Comments on: AFM 2008: New Technologies and Low Budget Films http://blog.sceneclips.com/filmmaking/afm-2008-new-technologies-and-low-budget-films Let's Make Art! Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Elisha Tropper http://blog.sceneclips.com/filmmaking/afm-2008-new-technologies-and-low-budget-films/comment-page-1#comment-41 Elisha Tropper Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:08:34 +0000 http://blog.sceneclips.com/?p=714#comment-41 Like all relevant technological breakthroughs, digital filmmaking is a disrupter. It disrupts the status quo, the established way of doing things, and embroils the entrenched to defending their rapidly obsolescing methodologies by bolstering the credibility of the absurd (reducto ad absurdum). For how else can anyone legitimately challenge the notion that digital is the less expensive process? Digital storage costs have fallen so quickly, and continue to drop almost daily, and there are easy solutions for secure backups that are as inexpensive or less expensive than similar solutions for film. If you want to argue about the difference in look and feel, that is an aesthetic issue, and perfectly legitimate. However, trying to deflect the reality of a clearly lower-cost technology is disingenuous at best. Any director who can't find a way to shoot digitally for a fraction of the cost of film is irresponsible, lazy, or simply not trying - and producers who take the time to develop effective cost analyses will not be taken in by the cost argument. Digital is not the future. It is the present. Like all relevant technological breakthroughs, digital filmmaking is a disrupter. It disrupts the status quo, the established way of doing things, and embroils the entrenched to defending their rapidly obsolescing methodologies by bolstering the credibility of the absurd (reducto ad absurdum). For how else can anyone legitimately challenge the notion that digital is the less expensive process? Digital storage costs have fallen so quickly, and continue to drop almost daily, and there are easy solutions for secure backups that are as inexpensive or less expensive than similar solutions for film.

If you want to argue about the difference in look and feel, that is an aesthetic issue, and perfectly legitimate. However, trying to deflect the reality of a clearly lower-cost technology is disingenuous at best. Any director who can’t find a way to shoot digitally for a fraction of the cost of film is irresponsible, lazy, or simply not trying – and producers who take the time to develop effective cost analyses will not be taken in by the cost argument.

Digital is not the future. It is the present.

]]> By: John Dugan http://blog.sceneclips.com/filmmaking/afm-2008-new-technologies-and-low-budget-films/comment-page-1#comment-27 John Dugan Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:46:07 +0000 http://blog.sceneclips.com/?p=714#comment-27 Yeah... I definitely understand where the argument is coming from. I firmly believe that digital is here to stay. However, If you are shooting at 4 or 5k, those raw files are ridiculously large. If you have a substantial budget, you are certainly not going to want to keep them on your desktop - security and redundancy are a must... and storage can get quite expensive. Yeah… I definitely understand where the argument is coming from. I firmly believe that digital is here to stay. However, If you are shooting at 4 or 5k, those raw files are ridiculously large. If you have a substantial budget, you are certainly not going to want to keep them on your desktop – security and redundancy are a must… and storage can get quite expensive.

]]> By: Jake http://blog.sceneclips.com/filmmaking/afm-2008-new-technologies-and-low-budget-films/comment-page-1#comment-26 Jake Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:28:56 +0000 http://blog.sceneclips.com/?p=714#comment-26 Personally, I like to tape all of my rehearsals. For me long roll has never been an issue. I would rather deal with the extra footage in post than risk the chance of missing out on a great take. Personally, I like to tape all of my rehearsals. For me long roll has never been an issue. I would rather deal with the extra footage in post than risk the chance of missing out on a great take.

]]> By: Mr. Blimp http://blog.sceneclips.com/filmmaking/afm-2008-new-technologies-and-low-budget-films/comment-page-1#comment-25 Mr. Blimp Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:26:41 +0000 http://blog.sceneclips.com/?p=714#comment-25 Long-roll factor should only be an issue if the production company is following the practice of filming rehearsals, or what amounts to what should have been rehearsal. This is something that has probably become the default practice since the digital format has entered the marketplace. There are probably a lot of production companies, directors, and producers now thinking that you might as well shoot it because you may end up getting something good on tape. I know that it has become a practice in the corporate world where I used to function as executives don’t usually have time to rehearse so it is done on the set and captured on tape, or direct to a storage device. Long-roll factor should only be an issue if the production company is following the practice of filming rehearsals, or what amounts to what should have been rehearsal.

This is something that has probably become the default practice since the digital format has entered the marketplace.

There are probably a lot of production companies, directors, and producers now thinking that you might as well shoot it because you may end up getting something good on tape.

I know that it has become a practice in the corporate world where I used to function as executives don’t usually have time to rehearse so it is done on the set and captured on tape, or direct to a storage device.

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