What does HFR have to do with storytelling?

David Jimerson explored this pretty thoroughly in the introductory film to his "24P & Frame Rates" tutorial. I thought it was very effective in demonstrating the differences and the whys. He used 24p and 60p, shooting and intercutting the scenes into the same film, so you leapt back and forth between a guy always shot in 24p and a woman always shot in 60p, and you can tell the difference and see what you prefer.
 
This is a typical 2013 test write up: let me present some date, maybe even take credit for the test's design but when it comes to any meaningful conclusions - let the data speak for itself... Well, what is the data saying? I'm spending all 2 minutes reading and while you took hours if not days to design the test - so your conclusions HAVE TO BE more insightful that my 2 minutes... Make a stance and be proud of what you conclude from this test.

"The reality is we can talk about things like brain & eye perception, suspension of disbelief, and other dense theories until the very end of time, but until we start testing it, and putting it in front of people, we can't be sure what effect its going to have."

Until you even attempt to introduce theory and philosophy into the conversation then you are nothing but numbers gatherer - a computer in most primitive state.
 
Barry_Green said:
David Jimerson explored this pretty thoroughly in the introductory film to his "24P & Frame Rates" tutorial. I thought it was very effective in demonstrating the differences and the whys. He used 24p and 60p, shooting and intercutting the scenes into the same film, so you leapt back and forth between a guy always shot in 24p and a woman always shot in 60p, and you can tell the difference and see what you prefer.
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Yeah, that's pretty much exactly it -- it's not just the same sequence shown twice as in the blog post, but actually intercutting between characters as each moves in their own frame rate -- even having them move in their own frame rates on screen at the same time -- purposely juxtaposing the two and making the difference stark. I think when you view the two frame rates separately, you lose sight of how big the visual difference is.
 
One thing I noticed with the BRICK clips was that there wasn't a great deal of motion - and that's where the difference really becomes most obvious; although it was pretty clear that the second clip was the HFR. BUt would the general public notice the difference?

It's interesting the way filmmakers look at HFR as opposed to the general public. The DVX 100 was famous of course for being the first affordable 24P camera, because people didn't want their films looking like "soap operas" or the news. But of course they were shot on interlaced cameras with poor DR and so on; so the framerate was only one aspect of that look.

50P (or 60P) is a completely different beast to 50i, of course. But many filmmakers have become so accustomed to 24P that they are very prejudiced against HFRs. Look at THE HOBBIT. I thought both versions looked great! A lot of people hated the HFR, but they tended to be filmmakers.

24P is often referred to as giving a more "nostalgic" feel, as if the story happened in the past, whereas 50P looks like "now".

I saw a great short film a while back, that started in 24P, but then had some action scenes which were shot in 50P, and it worked really well :)
 
What does HFR have to do with storytelling? Zip Zero NADA

But I'd love to stop at a bar and watch the World Cup at 48fps
 
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