stills from diff stocks

[retrogrouch]

The look of super 8 is what we choose to make it. Art forms are dynamic, and the look of them will change over time. I agree with lunar 7 about the nature of cinema. Grain, DOP, B/W, movement, colour, etc. are all components that the cinematographer should consider when telling the story. Too much reliance on one aspect can make a work gimiky. (gim-icky?)
On the flip side, you can often date a film by the technology ( deep focus, rack focus, aspect ratio, film stock, steady cam, sky cam.) Fred's work marrying small gauge to digital tech is today's s8 tool bag, and things like that will help drive the medium. His work is a standard for the best quality we can reach today. If the filmmaker wants to use the look of traditional super 8 to evoke a mood, that's good too. Good film making is built using a language started by our predecessors, and that's why it can be timeless.

I hope that we get to see Blackstock's gallery. It would be nice to see some of the more exotic stuff. I'm all Big K.

RG

ps
( I would also like to see the rest of Grainies work)

[grainy]

thanks for the kind comments. FYI my current film is still on the festival circuit but once it's run its course, I'll probably post on Vimeo.
Here is another still, which I made into a "lobby card" just for fun.
http://lastcityintheeast.blogspot.com/2 ... tress.html
The blog is where the latest on the film is always posted -- however, I like to post stuff here too ;)

Video Fred - have you ever projected the results of your work on the big screen? I'd love to know if the processing holds up the same when blown up 100x or so... I definitely come from the numbers-deficient, artier end of technolgy-for-art, so the idea of learning something like avisynth is daunting to say the least. But interesting...

regards
G

[Andreas Wideroe]

Since there was an interest in film frame stills I thought I shed some light on this old post:

S8 filmstocks compared

Mainly outdated films by now, but perhaps we could do something similare with current filmstocks?

/Andreas

[VideoFred]

Video Fred - have you ever projected the results of your work on the big screen? I'd love to know if the processing holds up the same when blown up 100x or so...

I have not seen it on the big screen yet. My source is 1024x768. I resize it to standard PAL. I do this because those files are smaller in size, easy to handle, and they play fine on any computer. Upscaling standard PAL 720x576 to full HD on a Sony Bravia 40" flatscreen looks awesome. I'm using Xvid for the codec. The upscaling is done by the TV. So the processing holds up very fine in this case.

Fred.