Re: Colourising Dr Who etc


"Roderick Stewart" <escapetime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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: > Whatever the film buffs claim about the superior
: > qualities of film, I think this only applies to
: > material that has been lit, choreographed, shot,
: > edited, graded, copied and shown as film, by
: > experienced people dedicated to handling the stuff, in
: > other words, cinema films. If it's shown on television
: > it all ends up as a video signal anyway so it ought to
: > look the same, but somehow film shot for television
: > nearly always looks worse, and of course a film insert
: > in the middle of well made video material simply
: > highlights this fact.

I recently watched the DVD of "Neverwhere" which I hadn't seen since its original broadcast. Listening to the commentary by the writer, Neil Gaiman, he was continually complaining that the BBC had insisted that the show was shot on video and not film. Apparently he was told that they'd be running it through a "film filter" (his words, no idea what that is..!) so they lit it for film, but then *didn't* use the filter, which made some of the scenes look awful.

As an aside, I'd forgotten that Earl Cameron was in that series, wish I'd have remembered it when I met him last year. He's doing quite well for 90..!

Ivor

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