Time to call a halt to 4:3
I know this is "off topic" but the point has been raised. As non-commercial film makers we don't actually have to please an audience; we just have to please ourselves. I believe this desire to please an audience is why so many "anglo-saxon" films are so unadventurous. Carefully designed to offend no-one and to please a board of judges made up of aging amateur film makers. Give me the stuff that is coming out of Eastern Europe and made by the young film makers. It seems that many n-c film makers feel comfortable with "amateurish" films. Yes, some films are made to appeal to an audience, often a specialized audience, but we should break free and have the guts to appeal to an audience of one!! Viva la revolution!
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Some degree of singular thinking goes on with topics of this sort. Clubs are often dominated by old-hands who are well past changing.
Where has that spark of IMAGINATION gone? To pot with this whole 'ditch a format' caper. They all have their uses even if not all of us can find one. I'm no electrician but I still have a screwdriver!
Each format is like every other ingrediant in the cake. I say this so often- READ THE SCRIPT- it'll tell you how best to make the film and how it should be viewed. Each story has an intended destination both in the plot and the expected audience. I've seen movies that have been better put straight to TV and TV that had great potential for the cinema screen.
I tend to find my films are at one end or the other with no in-between format. But like I say, I have made one film in 16:9 simply because of a technical reason that was good for the film to be that way.
I've always seen film as boundless in it's capability. It is an artform that encompasses all other arts and is therfor the most creative. It is sad to see people stiffle their own creativity by sticking to one format.
Tom, have you considered releasing a 'director's cut' of that wedding video?
Where has that spark of IMAGINATION gone? To pot with this whole 'ditch a format' caper. They all have their uses even if not all of us can find one. I'm no electrician but I still have a screwdriver!
Each format is like every other ingrediant in the cake. I say this so often- READ THE SCRIPT- it'll tell you how best to make the film and how it should be viewed. Each story has an intended destination both in the plot and the expected audience. I've seen movies that have been better put straight to TV and TV that had great potential for the cinema screen.
I tend to find my films are at one end or the other with no in-between format. But like I say, I have made one film in 16:9 simply because of a technical reason that was good for the film to be that way.
I've always seen film as boundless in it's capability. It is an artform that encompasses all other arts and is therfor the most creative. It is sad to see people stiffle their own creativity by sticking to one format.
Tom, have you considered releasing a 'director's cut' of that wedding video?
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Have a look here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y39gHih ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y39gHih ... re=related
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4:3
Silent 35mm was always 4:3. When sound came they just made the picture smaller at the same ratio, leaving a large frameline to hide the splices.
Television CRTs were circular to start with (the same when colour tubes first arrived later on). This suited a square-ish format.
Simple as that!
Television CRTs were circular to start with (the same when colour tubes first arrived later on). This suited a square-ish format.
Simple as that!
Ray Williamson, East Sussex.