AMAZING TECH IN EACH FRAME

The capability we have for filmmaking today is fantastic; the ability to bless each frame with such clarity is something many strive for but few achieve, and with frank millers comics adapted into films (Sin City and 300) we can finally see how far we have come in our digital age. Each frame looks as if it were realistic even though both used a considerable amount of computer animation with a minimal amount of live action parts.
Seeing each part coming to life so surreal in plot yet so beautiful, each image crisp, something new, with little repetition, and noticing the immense attention to detail shows that with a little bit of effort there is virtually nothing you can’t create.

Now I love classic films, and seeing them enhanced in both audio and picture is something amazing, such films as The Man with No Name trilogy ( Fist Full Of Dollars, For a few dollars more , the good the bad and the ugly) starring Clint Eastwood have been fully re mastered something we should do to every classic. However taking into account the amount of percision required means most of them will not be touched up, some will be left in their gritty old look such as Cool Hand Luke an amazing story starring Paul Newman because of the length of the film and willingness to enrich said film.

Now with each filmmaker’s views being on the future, tech. such as hi def cameras and high quality video editing software become vital in the filmmaker’s toolbox. As they rightly should because of the creativity being in the process of itself, you owe it to yourself to give the best possible imagery for your original idea while maintaining your original aspirations for said project.

Visual Programs,bad tutorials, and frustration.

During the last week of school we were instructed to review various things in relation to the different tutorials surrounding our dated Photoshop software. The main thing behind it was to allow us a better understanding so thankfully our school had broke the bank and kept us with our “lovely” Photoshop 5.0 and not even the full version just a little flavor of it. Fantastic I thought before I realized that fabulous piece of information, I’d be able to learn how to use a program that I’d be interested in before but never had the skill to do properly.
Well as it turned out the perfect little tutorials they had available were for a higher version of Photoshop while we the lovely traditionalists we are, still use the dated software. So I toiled and I tried I moaned and no I didn’t cry I in a manly fashion exclaimed my distaste for the dated program, various tools didn’t work, different effects were harder than implied. They were great, very informative and most of all easy to understand, however the steps were hard, the tools were virtually unavailable and every little technique seemed to be completely useless that they listed. Lets not even begin to talk about the lovely Corel draw that makes you long for the fantastically current Photoshop, it has so many flaws for doing art work, it’d be like using notepad to write your essay instead of Microsoft word .