Making Movies

Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me quickly if
movies are made using film these days? The range of even still film
appears to lessen all the time.


--


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" wrote in message
...

Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me quickly if
movies are made using film these days? The range of even still film
appears to lessen all the time.


I'm a bit out of touch now-a-days, but until recently the majority was shot
on film, even if it was going to be sent to ILM.

This is possibly not the best newsgroup as it deals mainly with stills. It
maybe worth posting to a video/motion picture type newsgroup.

Paul wrote on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:05:44 +0100:

Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me
quickly if movies are made using film these days? The range
of even still film appears to lessen all the time.

I'm a bit out of touch now-a-days, but until recently the
majority was shot on film, even if it was going to be sent to ILM.

This is possibly not the best newsgroup as it deals mainly with stills.
It maybe worth posting to a video/motion picture type newsgroup.

Any ideas for an active movie making group? It's not easy to find one.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:43:47 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:

Paul wrote on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:05:44 +0100:

Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me
quickly if movies are made using film these days? The range
of even still film appears to lessen all the time.

I'm a bit out of touch now-a-days, but until recently the
majority was shot on film, even if it was going to be sent to ILM.

This is possibly not the best newsgroup as it deals mainly with stills.
It maybe worth posting to a video/motion picture type newsgroup.

Any ideas for an active movie making group? It's not easy to find one.

The newsgroup microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker is quite active.
The focus of the newsgroup is to provide help with using the free
Microsoft moviemaker software, but posts touch on many areas of making
movies.

Pay particular attention to the posts of "PapaJohn" and visit his
website at: http://www.papajohn.org/ . Also, read John Inzer's
posts.

It's a difficult newsgroup to follow because so many of the posts have
to do with the same questions and problems. There's wheat mixed in
with the chaff, though.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

tony wrote on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:44:04 -0400:


Any ideas for an active movie making group? It's not easy to
find one.

The newsgroup microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker is quite
active. The focus of the newsgroup is to provide help with
using the free Microsoft moviemaker software, but posts touch
on many areas of making movies.

Thanks, I'll lurk for a little while :-) I would have supposed that the
posters there might be convinced that film was dead! I really just
wondered what was current commercial practice. Pixar does awfully well!
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:49:54 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:

tony wrote on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:44:04 -0400:


Any ideas for an active movie making group? It's not easy to
find one.

The newsgroup microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker is quite
active. The focus of the newsgroup is to provide help with
using the free Microsoft moviemaker software, but posts touch
on many areas of making movies.

Thanks, I'll lurk for a little while :-) I would have supposed that the
posters there might be convinced that film was dead! I really just
wondered what was current commercial practice. Pixar does awfully well!

While that group primarily works with camcorder output, the concepts
of making the movie are the same.


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

James Silverton wrote:
Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me quickly if
movies are made using film these days? The range of even still film
appears to lessen all the time.


Even if 35mm film is superseded for "shooting" movies, movies shot now
on digital are distributed to cinemas on (much more) film until
superseded by digital projection. AFAIK outside the US, uptake of
digital projection is very very slow, perhaps due to reluctance by
cinema chains to invest in fast developing technology which may have a
relatively short life-cycle before being superseded and/or reducing
dramatically in price. I'd expect that once momentum in digital
projection uptake builds, then the decline of 35mm film may become very
rapid. Before digital still photography eroded 35mm film sales, I
understand that movie use accounted for over 20% of 35mm film volume. I
guess that's at least double now.

James Silverton wrote:
Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me quickly if
movies are made using film these days? The range of even still film
appears to lessen all the time.

Transition to digital is underway. Look up 2k and 4k under film making.
Some movies have been mainly or entirely done digitally and then
processed so. Ironically they're transferred to print for showing as
there are not enough digital projector theatres as yet.

Most films and television shows (dramas, comedies) are still shot in a
variety of movie film stocks (see Kodak and Fujifilm sites for example).

Low budget films benefit the most from pure digital processes as it
makes a larger portion of their budget. For big budget movies, it's of
less importance.

In LA a couple months ago I chatted with some film students on
Mulholland drive as they struggled with metering on a hazy day and a 2k
camera. They anticipate careers without ever using film.

As to film for still cameras; it is still available in a narrower gamut
of films, but the pro films (from the two biggies) have hardly seen
attrition. I have to plan a little ahead now when I buy film.

--
-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm
-- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm
-- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin
-- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch.
-- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out.

"James Silverton" wrote in message
news
Any ideas for an active movie making group? It's not easy to find one.

Maybe alt.movies.visual-effects?

Very specialist, but some really switched on people used to go there.

James Silverton not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not wrote:
Hello All!

I suppose I could do some Googling but can anyone tell me quickly if
movies are made using film these days?

Yes. Mostly.

The range of even still film
appears to lessen all the time.

There is no digital technology that can match 70mm movie film.

--
Ray Fischer