Humberto Rivera
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Some Thoughts
Some Thoughts
The Most important thing that we must remember is that 35mm film release is the first thing to consider. Then within the 35mm film release you must chose your aspect ratio, let’s say you chose 1:85 like I would because by just by adding the possibility of 16:9 I also have; for now the wide screen television mode of today and for the force-able future. In the future it might change to 1:85 and I’ll be ready. Of course you can chose whatever you want, for whatever your reasons.
Now let’s see what happens to film, in the Andes they projecting a 35mm “Hollywood” film in a theater that has wooden benches and everybody understands the content of the ‘Picture’. When I was in Vietnam, eons ago, we found ourselves in a South Vietnamese Camp one night, just two Americans with about 800 Vietnamese, that night they were screening “North by Northwest”, there was no-translation and no-subtitles; but everyone in the place understood the 16mm print made out of a 35mm film negative. Now that’s the power of a “state-on –mind” called “Hollywood” you don’t have to go there to make a film, you just have to make it in its ‘style-off’. That’s what all films aspire to do, to make a “Hollywood” film, weather you are there or not.
Now to the present, how many time have I heard; “film is dead”, that implies that in the HD film world we are striving for two things; First to make electronic images look like film; Second to make that “Hollywood” film with those electronic images, so we must get an “inter-negative” on 35mm film that closely approaches the 35mm release print in the film that “Hollywood” would make.
Why? Because if the business that the film must first make at it’s; “Theatrical Opening” that will determine it fate forever. Think about it; “Theatrical Opening” lots of money in all subsequent business, and ancillary products of the “Picture”, it has at least a 10 year live if it’s just make a mediocre film, and much longer if it’s really a well made “Picture”, think of; “Lawrence of Arabia” “Singing in the Rain” and many more of the “Classics”.
Now back to the 30mm X 15mm sensor, thank “God” for Jim, he has bucked the trend at every turn, you really don’t care what it was shot in, just how it looked in the “Theatrical Opening” that determines how long it’s going run, and will it live forever? For the near future there is a merger of 30mm X 15mm sensor that combines all the criteria’s into one hell of a camera. I chose the 16:9 frames with a 1:85 with a slight shrinkage, always looking for that optimum quality; it was established way back then in the 30s on the “Three Striped Technicolor” film. That continues to be the “Gold Standard”. We’re heading in that direction, and we can say what we please about it, as a matter of fact it’s welcomed.
So what the the 16:9 Red Camera offer, the merging of two technologies, Film and Electronics’! We have fairly popular “Theatrical Opening” in the 1:85 (in my case, but it could be 3D, or whatever you want) and for now a wide screen DVD release in 16:9. You have additional options with in the 30mm X 15mm aspect ratio, but those are the ones that I would choose.
I suppose I can go on, and on, about all sort of things, but for now, thank “God” for Jim, keep up the good work!
Humberto Rivera
Some Thoughts
The Most important thing that we must remember is that 35mm film release is the first thing to consider. Then within the 35mm film release you must chose your aspect ratio, let’s say you chose 1:85 like I would because by just by adding the possibility of 16:9 I also have; for now the wide screen television mode of today and for the force-able future. In the future it might change to 1:85 and I’ll be ready. Of course you can chose whatever you want, for whatever your reasons.
Now let’s see what happens to film, in the Andes they projecting a 35mm “Hollywood” film in a theater that has wooden benches and everybody understands the content of the ‘Picture’. When I was in Vietnam, eons ago, we found ourselves in a South Vietnamese Camp one night, just two Americans with about 800 Vietnamese, that night they were screening “North by Northwest”, there was no-translation and no-subtitles; but everyone in the place understood the 16mm print made out of a 35mm film negative. Now that’s the power of a “state-on –mind” called “Hollywood” you don’t have to go there to make a film, you just have to make it in its ‘style-off’. That’s what all films aspire to do, to make a “Hollywood” film, weather you are there or not.
Now to the present, how many time have I heard; “film is dead”, that implies that in the HD film world we are striving for two things; First to make electronic images look like film; Second to make that “Hollywood” film with those electronic images, so we must get an “inter-negative” on 35mm film that closely approaches the 35mm release print in the film that “Hollywood” would make.
Why? Because if the business that the film must first make at it’s; “Theatrical Opening” that will determine it fate forever. Think about it; “Theatrical Opening” lots of money in all subsequent business, and ancillary products of the “Picture”, it has at least a 10 year live if it’s just make a mediocre film, and much longer if it’s really a well made “Picture”, think of; “Lawrence of Arabia” “Singing in the Rain” and many more of the “Classics”.
Now back to the 30mm X 15mm sensor, thank “God” for Jim, he has bucked the trend at every turn, you really don’t care what it was shot in, just how it looked in the “Theatrical Opening” that determines how long it’s going run, and will it live forever? For the near future there is a merger of 30mm X 15mm sensor that combines all the criteria’s into one hell of a camera. I chose the 16:9 frames with a 1:85 with a slight shrinkage, always looking for that optimum quality; it was established way back then in the 30s on the “Three Striped Technicolor” film. That continues to be the “Gold Standard”. We’re heading in that direction, and we can say what we please about it, as a matter of fact it’s welcomed.
So what the the 16:9 Red Camera offer, the merging of two technologies, Film and Electronics’! We have fairly popular “Theatrical Opening” in the 1:85 (in my case, but it could be 3D, or whatever you want) and for now a wide screen DVD release in 16:9. You have additional options with in the 30mm X 15mm aspect ratio, but those are the ones that I would choose.
I suppose I can go on, and on, about all sort of things, but for now, thank “God” for Jim, keep up the good work!
Humberto Rivera
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