Is HDV a serious medium for moviemaking?

Re: Is HDV a serious medium for moviemaking?

10 years? :D Are you going to sit on your @ss for a decade waiting for a cam?

There have been many features shot in SD and gotten distribution. HDV is better quality than SD.

Therefore, there will possibly be even more features shot in HDV and get distribution than there were in SD.

Sure, any actor with a name will take "film" more seriously. And Barry is right, any festival or distributor rolls its eyes at yet another SD feature (unless you have Courtney Cox in it *L*)

But people will make hdv features right from the word go.

Use the intervening months before Sony issues this cam to rewrite your script for the 38th time. That's what really matters.

Hey Barry, I'm a FAF member too!
 
Re: Is HDV a serious medium for moviemaking?

I am with Barry regarding films shot on DV.
The problem is not because the film is shot on DV, but because they don't spend enough time on the story. All they care is the format they shoot on, and if it will look good. That is the first mistake.
If they wrote the screenplay first and then shot the film in whatever format they choose, then it wouldn't be so bad.

As for HDV, it is still early to judge, because it is a new format. The earlier cameras aren't going to be really, really good because it is still news. They are going to be refining the format until they make a good camera (a camera that will be like the DVX for the HDV format).
If we look back when the DV format came out, cameras weren't as they are today. The DVX is a refinement of many years of research.
Why didn't they come up with this camera in the beginning? Because DV was a new format. Just like HDV is at this precise moment.
We just have to wait and see.

One thing is certain, four years ago when I was doing my film course, the guy that taught me film directing said that in five years time the HD format would come into the hands of the consumers. And he was right: the first HDV camera came out.

Anyway, all the best

Fidel.
 
Re: Is HDV a serious medium for moviemaking?

[quote author=Mike_Donis link=board=nws;num=1095377070;start=15#22 date=09/18/04 at 12:43:06]I just want to mak a good movie[/quote]

Exactly!
 
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