Not a new production video, but people at the CinemaConwere were able to watch 10 minutes of The Hobbit.
Jackson wants to revolutionize movies with The Hobbit and uses a new technology for his upcoming movies, they are able to run with 48 frames per second (standard is 24), they have a higher resolution so the result is, the pictures are impressively sharp.
The majority of people who have seen it, complained about it being like a TV-show or that you can see the make up of the characters and that the clothes don’t look that real.
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Note, that the scenes weren’t in post production yet.
I’m very excited to see how it works. Better read the whole article.
I can completely understand their issues.
When I watch a HD film on a HD TV (like Michael Mann’s ‘Collateral’) it just looks lame. It’s as though it was filmed by an amateur on a small digital camera.
We’ve all gotten so used to seeing film in it’s current form (several decades in fact) that any transition is going to be a painful one.
Lets hope that they can address these issues in post production.
I have witnessed the opposite effect. Seeing something like Hunter Prey, filmed in HD on one of those RED cameras, the amateur project became high-quality and engrossing because of its great execution.
I find it odd that they say it looks like a 70s TV show, which is filmed in such low def your eyes would bleed if you watched it on modern technology, and yet this is around 100 times more high definition.
It just feels as if it’s sped up, like I said all I need is some time to get used to it. Just like when you change headsets you have to get used to the different sound quality.
I once saw a bit of Avatar running at true 60fps in a Full HD TV. It looked glorious but it’s really weird seeing a movie like that running at such smooth speed and sharp motion.
Here’s hoping. It is a cool feeling being the last generation to truly experience something, or experience a large change. Like when the internet was invented, or when sound was just introduced to movies.
Reminds me of this xkcd comic (particularly the alt-text). And it’s true, really. We only keep such a poor framerate as a standard because we’re used to it. It says “quality” to us for no real reason other than it’s what we’ve been accustomed to our entire lives. Well, I guess it would also cut down on any frame-by-frame work. But 48fps, or even 60fps, is a lot more true-to-life. It just doesn’t look “cinematic”. It looks like real life, so paradoxically that makes it look fake to us.
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