This documentary is fun to watch for those viewers who are interested HOW (and IF) the technical qualities of movie making could influence the artistic end product. The pros and cons of filming digitally instead of on oldfashioned analog film is explained to us by many brilliant (truly the best of the world) directors and photographers.
No matter what technique is used finally it will always be the creative ingenuity of the director/photographer, which will make a film great or not. BUT there are definitely different ways that the old film and the new digital techniques can influence HOW a movie is being PERCEIVED by the audience. And THAT is interesting. Martin Scorsese for example, stated that because of digitization (CGI) youngsters (below 20 years old) dont believe ANY image in a movie to be true anymore, lowering the emotional impact a movie can make on a young viewer, compared to people at the early birth of film, who ran out of the theater, when they saw a steam train approaching on the silver screen (true story).
Another aspect of digital movie making is that it is cheaper. Some folks will like that aspect (producers especially), but actors started complaining after the introduction of digital filming, about the endless, continuous shoots, whereas with the old film, one was restricted to 10 minutes of film shooting and then the film had to be replaced, forcing a natural pause.
I am not a tech geek person, I simply love the better looking digital images in the theaters and on the tv. BUT, digital movies can be copied easier and therefore do become more of a throwaway product nowadays, with so many movies distributed via the internet (Netflix etc). Back in the days of old fashioned films, (seventies / eighties) I saw less movies, but the impression they had on me was much bigger. Unfortunately when a movie was rubbish in the seventies/eighties, that negative impression lasted longer as well, for as today I can easily select dozens of other pictures to watch instead of the rubbish picture I saw earlier. And this abundance of available movies is only possible, because everything has been digitized.
More similar kind of philosophies about digital movie making can be seen and heard. Quite interesting and fun to watch, with many examples from classic movies and their brilliant makers...
No matter what technique is used finally it will always be the creative ingenuity of the director/photographer, which will make a film great or not. BUT there are definitely different ways that the old film and the new digital techniques can influence HOW a movie is being PERCEIVED by the audience. And THAT is interesting. Martin Scorsese for example, stated that because of digitization (CGI) youngsters (below 20 years old) dont believe ANY image in a movie to be true anymore, lowering the emotional impact a movie can make on a young viewer, compared to people at the early birth of film, who ran out of the theater, when they saw a steam train approaching on the silver screen (true story).
Another aspect of digital movie making is that it is cheaper. Some folks will like that aspect (producers especially), but actors started complaining after the introduction of digital filming, about the endless, continuous shoots, whereas with the old film, one was restricted to 10 minutes of film shooting and then the film had to be replaced, forcing a natural pause.
I am not a tech geek person, I simply love the better looking digital images in the theaters and on the tv. BUT, digital movies can be copied easier and therefore do become more of a throwaway product nowadays, with so many movies distributed via the internet (Netflix etc). Back in the days of old fashioned films, (seventies / eighties) I saw less movies, but the impression they had on me was much bigger. Unfortunately when a movie was rubbish in the seventies/eighties, that negative impression lasted longer as well, for as today I can easily select dozens of other pictures to watch instead of the rubbish picture I saw earlier. And this abundance of available movies is only possible, because everything has been digitized.
More similar kind of philosophies about digital movie making can be seen and heard. Quite interesting and fun to watch, with many examples from classic movies and their brilliant makers...