Super 8 on travel show?

[zaefod]

Is it me or does someone use Super 8 for part of a travel show now on PBS? Sorry I can't think of its name, the host is a young american woman. What stock and frame rate and telecine method are used?


chris

[zaefod]

Is it me or does someone use Super 8 for part of a travel show now on PBS? Sorry I can't think of its name, the host is a young american woman. What stock and frame rate and telecine method are used?


chris

I found the name. It is Globetrekker?

[discs of tron]

yeah that show has been on forever. it used to be on the travel channel and it was then called "lonely planet." they kept the same hosts and the same super8 cutaways and moved it to pbs and changed the name. the girl kind of annoys me. there is (was?) another host who was a brit and wherever he went he'd inevitably get pissed. i liked him.

some of the super8 stuff is nice, though alot of it looks like its just thrown in. you'd think it would be kodachrome since most of if is bright exteriors but it looks pretty grainy.

[Alex]

It gets tiresome to hear over and over that whenever Super-8 is used, it is used for the grainy look. I mean I AGREE that that is how Super-8 is primarily used, but what a disappointment.

I'm beginning to wonder if it just bothers people who make a living shooting media that film cameras exist for well under $500.00 dollars that can produce imagery of a quality that in any other high end format would cost several thousands of dollars for the camera.

Perhaps it's the turnaround time for Kodachrome, but very few professionals seem to have a desire to shoot super-8 to make it look good in terms of not being grainy, and that seems unbalanced to me.

[Ian]

"wherever he went he'd inevitably get pissed."

And by this I think he means drunk. In the U.S. "pissed" usually means angry.

[mohican]

Boy, I do NOT want to get embroiled in all of this, but there is some merit in Alex's last comment.

[sooper8fan]

Alex wrote:

but very few professionals seem to have a desire to shoot super-8 to make it look good in terms of not being grainy

I hear you. I had a wedding client request that I shoot their event on Super8 because they wanted that old, vintage look with the grain, dirt, flicker, etc. But when I showed them some sample footage that I had shot, it was too "good" for them and so they requested that I add that stupid old film effect in post to enhance the imperfections. LAME! Of course I tried to explain to them that it's best to have a clean gate and a clear, sharp, flawless image is what I'm trying to acheive. I mean, if I'm going to shoot it I want it to look the best that it can....but whatever...the customer is always right, right?

[companyofquail]

sooper8fan, maybe you should have tried shooting in black and white and done bucket processing, that probably would have looked "old" enough for them.... heheh jsut an idea in case you come across the same thing again. and people that think the post production old film thing looks good dont know what they want, hahahah

later

[T-Scan]

Maybe thats why Pro8mm strives.. most want dirt on their film.

[Alex]

Maybe thats why Pro8mm strives.. most want dirt on their film.

hahahaha

[BK]

Is it me or does someone use Super 8 for part of a travel show now on PBS? Sorry I can't think of its name, the host is a young american woman. What stock and frame rate and telecine method are used?
chris

The very latest series from 2004 was on the local TV last night, and sadly not a single super 8 shot was in it, guess they dropped the idea and the old host too.

Not sure what film they used for the old series, it looked like Kodak neg stocks, but I knew they used a Canon, either 814 XL-s or 1014XL-S.

Bill