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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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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

The depth of field thing to me is a manifestation of a wider modern trend of thinking the audience has to be told exactly what's happening and what to think at all times. It's the dramatic equivalent of a network sitcom where the jokes all have to be explicitly flagged, and the studio audience politely wait until the end of the explanation before laughing.