--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other films have used camcorders for some of the footage. 28 Days Later, > Tadpole, Dancer in the Dark, Blair Witch Project (ok, bad example). > > Of course, "camcorder" is a pretty broad term these days. A $3,000-6,000 > HDV video camera can be considered a "camcorder" to film producers used > to using $50,000-200,000 film cameras. > > My opinion: The trailer had to be shot with something that can do 1080i > or 1080p. I watched the 480p trailer at apple.com, and it looked damn good.
I agree that whatever that footage was shot on was capturing in high quality of some format. I saw the trailer in the theater while I was waiting to see "Transformers", and I thought it was the beginning of the Transformers movie itself. :) Especially considering that the Transformers trailers showed fireballs coming down from the sky and so did this video I was watching that I later found out was a trailer for something else. As long as you have a lightweight camera, it's easy to emulate the movements of "camcorder" footage. It's also easy to compress the video in post in a certain way that makes it look more like consumer video than it actually does when it's captured. -- billcammack > Battlestar Galactica is shot in 720p video, using that same hand-held > feel. I've seen the Panasonic AG-HVX200 pop-up in their > behind-the-scenes footage (and the characters playing news reporters > carry them) ... that's a $6k camera. > > So it can be done, as long as you have a broad definition of "Camcorder" :) > > thisiswar3005 wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I understand that J.J. Abrams is developing a movie with the code name Cloverfield and which > > is being filmed with camcorders. > > > > That claim was challenged by one person; I believe that the film can be done this way, but > > what say you? > > > > Here's the preview -- well, a doctored version developed by me. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjbaB42YFc > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- > Brian Richardson > - http://siliconchef.com > - http://dragoncontv.com > - http://whatthecast.com > - http://www.3chip.com >
