Emotional truth
I was reading this post about HD-shooting DSLR cameras today and I
really like how he opened the piece:
Let's get something straight. The video from the Nikon D90 and the
Canon 5D MkII is not of good quality. It's over compressed,
over-processed, over-sharpened, and lacks professional control. It
skews and shears and shuts off in the middle of a take. It sucks.
So why are we so excited by it?
Because the video from these DSLRs stimulates us emotionally. It's
contrasty, with sexy depth of field. It looks like cinema, if you don't
look to close. Guess who doesn't look too close. Everyone.
I am totally convinced that what he wrote is true, and more than that,
the spirit of these comments is applicable to fields outside of
film/video... such as video games. (Come to think of it, I suppose what
follows are all thoughts that ultimately stem, for me, from Scott
McCloud's great book Understanding Comics. edited to add: also,
Walter Murch's In the Blink of an Eye, about which I should write more.)
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