the death of film???

I personally don't see this as a bad thing. Increased quality in both sound and video, and less work for the booth operators who have to build reels, now all they have to do is pop in a disc. Although... this means a possibility that some films might shoot in.... 60i *shudders*
 
I'm always hearing prognostications on the death of film. Someday, maybe, but it ain't gonna happen soon. However, the installation of digital projectors can only be a good thing for the future if digital movies.
 
I agree with the points about better quality, etc...I don't like scratches on my movie when I watch it and stuff. Anyway this doesn't necessarily mean the death of film per se, but rather just film as a distribution medium. People will probably still shoot on film and just scan it in to the computer and distribute from there.
 
It is not the death of film but a easier, safer, faster, and most of all cheaper way for studios to relessee films. Movies will still be shot on film this is not meant to cut film out of the picture it is just meant to make it cheaper to send more "Prints" of a film out to more theaters and make more money.
 
haha, i didn't mean to be pretentious with the title thread, that's just the vibe i got from the article. I mean, i think this is a way to cut costs and deliver a better product.

I think it was star wars EP III that was shot on only $210,000 of digital tape ... but i guess when you spend 200 mil on a project, a couple mil on film stock hurts a lot less. Now shooting digital vs. film, there's a topic of discussion. :)
 
At the indie level digital is much cheaper for everyone to do. If I had to budget for expensive film stock and sacrifice the rest of the cash that could go into hiring good actors or crew, its a no brainer
 
Tell you what - I'm not impressed when I shell out $10 for an opening weekend ticket and the print looks like it's been dragging through the dirt on the floor for two weeks.

I was at a theater a few weeks ago when the courier showed up with a handtruck full of reels. As I watched him on his cell phone trying to get the front door opened, I thought about how archaic the distribution method is in this modern age.

2k and 4k projection is just another rapid step toward the absolute end of celluloid. Trust me - George Eastman would be all for digital processes. Based on his scientific and pragmatic development of photographic motion picture processes, I'm sure that he'd find the geekish sentimentality over nitrate and tabular grain laughable.

Sometimes I think the nostalgia we feel for celluloid is simply a wanting for good filmed content. In reality, we've been making unmitigated crap since celluloid was invented a century ago. Saying celluloid should remain anything more than a mentionable milestone in the larger history of filmed entertainment is like saying that nothing of note was produced after the collapse of the studio system or the end of the Code.

We should lavish a lot more attention on storytelling and not so much the manner of origination or distribution media itself.

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amen

(except I'll never buy into the gimmick of 3-D... Unless I don't have to have glasses... or just interactive films in general... sort of takes it away the movie magic IMO)
 
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