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    Movies : FILM or go DIGITAL?

    a "spin off" of this thread

    Should movies forever be shot on film (35mm) or they should be shot on full digital (HD digital example: SW EP2) ?

    IMO, like I said in the other thread, I want it on film (35 mm, 2.35:1), film simply gives more life to a movie by giving it this distinctive look only film can do....
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    Well, they can do so much more with digital nowadays.

    And sooner or later everything will be Digitaly done. Even your food... :butt:

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    digital, ppl like lucas is great for advancing the technology, just look at special effects and THX, the movie biz ows much to him. We are still at the birth of digital filming, no doubt it will become better and better, but only of ppl like lucas takes a chance and goes for it.
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    Digital... cose like everyone says.. digital can do the same thing as 35mm and more!
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    I can't believe i am the only real movie fan who think movies are called "Films" because they are shot on "film" and not to a tape or harddrive...

    I guess movies in the future should be called.. Best "Bit,Byte" for the year... what the hell happened to the artistic feeling of movie making which can only be seen in real "film" and not on fake computer data...

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    anything is possible with digital!!

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    Originally posted by tisoy
    I can't believe i am the only real movie fan who think movies are called "Films" because they are shot on "film" and not to a tape or harddrive...

    I guess movies in the future should be called.. Best "Bit,Byte" for the year... what the hell happened to the artistic feeling of movie making which can only be seen in real "film" and not on fake computer data...
    The artistic aspect is not lost. It's just everything is handled different. It's not better - it's different.

    Digital gives directors almost full control over every aspect of the footage. It's the next wave in quality. I'm sure there will be directors that film on film but it will have to be transfered to digital to be shown anyway.

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    OMG...... i am the only person in this forum who thinks movies are a form of art which is dependent on the "film" as an artistic medium and not on some software compression algorithm or computer data that gives movie makers god like powers?.....

    Think of a painting, do u prefer a hand made painting using OIL or water color or done with photoshop and printed with your 6 color Canon printer?.....


    C`mon film is much better..... !!!!!


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    Cool

    When DVDs first came out, the image looked too sharp and when you watched a movie, you lost all the "artistic aspect" of the movie. I actually thought VHS looked better. Now DVDs look better than before. The image is less sharp and the colors are more realistic. When you look at a digital film, the image is so detailed that it looses it's realism. Movies shot in film and transferred on DVD look great. In fact, I don't think they could look better. So Digital film doesn't do much good. Even though, in the other thread, I was surprised tisoy said he preferred movies shot in film, my vote goes to film.

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    I prefer movies shot in film. I don't think digitally shot movies are the future. However, I do think films being shot on 35mm and then transferred to digital right away is the future. That way you get the realism and natural look of film, but the same digital freedoms as if it was shot on digital. That's what George Lucas should've done, and that is what they are doing for the two Matrix sequels, and the video quality in the teaser looks GREAT but unbelievably natural, unlike Star Wars. Movies are supposed to look real, not fake, which is what digital looks like.

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    Originally posted by tisoy
    OMG...... i am the only person in this forum who thinks movies are a form of art which is dependent on the "film" as an artistic medium and not on some software compression algorithm or computer data that gives movie makers god like powers?.....

    Think of a painting, do u prefer a hand made painting using OIL or water color or done with photoshop and printed with your 6 color Canon printer?.....


    C`mon film is much better..... !!!!!

    most movies today.
    first shot on Film. Then into a computer. then back to film.
    So dont have any odd ideas of the purity of film.

    digital today.
    shot digital. then to film.
    But thats not the fair way to view it, a movie like attack of the clones should be viewed in a digital cinema.

    Digital cameras may not today have the capacaty to capture as many colors and as high dpi which a film does, but as long as we scan the film and run it though a computer we lose that anyway.

    besides, a movie like attack of the clones is not a fair movie to look at the things u have talked about. Remember, almost every shot got bluescreens and special effects. Its not really an "artistic movie".

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    You lose color and dpi in the camera, not the computer. Example - if I watch a movie on my computer, or encode a trailer that was shot on film, it still has that realism. Just going through a computer doesn't take that away... being shot on digital and being processed or stored in a computer are two very different things. Did you know that when you watch a DVD those are computer files on the DVD? Like I said before, it should be shot on film, then immediately transferred to digital, just like the next two Matrix films.

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    Originally posted by Mark Strube
    You lose color and dpi in the camera, not the computer.
    no, you lose in the transfer.


    Originally posted by Mark Strube
    Did you know that when you watch a DVD those are computer files on the DVD?
    really? damn i always thought it was Santas elfs that drew pictues on my monitor.

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    What transfer? I'm talking about 100% digital movies.
    Originally posted by Gaumont
    really? damn i always thought it was Santas elfs that drew pictues on my monitor.
    Real mature.

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    Originally posted by tisoy
    Think of a painting, do u prefer a hand made painting using OIL or water color or done with photoshop and printed with your 6 color Canon printer?.....
    It depends on the talent of the artist, really. Anyone can create pure crap with either medium but they both need a master to create something unique and beautiful.

    Same thing goes with movies - anyone can "make a movie". Someone with some skill can make a decent movie and it takes something more to create a good movie. Film and digital are two different ways of doing it. Just because your movie is digital though, doesn't mean you have it easy.

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