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this movie unironically made me realize just how bad the catcher in the rye does the “sad teenager who acts out” character.

I loved the movie! But why didn't Payne have the custodian using a metal snow shovel to clear snow at the beginning?

Whoah.

Does it mean the manufacturer make the digital raw file as linear character file.?.

I dont think any digital camera and modern lenses can create anything that holds a candle to the film feeling. I think we should embrace noise instead and cultivate a new feeling.

IT'S GARTH NOT GARATH . great video tho. subbed

Like the editing, such a vibe!!

Too many and too fast cuts but otherwise was a very fun video

The bass on your voice recording is too muddy.

Great video that deserves more views.

Over-corrected, over-processed, overly f'd with "broken" images... and, I dunno, just something "off" about a lot if not most digitally shot broadcast content. Same with LUTs imo. What's with this obsession with dynamic range anyway? That's for black and white large format landscape stills photograhy -- Ansel Adams. The "Zone System". Not for cinematography. Never was. Different things. Crush the blacks, I say. And if a highlight is blown out here or there? Don't worry about it, nobody cares. It's part of the digital aesthetic, just like scratches and pronounced grain is part of the film aesthetic.

How is that video so good? Who are you? Why so little subscribers?! Off the watch the rest of your stuff !

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I appreciate this video very much. Thanks for some good old criticism on such a matter.

looks great - what camera and lens are you using for your talking head stuff - tasty :))

Can't wait for the full thing

Looks mostly quite close, but it seems like in the original the highlights are actually all red and don't go to white past a certain point like in your grade

You did a great job with this video buddy. New subscriber here ❤

Movies are dark in the theaters! Alien Romulus and The Green Knight are prime examples. Turn on the lights!

Back when I shot for Charter, we’d use an early type of LOG profiling so our mixed group of cams (Sony, Hitachi, Canon) would match up in post-and when shooting multicam chromakey. The way it’s used now is mostly LAZY. Learn to light and flag properly and you’ll rarely ever want to use it.

For someone who cares about film so much, you use a LOT of cuts to the point it is annoying and distracting. I honestly had to stop watching because of the constant cuts and artificial motion. I would really recommend to tone it down. They're fun additions, but overused. I'd stick with 1/4th the cuts or something

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Well said. I wish TH-cam videos like this were a thing when I was in film school... or in lieu of film school!

The real concern here is that there are people suggesting the editing should be toned down. I'd understand the Errol Morris joke flying over their heads if this weren't a channel that specializes in cinematography/cinema... And I haven't even seen The Fog of War! Open the schools, indeed.

Yep, people see what they see. No big mystery. There is a saying, “You can’t please all of the people all of the time.” So do what the art director/cinematographer/or whoever demands and save your energy for important battles. If you think it’s garbage, either leave, or tough it out. And if you have the energy - raise your own money, and then you will find out….. you still don’t get to have the final say.

Its the same in music, record on analog consoles, mixed and mastered on expensive outboard high-end gear with tubes etc. and then gets listened on low res spotify with $20 headphones.

The fog of log! So true 😂

Kids these days, amirite? This is an interesting philosophical argument you make about color and perception of normality (as well as the spreading of trends). However, film/cinema is not meant to mirror life. It is an idealized (or at least stylized) reflection of how we perceive. I prefer 24p to 60p specifically for this reason. And the flat look of uncorrected or only mildly graded log footage is in many ways no different than bleach bypass - if done for aesthetic reasons, that's the author's choice; I might've made a different choice, but such is art. So I do think you advance an interesting philosophy of how we got where we are today with respect to the levels of contrast you may see in the theater or in random YT vids. But there is also, if we are not careful, and element of something analagous to the language debates surrounding descriptivism vs prescriptivism. If someone says, "goodbye" to me and they dont really mean "god be with you" have they used this word incorrectly?

Not a log problem, more like people who don’t know how to do basic CST, damn just change it to Rec709

What an evolution

Great video but dude this is so overedited. tone it down.

makes me almost wonder if the modern cars, centre frame in the driving montage to boston, were a purposeful blunder? in such an anachronistic film hanging on a recreation of the past it seems still unusual that these cars weren't removed. It would be quite easy nowadays even for a layman with any effects program. Anyway great video!

5:10 can someone please give me a quick sentence-long explanation to what "proscenium-aware blocking" means? Thanks!

So this is why recent 4K dvds I’ve got look so bad! Like there’s a gauze across the screen.

I have that IKEA couch!

This is great. It's such a hard thing to explain to most people who aren't colorists. I wish your video were a little longer, where you had shown a graded example of a low-contrast look, to demonstrate how even the color science of log footage is usually very wrong, not just the tonality.

interesting vid, nice1!

Root of this is lack of basic technical knowledge of what an encoding process is. it is as simple as that - everybody is "filmmaker" and "artist" now and very few want to put in the work to dig deep.

The grader can bring in the colour to enhance the scene, I don’t understand your explanation…

Aside from the fact that series like game of thrones are so formulaic where you can time the outrageous sex scenes after the outrageous violence and predict the length of each interval of same The fact that for the most part I seen to be looking at camera noise means that I just don't watch that crap.

Finally, someone said the truth

It’s also pretty nuts that after all of the futzing with lights, expensive cameras and lenses, color grading, the final image is weakened by compression, and the look comes down to the streaming service and your TV. Unless you go to the theater, which people aren’t doing much anymore.

Oh for goodness sake! With film, you never saw in real time what you would actually get on the processed film. Rushes were imprecise if honest. And until finally printed and color timed on chosen positive film stock, the look remained elastic. Nothing has really changed conceptually, but ignorance is eternal.

I've always felt that LOG should have been hidden. Literally just have the cameras have a base neutral LUT saved into the footage. The data can still be there, but you'd only ever see it graded. The data can still be pushed and pulled as much as you want, because internally nothing is lost. But you wouldn't just be presented with gray. At the very least for consumer / prosumer stuff I'd think.

Haha, that was epic. And very nice colors 🌈...

I rest comfortably knowing that the people making actual cinema quality work are staffed by people that know what they're doing and understand the differences of these technical parameters. You're couching all of your experiences in people making unfunded short films and youtube videos who don't know what the hell they are doing. Cinema is not that. If I go to the cinema the film has been encoded/colored properly for the display format. I'm less interested in the topic you're discussing EXCEPT when it comes to shooting on actual film and doing a direct scan of the negative and then not coloring or adjusting contrast enough from the negative which is designed (somewhat like LOG footage) to be lower contrast to enable a finished PRINT to have the correct contrast. I see so many projects shot on film where the highlights are too low and the blacks are way too high, which is sad because the contrast of print film is thick and beautiful and the blacks are black.

This is a cool video but I felt like the script could have been developed a lot more, you could've talked through some examples of this manifesting in professional work. You say a lot that this has become a problem for this generation of filmmakers and that many of them fall into this trap, but it feels like I just have to take your word for it... what are you basing this statement on?

I just love how humanity is so tribalistic we find a way to make a cult out of every decision: "________ is the one true way; all who deviate are blasphemers and heretics to be ridiculed and trodden on"

oh my god finally someone uncovered the one issue ive had with a lot of modern especially amateur films