New Breen incoming?

Maybe it's in Wikipedia

November weather is in full swing and I just don't feel like listening to the summer and beach themed tracks for today's #ItaloDiscoFriday

This week is Raf's "Self Control" from 1984 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TQ...

It's definitely on the moodier side but it's still funky.

November weather is in full swing and I just don't feel like listening to the summer and beach themed tracks for today's #ItaloDiscoFriday

This week is Raf's "Self Control" from 1984 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TQ...

It's definitely on the moodier side but it's still funky.

Here's Kevin James with an open-ish aperture. That's not why his recent movie is bad though.

Also heartening to see that not all corpos are miserly slop-peddlers, since it was apparently the studio that suggested moving to large format (70mm and IMAX qualify as large in motion pictures). That's big money, and this is not a big IP.

Here's the interview I'm referencing (it's really good if you're interested in the tech details). And I would say there are spoilers here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qx...

She talks about their prep, their planning, their vision. They use their technical freedom to make an incredible movie.

Now, much of Sinners is filmed in low-light, and it's filmed on actual Film, so you can't cheat as much in low light like digital sensors can. It makes sense to keep that aperture wider for film.

The DP in an interview says she "shoots wide open." But... in general? In just this scene? Dialog only?

Cinematographers have this power now too. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Even acclaimed recent movies are overdoing it in my opinion. Look at Sinners. The DP for that movie killed it, but there's so much wide open shooting that maybe would have looked better "stopped down." Again, IMO.

The "faster" a lens is, the more shallow the depth of focus/field you get and the blurrier the out of focus regions get.

It allows you to film at almost any time of the day, but it also provides a certain effect that's easy to overuse because it can be novel and striking. It's surreal.

I've semi-recently gotten into photography, which means learning about gear.

I've learned how lenses have gotten so much better in the the last ~20 years it's insane. There are so many "fast" lenses that are still incredibly sharp available now for "cheap."

For those who don't know...

One point that I think is valid:

The freedom to do everything in post and exclude vision and preparation definitely plays to the worst instincts of corpo money brains. I expect that freedom is not used as often for creative purposes as it is for cost purposes.