Drew I agree with you. Asthetic dogma gets my backup.
Otherwise nothing will ever happen or change...
If I hear somebody say to me again re editing software "If your really serious about film making...." implying what exactly????
Quality wise I like to have my cake and eat it in both low fi and hi fi.. A 3 chip camera gives me certain options and on the Sony filters and audio inputs of a certain type are also factors. But that's the photographer and sound designer in me speaking.
There's a nice consumer Panasonic 3 chip that's end of line. Funnily enough my Panasonic has been very good in my outside animation experiments using stills. Very useful. I'll get my Canon fixed in due course.
Infact connecting the Panasonic in camera mode and Canon in VCR mode together I can take video. Strange combination LOL.
Everyone is banging on digital slr cameras and I'm still using a 2 meg compact. Even got into exhibitions using it and no one has complained about my pictures. As it's the picture that is the most important thing.
People still use and make great work using pinhole cameras.
I don't hear many people complaining about super8?
Audio wise today I've had discussion on the merits of the C64 soundchip and I can also hold a good argument for sampling in 8bit when needed.
Technology is all bollocks and we shouldn't get caught up with it but make fun of it. Yes it enables us to do things but it's not an altar to whorship at or form a religion around.
At the end of the day it's not the gear that makes the work it's the artist using the gear. We only use what we think is creatively right in our work.
At 42 and only seven years out of my degree and it's been in the last couple of years I've been finding my feet feeling I'm getting anywhere. Infact if I had done a degree in the mid eigties it would've been in ceramics. Probably why I like technology as it's like working in clay. You make a mistake you change it back to where you were. But would I have ended up here? Who cares as this is now.
Everyone should be eligble for funding. Though to make things happen you have to do your own thing otherwise it never will happen.
Drew I agree with you. Asthetic dogma gets my backup.
Otherwise nothing will ever happen or change...
If I hear somebody say to me again re editing software "If your really serious about film making...." implying what exactly????
Quality wise I like to have my cake and eat it in both low fi and hi fi.. A 3 chip camera gives me certain options and on the Sony filters and audio inputs of a certain type are also factors. But that's the photographer and sound designer in me speaking.
There's a nice consumer Panasonic 3 chip that's end of line. Funnily enough my Panasonic has been very good in my outside animation experiments using stills. Very useful. I'll get my Canon fixed in due course.
Infact connecting the Panasonic in camera mode and Canon in VCR mode together I can take video. Strange combination LOL.
Everyone is banging on digital slr cameras and I'm still using a 2 meg compact. Even got into exhibitions using it and no one has complained about my pictures. As it's the picture that is the most important thing.
People still use and make great work using pinhole cameras.
I don't hear many people complaining about super8?
Audio wise today I've had discussion on the merits of the C64 soundchip and I can also hold a good argument for sampling in 8bit when needed.
Technology is all bollocks and we shouldn't get caught up with it but make fun of it. Yes it enables us to do things but it's not an altar to whorship at or form a religion around.
At the end of the day it's not the gear that makes the work it's the artist using the gear. We only use what we think is creatively right in our work.
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At 42 and only seven years out of my degree and it's been in the last couple of years I've been finding my feet feeling I'm getting anywhere. Infact if I had done a degree in the mid eigties it would've been in ceramics. Probably why I like technology as it's like working in clay. You make a mistake you change it back to where you were. But would I have ended up here? Who cares as this is now.
Everyone should be eligble for funding. Though to make things happen you have to do your own thing otherwise it never will happen.