> I think this statement kind of misses the point. Film
>v.s. video isn't like
> oil paintings v.s. charcoal (or watercolor) paintings. It's more like low
> quality oil paintings v.s. high quality oil paintings. It's exactly the
> same thing, but one is of a higher quality then the other and thus creates
> a more aesthetically pleasing effect.
>
> There are, of course, a lot of beautifully shot video movies and a bunch of
> ugly movies shot on film, but that can't hide the fact that video can never
> achieve the magnificent look of film. Those people who make beautiful
> movies on video could be making something even more spectacular ones on
> film. A filmmaker who is forced to shoot on video is like a painter forced
> to paint with a broken pencil. I'm not saying that this makes a difference
> towards whether the film is any good or not, content-wise, but it does make
> a difference on whether the film is good to look at or not.
I find it hard to understand how people still make these
kind of comments...they are different mediums..simple as
that..different aesthetics.
I don't try and argue the merits of classical music over
electronic...
It is snobbish elitism that argues that only film can be
beautiful. I have seen some beautiful films and some
really ugly crap ones..much of what is produced by
hollywood I would put in this category. Being shot on film
doesn't make them beautiful, it makes them expensive, and
one of the joys of current DV technology is that it enables
many people previously barred from expressing themselves
through moving image work now able to do so.
Ana
Research Fellow in Creative Technology
University of the West of England
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"Television and the WWW are engaged in an unacknowledged
competition in which each now seeks to remediate the other.
The competition is economic as well as aesthetic, it is a
struggle to determine whether broadcast television or the
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