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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore (A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.) (www.youtube.com)

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Watched this earlier this morning and it was a great in depth video. It’s not digital vs film. Biggest complaints seem to be everything being shot with shallow depth of field, which is the current cinematic fashion.

Biggest issue though is everything being shot as evenly, and blandly, as possible to make it easier to change everything in post, rather than making sure everything looks as great as possible in camera.

”We’ll fix it in post” is the worst thing that happened to cinematography. Edit: Yeah not just that but the same mentality has been detrimental to all creative work.

Great watch and fully agree. Always blows my mind that Jurassic Park from 1993 looks so much better than the modern day Jurassic World films.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Movies on VHS still feel the most real to me.

Probably also something to do with the fact almost every movie then was mixed to a Nagra.

All these little beautiful mechanical subtleties add up.

Also everything mentioned here is true in music now too. "Fix in the mix. Record as dry as possible. Di everything, dont use mics" basically take all soul and risk and creativity out of music. Which is why audio quality has suffered greatly in modern times for the majority of popular music.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

The VHS era movies had not only analog sound recorded with Nagra recorders, but analog visuals filmed with film cameras, and finally, analog delivery on VHS. It would be the equivalent of a Vinyl album recorded and mastered on analog equipment.