Film Still Holds Firm against digital at Sundance

[Tenolian Bell]

Judging by the application forms filled out by filmmakers during the submission process, film remains the shooting medium of choice among independents, Sundance organizers said.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/colum...t_id=1000750730

[Tenolian Bell]

What I'm actually surprised about is that more films were shot on miniDV than HD. I thought there would be a big category for films that could raise more money than DV, but not enough money for film, and HD would fill that category.

[Phil Rhodes]

Hi,

 

Actually I'd have expected exactly that - either you have money or you don't.

 

Phil

[Landon D. Parks]

I wonder how many of the HD films where shoot mostly on blue/green screen then mattes added laster in post?

[Guest Frank Gossimier]

No wonder my Super 8 film, edited with glue splices, on my movieola, was not chosen by Sundance.

 

Those elitist snobs!

 

Frank

[Landon D. Parks]

Sorry for being dumb, but what in the world is a Movieola?

[Bob Hayes]

I think movieola is sort of a cross between margarine and butter.

[DavidSloan]

I think movieola is sort of a cross between margarine and butter.

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It's pretty good on rye :P

[David Mullen ASC]

Sorry for being dumb, but what in the world is a Movieola?

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It's a company that makes a workprint editing machine with the same name, usually called an "upright" editor as opposed to a "flatbed" table editor like a Steenbeck.

 

The cover of Moviola's sales catalog has a photo of one:

http://www.moviola.com/DataMart/Brochures/...Catalog2003.pdf

[Alex Ellerman]

Thank you for posting that article! I think it's interesting to note that of the films submitted, approximately 90 of them were projected via HDCAM rather than filmout - so while very few of the movies were HD or even dv, there were a fair number of D.I. to projection rather than 35mm print films. I found that encouraging :)

 

Some facts pulled from the Hollywood Reporter article:

 

*  More than half of the chosen projects this year were shot on film

*  a total of about 125 films

*  roughly 75 captured on 35mm

*  50 shot on 16mm or Super 16.

*  47 projects shot on mini-DV.

*  11 projects were shot on high-definition video

*  6-7  standard-definition video.

 

In terms of exhibition presentation...

*  110 films have opted to screen on 35mm film projectors,

*  while 90 will project digitally from HDCAM masters.

 

best,

ae

alex ellerman

[Rik Andino]

What I'm actually surprised about is that more films were shot on miniDV than HD. I thought there would be a big category for films that could raise more money than DV, but not enough money for film, and HD would fill that category.

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Well thing is it can be cheaper to shoot on S16 than on HD

And personally the quality might be slightly better

As well as it's much easier to shoot S16.

 

So the real two affordable options for indie filmmakers are S16 and DV.

If you have some money you go with S16 and hope you've enough for a film out

If not you shoot DV and hope they like it or something (usually its something).