Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

There’s a fascinating interview with Wong Kar Wai at Film & Video Webzine here. In it he states that for his work, it’s cheaper to shoot on film than on high-end digital cameras. I’ll quote a small portion of it in this blog entry.

F&V — The visual style of your films — the saturated […]

Finally, someone has written explicitly on a prosumer-video website that shooting 24p video using inexpensive cameras (specifically the HV20 and Sony V1) isn’t ever going to look like film. It looks like a shuttery, jerky mess. Better to shoot at 60i (if you’ve got an HV20) or 30p (if you’ve got an HV30), […]

Toshiba announced that they are withdrawing from the HD DVD market leaving only minor manufacturers to continue producing the HD DVD format discs. This closes the chapter on the Hi-Def DVD format wars.
Here’s the story from the BBC: Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war

According to a NY Times story, HD DVD is now dead, if not officially, then in reality. It seems that all the largest retailers have decided to carry only BluRay discs and players:

The announcement by Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest retailer of DVDs, that it would stop selling the discs and machines in June […]

Here’s good news concerning my earlier QuickTime 7.4 post: Apple released QuickTime 7.4.1 on February 6th, resolving a Web security measure inside 7.4 that inadvertently disabled After Effects rendering. According to Apple, “QuickTime 7.4.1 addresses security issues and improves compatibility with third-party applications.” Another reminder that, although many might think otherwise, Apple and Adobe are […]

Well, perhaps the largest moving image production in Messiah College’s history wrapped this last Tuesday. Erick Fix’s In Heroic Fashion used the RED One Camera, a Fisher 10 Dolly with lots of track, a 7 foot Jib Arm mounted on the dolly, sets, costumes, multiple locations in Harrisburg & the College, and a large […]

Yes, it’s true! One of only 100 RED One cameras released since August 28th, 2007 has made its way to Messiah College! Erick Fix, a senior film concentration student rented one of them from Indie Rentals for his senior independent study film. Here it is:

It’s quite a camera, but right now these […]

Here’s a trend in several recent big-budget motion pictures: licensing stock footage from the BBC!

BBC Motion Gallery, stock footage arm of BBC Worldwide, most recently licensed 10 minutes of material for use in Universal Pictures‘ drama American Gangster.
American Gangster follows on the heels of several major feature film productions that have used footage […]

November 30th, Kodak unveiled its new line of Vision 3 film stocks which improve the already spectacular latitude of their Vision 2 stocks. Every filmmaker (and video guys in recovery) should read the specs on these film stocks (click on the image above to go to the Kodak web page).
While top-flight digital-imaging cameras like […]