Sounds like Robert Rodriguez. Dork. [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img]
Q. So, you have no love for film?
A. There's nothing to love about film. It's a terrible medium. It's just that we're used to it. [img]mad.gif[/img]
p.s. If you love this quiote you'll love what he said about super 8!
Sounds like Robert Rodriguez. Dork. [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img]
Gotta be Rodriguez.
Did any of you read that assinine interview with him a few months back in Amer. Cinematographer?
He was going on and on about how much better HD was, and offering some of the most idiotic reasons why.
Here's one:
He said that until he was editing Spy Kids 2 on HD, he never realized that Antonio Bandera's eyes were black, so the film must have been rendering it wrong.
Well, this makes no sense for a couple reasons;
A. He actually knows the guy personally, and has shot a couple movies with him, so he's spent like probably about 1,000 hours staring at the guys ACTUAL EYEBALLS from 3-6 feet away. If he can't remember what color the guys eyes are, it has nothing to do with film.
B. If you're sitting there watching something on screen, and it's a different color from what you remembered, then chances are, it's THE IMAGE ON THE SCREEN that is wrong!
I mean, he was giving all these justifications that just weren't even logical.
I heard that they had to leave the cameras on, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the whole production, so they wouldn't lose their settings (or something like that, I don't know HD).
Another reason I like film, which nobody ever mentions, is that with HD, you're married to this freakin' cable coming out of the camera to the video playback (which you'd better have, if you want any idea how any of your footage is coming out.
My film cameras are all battery powered, I can just go!
Matt Pacini
You guys are right!
Check out this months Movie Maker magazine for the whole story, it gets worse.
It use to be that directors would have a point of view , and would use film to not only tell a entertaining but have something worth saying.
I think as film historians look back , this will be a bleak period in Cinema. And people like the Big R are leading the charge into our mindless future.
Ultimately it is the corporations controlling distribution and incuraging the mindless proliferation of Mc Movies.
He was on Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" the other night saying pretty much the same thing.
Loved his book "Rebel Without a Crew," though. Actually, I like it better than the movie that it's about.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well this isn't entirely true. If you want video playback you need a cable or remote device for both film and video cameras. Also, both types work perfectly fine without video feedback.Originally posted by Matt Pacini:
Another reason I like film, which nobody ever mentions, is that with HD, you're married to this freakin' cable coming out of the camera to the video playback (which you'd better have, if you want any idea how any of your footage is coming out.
My film cameras are all battery powered, I can just go!
As far as power is concerned, both cameras need external batteries / power sources (unless we're talking about small film cameras, which should be compared to battery powered prosumer video cameras instead of HD cameras).
HD does need cables and a lot of hardware tailing around for uncompressed video though (captured directly to a hard drive, whereas tape is compressed).
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