Comments on: Paramount Pictures Goes Fully Digital, Ends Distribution Of Film Prints https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-20140121/ Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: maddox https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-20140121/#comment-40181 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:03 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-89983/#comment-40181 PARAMOUNT can go to Hell right now!

]]> By: MookieNYC https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-20140121/#comment-40182 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:03 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-89983/#comment-40182 As someone who has spent his life making films, shooting 16mmm and 35mm, loving the look, feel, and touch of the medium, it is indeed a very sad day. But the reality is most of us were happy to stop cutting film twenty years ago with the invention of the Avid. Even though it changed the process, sometimes for the worse (too many options, and a generation of lazy filmmakers who don't know how to EDIT) there were so many positives that very few ever went back to cutting film. The advantages of digital post were too great. And now we have similar feelings towards digital projection, which has taken some of the magic out of watching films for sure, but also made the quality and consistency of theatrical exhibition MUCH better. Any filmmaker who has had to sit in a theater and watch their work butchered by a bored projectionist or dimmed by flimsy projectors neglected by greedy theater owners, is jumping for joy. DCP opens up distribution possibilities to lower budget films that were never possible with the high cost of prints. There are other exciting developments on the way (4K, high frame rates, advanced 3D, etc) . Although I miss the the look of 35mm film grain, as well as some of intangible visual quirks of film, digital cameras and projectors have started to deliver results that satisfy even the most picky cinematographers. A sad day, yes, but also the beginning of something new and, most likely, good for everyone.

]]> By: Ignacio Balbuena https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-20140121/#comment-40183 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:03 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/paramount-pictures-goes-fully-digital-ends-distribution-of-film-prints-89983/#comment-40183 ''For the small corpus of people who actually care, it's a sad day.''

that small corpus, includes you?

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