Comments on: Porn in HD, or Why When Porn Sucks the Media Sucks on it Harder. http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/01/23/porn-in-hd-or-why-when-porn-sucks-the-media-sucks-on-it-harder/ Real Talk About Making Real Sex Erotic Documentaries Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:09:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: tony http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/01/23/porn-in-hd-or-why-when-porn-sucks-the-media-sucks-on-it-harder/#comment-19313 tony Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/01/23/porn-in-hd-or-why-when-porn-sucks-the-media-sucks-on-it-harder/#comment-19313 To get HD video to really look any different from SD video, it requires as much care and attention to detail, in both production and post production, as film. If your only cost is stock through the camera, then yes, HD is cheaper than film. But stock through the camera is hardly the only expense in making a movie, is it? Where the techology stands today, it is often easier and less expensive to get a more beautiful result shooting by shooting film. To get HD video to really look any different from SD video, it requires as much care and attention to detail, in both production and post production, as film.

If your only cost is stock through the camera, then yes, HD is cheaper than film. But stock through the camera is hardly the only expense in making a movie, is it?

Where the techology stands today, it is often easier and less expensive to get a more beautiful result shooting by shooting film.

]]> By: Rupert http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/01/23/porn-in-hd-or-why-when-porn-sucks-the-media-sucks-on-it-harder/#comment-18676 Rupert Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:54:33 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/01/23/porn-in-hd-or-why-when-porn-sucks-the-media-sucks-on-it-harder/#comment-18676 I don't understand why we can't shoot porn on 8mm, or double 8mm. I was given a camera by my university as, a kind of 'gold-watch' joke for having been there for 6yrs, and it was a Panasonic Super-VHS (one of the big ones with full VHS tapes in the loader), but I thought about a script that I wanted to shoot on VHS, "Penetration of the Giant Mutant Sperm Fish" and the feel and content of the film would really work using this 1980's format because that is when all those 'nudie college' flicks were made. I still think there is alots of room for 'concept porn' (I'm using that word for ease of covering all Smokers. The one thing with HD is that once it is transferred it loses much of its colour range, that's what we discovered anyway. Rups I don’t understand why we can’t shoot porn on 8mm, or double 8mm. I was given a camera by my university as, a kind of ‘gold-watch’ joke for having been there for 6yrs, and it was a Panasonic Super-VHS (one of the big ones with full VHS tapes in the loader), but I thought about a script that I wanted to shoot on VHS, “Penetration of the Giant Mutant Sperm Fish” and the feel and content of the film would really work using this 1980’s format because that is when all those ‘nudie college’ flicks were made.

I still think there is alots of room for ‘concept porn’ (I’m using that word for ease of covering all Smokers. The one thing with HD is that once it is transferred it loses much of its colour range, that’s what we discovered anyway.

Rups

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