Saturday, July 4, 2009HDSLR MOVIE MAKING EVENS THE PLAYING FIELD Today is the fourth of July, while most people celebrate the birth of America, the day holds a more personal meaning for me - it's the day my father died. While on good days I envision my father's soul ascending to heaven amid the fireworks, on the days I feel his loss, I think of the grandson he never met.  Now some years later, I feel a connection to my father I would have never imagined - to be at the dawn of a technology. My father was born in 1921 and came of age at the dawn of television in New York, when it was a cutting edge technology full of promise and potential. He was a cameraman before the term was coined. He worked with Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, shot the first baseball game and the first coast to coast color broadcast. He had a fifty year career at CBS and raised a family of five. Today, while HDSLR movie making may not have the same impact as television, it does put in the hands of every movie-maker the ability to make big movies on a little camera. The great quality divide reserved only for those that could afford it is over. Just like the old aesthetics debate of film vs. digital, the idea that an inexpensive camera can only make a little movie is dead. Declare your Independence today. Make a BIG MOVIE with a little camera. - Liam Finn Tweet this! posted by Finndependent.com at 12:08 PM |
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2 Comments:
Liam-
May your Father's Spirit live on and continue to triumph through your dedication to this art and industry.
-Jose Tafael Fayette
Glad I found this site - I found your posts really helpful in my own exploration of what camera to choose for filmmaking on a super-tight budget while at the same time using technology to the fullest to push the limits of what's possible.
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