Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
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Watched this earlier this morning and it was a great in depth video. It’s not digital vs film. Biggest complaints seem to be everything being shot with shallow depth of field, which is the current cinematic fashion.

Biggest issue though is everything being shot as evenly, and blandly, as possible to make it easier to change everything in post, rather than making sure everything looks as great as possible in camera.

”We’ll fix it in post” is the worst thing that happened to cinematography. Edit: Yeah not just that but the same mentality has been detrimental to all creative work.

Great watch and fully agree. Always blows my mind that Jurassic Park from 1993 looks so much better than the modern day Jurassic World films.

  • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    I feel that this is not the real reason. I think depending on the genre of film, it looking less like reality is a desirable effect. Someone else mentioned The Hobbit. A fantasy film like that is the last type of film that should look like reality. It should be the complete opposite. The lack of reality in the visuals then aid in the suspension of disbelief. A fantasy film that looks like the news coverage one sees daily on TV is a terrible combination. A fantasy movie that looks like you would imagine a fairy tale would look is the right combination. I think people generally interpret higher frame rates as being closer to reality and lower frame rates as being farther away from it. A documentary or a film based on true events would be much less jarring than a fantasy one with a higher frame rate, but would still benefit from a little disconnection from reality brought by lower frame rates.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      I don’t see how “lack of reality” aids suspension of disbelief, nor why it should specifically be juddery framerates that evoke a feeling of fantasy. Why not black and white? Why not soft post processing or tone mapping?

      Should sci-fi be shot on higher framerates because of its modernity or low because of its unreality? Weird that (generally) sci-fi films pick one and TV shows pick the other…

      • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        This is an educated guess on my part, I’ve never read anything about this, but my thinking goes that anything that looks too real, which high frame rates contribute to, keeps the viewer in a mindset that is too locked in the real world. Sure, black and white and various post processing would also help contribute to this break with reality, but frame rates have been an established factor for around 100 years, so it’s a commonly expected element.

        Most sci-fi should be shot on traditional framerates unless the filmmaker had something very specific in mind where they wanted to tie the story with the viewer’s real world.