Post by Terrapin Station on May 1, 2017 12:01:11 GMT
Why are they making new films that look like TV-quality video circa the 80s or even 70s? Think of the difference between "indoors" and outdoors shots on the old "Monty Python's Flying Circus" show, for example. The video quality I'm talking about is akin to the indoors shots from that show.
For example, I watched Skiptrace with Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville yesterday and it was like this. I know that part of it is that they're filming with digital cameras, but you can process digital camera footage to not look like TV-quality video from decades ago, no? I don't want to get sidetracked with comments about the artistic quality of Skiptrace, but it seemed like a relatively high-budget film--including that the locations and/or sets were impressive, they traveled all around Asia, it had a big cast, good effects work, etc. And I even thought that the cinematography was impressive in terms of lighting and framing shots, the editing was good, etc. It's just that it looked like TV-quality video. Why would you want a film to look like that? Is it that they want to emphasize HD qualities?
It seems like most of the recent films that I've watched have had this problem. Any insight from anyone with technical/industry knowledge re why this is becoming a trend?
For example, I watched Skiptrace with Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville yesterday and it was like this. I know that part of it is that they're filming with digital cameras, but you can process digital camera footage to not look like TV-quality video from decades ago, no? I don't want to get sidetracked with comments about the artistic quality of Skiptrace, but it seemed like a relatively high-budget film--including that the locations and/or sets were impressive, they traveled all around Asia, it had a big cast, good effects work, etc. And I even thought that the cinematography was impressive in terms of lighting and framing shots, the editing was good, etc. It's just that it looked like TV-quality video. Why would you want a film to look like that? Is it that they want to emphasize HD qualities?
It seems like most of the recent films that I've watched have had this problem. Any insight from anyone with technical/industry knowledge re why this is becoming a trend?