Right now, people are completely enchanted with iPhones and such. Any
new communications medium is that way.
Once the thrill wears off, people may notice that watching a movie in
the palm of your hand is nowhere near as engaging as something that
completely fills your field of vision.
Let's hope for the future.
Brigid Duffy
Academic Technology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132-4200
E-mail: [email protected]
On Sep 30, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Dennis Doros wrote:
By the way, in my experience, students don't really give a two-penny
damn
about image quality, in most instances. These are folks (like my
daughter) who will watch a 90 minute feature film on their iPhones.
The
bigger issue for this crew is ready access at all times.
I usually agree with everything you say about 98% of the time and
then you say something I just have to respond to. Yes, it's true
that MOST people don't realize it or care when they're watching
badly-done video, but that doesn't mean that they don't get a whole
lot more when the image is big and gorgeous. There is a physical
almost spiritual reaction when you see a great film on a big screen
or an original work of art hanging on the wall. (We had both
experiences this month and I'm off to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto so
I'm very happy.)
And I know that most of AV work is dealing with educational films
that can (but not always) have a different emphasis on quality of
information over beauty of visuals and classrooms that are
definitely not the Castro, but one reason the experience of watching
films and videos is so devalued by people is that they haven't
experienced seeing a Terrence Malick film on a giant screen.
We sent a 35mm print of one of our favorite releases to a theater in
Minneapolis that's showing it in a couple weeks. Four of the young
theater workers put the film up the very day it arrived to watch it
because they couldn't wait to see it on the big screen.
--
Best,
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero
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