by thurnandtaxis » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:16 pm
Hey Slim<br><br>I do, in my flights of fancy, imagine how the digital age is reshaping our<br>sensual distinctions. The digital image as well is quite similar to sound reproduction with "curved" lines being made up of increasingly smaller rectangular "steps". The soft organic slopings of analog waves<br>are really only being approximated by right-angled forms. Film reproduces images in an organic manner so that a representation is produced by a process that in itself is a natural one using lightwaves<br>and chemical liquids. The resulting pictures being much softer and more evocative of how the eye itself works.<br><br>Couple this with "advances" in sound processing and a computer engineered model of reality that can be formatted pixel-by-pixel and byte-by-byte is being developed. Currently, even the best computerized effects look somehow unnatural on film and savvy directors use a combination of bluescreen, miniatures, matte paintings and make-up techniques to compensate for some of the disconnect. Features shot on DV-cam, such as Rebecca Miller's "Personal Velocity", employ a technique of shooting scenes infused with slight amounts smoke/fog machine in order to soften the harsh depth-less enviroments produced by digital video. So while the ability to alter reality effectively through computerized reproduction<br>still has a long way to go in creating convincing "virtual realities" it<br>is not so far-fetched to think that the time approaches when such<br>illusory environs will be created, and taken for granted by a re-tuned<br>visually and auditorally "dumbed-down" future generation.<br><br>That being said, the new Superman movie is being released with some state-of the-art digital 3-d scenes in the I-Max prints. And major directors like Jackson, Speilberg and Cameron are looking at the next generation of digital projection in conjuction with multi-channel sound<br>systems provided by new 3-D cinemas in order to compete with the home viewing market. -Or rather create another enticing adjunctively marketed product.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.reald.com/">www.reald.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>