I have always been interested in cinema ever since I was a kid and found the aesthetic of film very pleasing to the naked eye. I never could tell why they looked different but as I grew up I learned they were being filmed on different cameras. Celluloid film cameras capture light differently than the modern day digital cinema cameras and gives it a certain look. I never thought about the concept of cinema cameras being part of the collective group of communication technologies, but as I continued to read my textbook I realized that storytelling can be a powerful way to show and communicate information. Nowadays, cinema cameras have become fully digital and a cheaper alternative to film meaning less and less filmmakers are using physical film stock. I was surprised to find out that the higher the budget for a movie, the less there is a difference in cost between shooting digital or physical film. I also never realized that the greatest downside of digital film would be the inability to preserve them over time as easily as physical material. It seemed that digital had no downsides as it isn’t physical but archiving that much information without having physical access to it store it seems challenging.
I would really like to learn more about how film will be implemented in the future of cinema and I question if it will ever reach a point of no return? I could see film continue to be used for nostalgic aesthetic purposes in a small niche market later on. I would also be interested to find out if with the increase of technology, a substitute digital cinema camera could be created that replicates the film aesthetic without having to add in grain or other aspects in post-production later on. Finally, I’m curious to see what the of filming movies digitally on cellphones such as Unsane (2018) will have on the medium.
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