As a result of what you describe, makeup and set building technology has shifted. They can't use the old sets with HD. One show I know tested HD side-by-side with 35mm a number of years back and decided to stick with 35mm because of those issues. Too much detail would break the fourth wall given their circumstances - 15-year-old sets.
Find the wall broken in any case with the makeup (at least the early makeup) jobs actors got. Very pancake. Very surreal faces. It's a choice. Jan On 12/25/06, Mark Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm the mesmerising power of the 42" plasma. I have enough > ADD to make the watching of movies I've seen before problematic (even > ones I like). With few exceptions, I just get fidgety. For the past > few weeks, I've been watching movies I only have a passing interest > in, just because, well, holy crap, the lush detail. > > I am sort of hoping this is a honeymoon period and I'll get over it, > before I have to watch every movie in the Michael Bay/Jerry > Bruckheimer catalogue again, just to see exactly where Nicholas Cage's > hair ends and "movie magic" begins. > > That said, having seen, say, Chris Berman on NFL Primetime in HD, I'm > not sure I'd want an HD camera pointed at my mug. It's rather > unforgiving, and unless Dove face-cream are going to make me a lushly > pampered spokes-bloke, I think it's back to, "he's got a great > face.... for radio." > > If HD cameras were cheaper, and I hadn' t splurged on a big telly, I'd > buy one... > > Mark Day > > http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ > http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ > http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com
