futureage1

Thanks Blue & Green. Haven't checked the board in a few weeks or would have responded sooner. I think it was Scorsese who said the more a viewer knows about the filmmaking process the more they will appreciate good filmmaking. I have always really agreed with that philosophy so it's great people got something out of the posts. It's really just the most basic of explanations. Anyways I just checked Amazon here in the US and still don't see a pre-order page for this Blu Ray. I will report back with a review once I get my hands on it and have a chance to watch it. Have a good new year ev

Basically Jones poorly framed and setup the shots. His handheld moves are really bad news. The focus is off for quite a bit of the film too. He also was shooting in low light situations and almost the entire film is slightly underexposed, which is why it is so grainy. Generally you would slightly overexpose if possible to alleviate some of the grain. The framing in the interviews in the film is also horrible. Just watch Jeff explaining being dropped in the hotel room. It is really important what he is saying but there is Jones unable to frame him well and checking focus the whole time and alwa

I usually never post just lurk but had to get involved with this discussion since I am a video editor and in case anyone from the Wilco camp reads this thread. Let me just say that film be it 16mm or 35mm is superior to HD still to this day. There are now some HD cameras available that give almost as good of image quality as 35mm but those cameras are made by Panavision and are for very high budget movies. Watch Zodiac for an example of that camera. 16mm has a resolution of about 2k lines of resolution and 35mm has about 4k lines of resolution so even at 1080P the highest standard for vide