film in my theatre. On the extremely unfortunate side, I have to work for a corporation who doesn't give a damn about my equipment or me, for that matter. So sometimes shit happens. I am sure I am at fault for some of it, but who's to say for sure. I know that I take up for any damaged or scratched anything that leaves my theatre...  |  IP: Logged

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