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Side by Side
2012 · Film · documentary · 99 min
Directed by Christopher Kenneally
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
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On the lighter side "Side by Side" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014338/ about the digital age replacing film. One of the outtakes is pretty inspiring https://youtu.be/lepOQ2KfDwo
On the serious side, Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1770673/ rather depressing
Dakota 38 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2838564/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pX6FBSUyQI why Lincoln is taught a bit differently in my old high school
This paper came to my mind when I watched this clip which is extended material from the documentary Side by Side https://youtu.be/lepOQ2KfDwo
I just think writing off all the ideas that will follow, sometimes in different venues, is just sour grapes.
There's a great documentary called "Side by Side" produced by Keanu Reeves where he goes through the history of the movie industry moving from film to digital. There are still a lot of major Hollywoo releases that are made on film. It's producer/director preference a lot of times.
In the past, stuff on film meant you could rescan the originals and remaster them in 4K, which you can't do with 1080p digital recordings (like Star Wars ep1 .. they used other digital techniques to upscale them). But there are limits to that. Trying to rescan old film at 8K often results in a lot of noise, and you don't gain much even after trying to clean it up .. so there are limits to the resolution of the analogue medium that we are just now surpassing with digital sensors.
There is a quote by Jim Jannard of Red in the documentary Side by Side: "digital wasn't paying enough respect to film". That is the feeling I get when programming Swift. I really wanted an improved Objective-C or at least something that was kept some of the same conventions (selector syntax). F-Script was interesting example of a language, but didn't really have the depth. I just cannot shake the feeling that the creators of Swift looked down on Objective-C like some of the Apple folks in 98ish when they tried to foist Java on us. Its hard to use a language when your pretty sure the the designers hated one of your favorite things.
I'm programming in it daily and its uglier and has more syntax then it should. Its very much like my experience with Transact-SQL, I'll use it and gain as much proficiency as possible, but I really don't like programming in it.
It was a scene from the book and she was pregnant at the time.
If it makes the actors comfortable so we get a better story, then do whatever you need to do. Everything in film is fake in some way, James Cameron has a great line in the documentary "Side by Side" at the 1:13:45 - "I'm betting you've been on a couple movie sets, when was it ever real? There was kind of a wall there and nothing over there; there was 30 people standing around with a guy with a boom mike, another guy up on a ladder with his a## crack hanging out. There's fake rain. Your street, night, exterior, New York was a day, interior, Burbank. What was ever real?"
By the way, Side by Side is an amazing documentary on the evolution and conflict between film and digital cameras.
For anyone with an interest in the rise of digital over film in the movies, watch "Side by Side" (http://sidebysidethemovie.com/). It's on Netflix streaming. It's an excellent documentary that interviews many different directors (some who prefer digital, some who prefer film), explains the technology behind both, gives a history of the rise of digital and in general just gives you a greater appreciation for movies.
And it just might make you respect Keanu Reeves.
I'm personally very ignorant on this subject (and really appreciate the detail in this thread). I just wanted to add that I recently watched a documentary by Keanu Reeves called Side by Side about the move from analog to digital in cinema, for better or worse, which included quite a bit about the RED cameras and beyond. I thought it was a phenomenal documentary and well worth the watch for anyone interested.
http://sidebysidethemovie.com/
I second this and would add that some outtakes (called side swipes) are available on youtube[1] and a podcast. The Steven Soderbergh one is great[2]. Side by Side is a little dated, but it is an amazing and accessible show.
Red is an amazing camera, but they also had good ideas in how to deal with film makers.
1) http://bit.ly/19EQjie
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U00AEDLLzu4
i would highly recommend a documentary called 'side by side' about the history of digital video cameras and analog film cameras in cinema/film. goes into the back story behind red, arri, panavision, sony, etc.
it's on netflix.
American Reunion is good fan service if you grew up with the series.
The Hobbit is a technical marvel in HFR (everyone who says otherwise is wrong).
Life Of Pi is another technical marvel—possibly the best visuals I have ever seen.
Side by Side is an informative documentary about the rise of digital filmmaking and its cultural and technical effects (positive and negative), with polarizing opinions from tons of Hollywood folks big and small.
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