Above: Peter Jackson in the camera department of “The Hobbit” Peter Jackson chose to take a controversial step away from the cinema look and shoot The Hobbit at 48p HFR. I’ve now seen it in glorious 48 frames per second and that isn’t the biggest problem. Jackson is shooting The Hobbit like an epic but the material this time is not of epic proportions, and the action sequences are typical popcorn…
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“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” – Jean Luc Godard “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean Luc Godard Cinema used to be an illusion, but now the camera is putting extra pressure on filmmakers to keep up the illusion. Drawing on a conversation I had a few months ago with a VFX supervisor, EOSHD presents the challenges and problems that…
Above: Cate Blanchett receives some all-too-real makeup on the set of The Hobbit Peter Jackson shot The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 48 frames per second (HFR) in 3D. So what is the verdict on HFR technology… More immersive? Helps the story? More beautiful?
At the moment cinema purists around the world are getting out of their beds on the wrong side. Two prominent filmmakers are attempting to squash the gold standard of cinema and home displays are taking all sorts of unpleasant turns with high frame rates and 3D helping to shift sets in the way that high megapixels help the unwashed masses buy cameras.
James Cameron has given us a startling glimpse of filmmaking’s future. In an interview with Fora.tv via movie blog Slashfilm, the filmmaker offers his notion of cinema’s future – and the good news is that the wheels are already turning. Work is underway already with an elite team at Cameron HQ.