Filmmaker opinions

[Generic Skinhead]

Does anyone know where I could find a good source of filmmakers opinions on Film/DV?

In particular I'm looking for Christopher Nolan. He said once that he has "no interest" in DV. So I'm looking for quotes from filmmakers who don't like DV. It's for a thesis.

Basically qoutes from people bad-mouthing DV.

[Mods]

Chris Jones, writer of the Guerilla Film-Makers Handbook has been noted as one who dislikes DV.

You might want to try emailing him via his website, www.living-spirit.co.uk (I think, search on google). Or even better, attend one of his courses and ask him first hand.

m0ds

[deanl]

Hey there.

I know Speilberg has no plans to shoot on video any time soo. But he did say he will shoot Indy 4 if Lucas "makes" him. I read an interview with James Cameron where he says he will never shoot on film again.

Do a search for the cinematographers of America website. They did an entire documentary (funded by Kodak if I remember correctly) About how dv is EVIL and will NEVER replace film.... Anyway on that doc was a bunch of cinematographers talking about there mutual "hate" for all things digital and how we should revert back to the horse and cart, and how electricity is the work of the devil, and how they dont trust this weird hot running water stuff.

Check it out.

Ill see if I can dig up some links.

Despin out.

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[Mods]

Take your DV movie, blow it up to 35mm, get it in the cinemas and realise how bad the image quality looks. Then call your movie "28 Days Later".

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m0ds

[Generic Skinhead]

28 Days later is actually included in my thesis...I actually enjoyed that movie...something about the only two survivors in London being Irish!

Also I'm writing about how Soderburg said that DV is how he would have shot sex lies and videotape now. Hence Full Frontal which I've had to order from America.

Thanks for the help so far. Any more examples?

[GREATwarEAGLE]

dv/film

[redlum]

http://www.ptanderson.com/multimedia...insidereel.mov

[Generic Skinhead]

Top notch Redlum. Good to see ya back.

Some good points from PT re digital projection. I'm inclined to agree with him.

I've just ordered Full Frontal from amazon. Anyone seen it?

[miker]

define in what context you mean 'DV' ?

if you mean (mini)DV(cam) then of course that ***** when blown up to 35mm ... although I didn't hear anyone complain about the Steve McQueen/Ford advert when it was shown in cinemas (it was shot on DV)

if you mean it in more abstract terms then any filmmaker who hates it is obviously an elitist idiot. most digital effects (such as wire and rig removal) people don't notice - and yet that film has been to digital and back to film with no perceivable quality loss.

I can understand why cinematographers may hate it more because they have to learn their job again.

i think DV is 'hated' because it threatens to commoditise the filmmaking process meaning that 'anyone' can make a professional grade film and get it out there, totally independent of the studio system.

hollywood should lighten up. i don't see ILM going out of business, despite the fact that what they do can pretty much be done on a home PC nowadays.

oh yeah, i forgot ... elitist idiot TALENTLESS filmmakers hate DV ...

[vt220]

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I can understand why cinematographers may hate it more because they have to learn their job again.
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wrong. shooting a movie on DV is a handicap, in the same way that shooting a movie on expired untested eastern bloc film stock from the 80's would be. if it fits the look of the story, then cool, but, if you've got the choice . . .

no cinematographer worth his day rate would be "learning their job" again to shoot DV. they would make tests, replace the ****** stock lens, and treat the DV format as another film stock (if you know what i mean.)

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oh yeah, i forgot ... elitist idiot TALENTLESS filmmakers hate DV ...
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good attitude, d00d. yeah, and movies that **** do so no matter what the format.

except when shot with the fisher price PXL-2000. those movies are always cool, no matter what.