Besides, it's all about the music....such as it is. I was wondering if some music videos are available in 35 mm format. Specifically, the new BRYAN ADAMS video HERE I AM sung for the movie Cimarron - Spirit of the Stallion.
A few years ago, all theatres that were playing TITANIC in my city were given a 35 mm cinemascope feature of CELINE DION's My Heart Will Go On.
Is this BRYAN ADAMS' Here I Am available on 35mm and if so, whether it is recorded in digital sound and which one ?
Who would be the right person to contact in this regard ?
Thank You
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You may be able to get some of these music prints via the collectors' route, but unfortunately that doesn't answer the problem of having a company provide a steady stream of these music shorts. Even if you were able to locate the majority of the music shorts originally released by the company, you can't continually play the same dozen or so titles over and over.
The thing is, all the record companies make music videos for literally every record that they think will be a hit. I would think that if you were really determined to play these as shorts, you could approach the marketing departments at the record companies and try to get them to make 35mm prints available to you. Obviously it is to the record company's advantage to have as many people see their music video as possible; it's a marketing tool to sell CDs. Most of them are shot on film anyway, so it wouldn't be that much of a leap for the record company to strike a few 35mm prints for theatrical exposure. To convince them, you might first go to other exhibitors and get a group together who would promise to play the shorts if they were available in 35mm. This way the record company would have more of an incentive to strike prints (which for a 3 - 4 min. print can't be that expensive) -- with a group lined up, you can offer them a larger audience than just your own theatre.
Hell, you can list my theatres as a definate yes. I would play them in a second....as long as they are not rap or hip-hop or something called ska. Obviously it would have to be the more mainstream music. But put me down in the "yes I'll play it column."
Frank
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Josh
Josh is correct that most are transferred on a telecine (everything from 35mm to Super-8), either negative or reversal original, with digital editing and EFX (e.g. AVID, Final Cut Pro). Eventually, as HD "digital intermediate" becomes more commonplace, 35mm-quality "Music Videos" could be shown on theatre screens.
The Kodak website has quite a few articles about music videos. Just go to the website here and use the keyword "music video" in the "Search Motion Picture" tool.
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I am not a fan of watching video in a theatre, even if it is on film, but then again, MTV videos typically never hold a shot long enough or the camera steady enough for anyone to actually see much of anything. Besides, it's all about the music....such as it is.
Frank
For anything that requires intensive digital effects, though, the film-quality "digital intermediate" that John mentions might be more cost effective than optical work.