Skyfall Joins The Growing List Of Features Shot Digitally (http://news.doddleme.com/equipment/skyfall-joins-the-growing-list-of-features-shot-digitally/)

Between the Alexa and RED EPIC (and DSLRs, etc.), more and more major films are going digital. What George Lucas predicted/hoped for in that 1996 Wired interview, predominantly digital acquisition and distribution, is finally happening.

Heath

And it's about time, too.

To keep the 'film' buffs happy during the cross over, there should be a couple of years where all digital features show 2 film projector change cues,
every ten minutes in the top right side of the screen. Keep me happy for a start ;0

I'd love to work on the Ian Fleming feature, I have an original copy of the book, it's a great read. Duncan Jones To Direct Fleming Biopic (http://news.doddleme.com/news-room/duncan-jones-to-direct-fleming-biopic/)

Hey! Shaun Connery could play Fleming .. cool huh.

Cheers.

When Roger Deakins says he'll probably not shoot film again.... that says something.

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Just like film...

Here's some new Skyfall links ..

skyfall | Screen Rant (http://screenrant.com/tag/skyfall/)

Duncan Jones to Direct Ian Fleming Biopic | Screen Rant (http://screenrant.com/duncan-jones-direct-ian-fleming-biopic-sandy-173107/)

Roger Deakins has his own website ..

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC • View topic - Bond 23 (http://www.deakinsonline.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1761)

Cheers.

Just like film...

It's certainly becoming more boutique, but that doesn't mean dead. Although, the means of distribution are moving totally to digital.

I was lucky enough to be on the Pinewood set of Skyfall last month, and the producer said it was the first all-digital Bond. They had Alexa's eveywhere on multiple units. Looking foward to seeing the end result.

I saw a comment earlier, I think at the LA Times, that the Dark Knight Rises is the only one of this summer's tentpole movies that's been shot digitally.

I was lucky enough to be on the Pinewood set of Skyfall last month, and the producer said it was the first all-digital Bond. They had Alexa's eveywhere on multiple units. Looking foward to seeing the end result.

That's one of the real advantages of shooting big features digitally, there's no film processing costs, that translates to more digi cameras shooting each scene from various angles. And you can try many more different things, not to mention an editing rig set up right on the set.

The director of the the digitally shot Oz film 'Red Dog' made those points in an interview.
Also the producers of the UK TV series 'Doc Martin' use that process, not more cameras, but they edit on the set.

The whole things changing folks, maybe the next big thing will be digitally written scripts.
Hey how about that!, you enter your cast list, a full description of each character, then either Drama, Comedy, Love Story, etc ..
the mind boggles :)

Cheers.

I saw a comment earlier, I think at the LA Times, that the Dark Knight Rises is the only one of this summer's tentpole movies that's been shot digitally.

Don't you mean TDKR is the only one NOT shot digitally?

Isn't TDKR shot in IMAX just like The Dark Knight? Except that this time they're aiming to shoot the entire film in IMAX, instead of just the action scenes?

TDKR is still a mixture of anamorphic 35mm and IMAX. The ratio of IMAX is bigger this time. So fidelity will still change mid-sequence (which annoys me).

It's funny I saw a post from Jim Jannard that if Peter Jackson had shot the Hobbit on film they would have equivalent of 4 million feet of film. Imagine the processing costs alone of that....

Images from Alexa do just look beautiful, looking forward to this one

They probably wouldn't process all of that, but yeah, I'm sure PJ would've shot a TON of 35mm film. It's staggering, these types movies when they shoot on film, how much they use. I remember over-rehearsing in film school, because I knew we didn't have a lot of 16mm film. Digital really helps out.

heath

Sorry correction 20 million feet!!!

Far out

As a percentage of the budgets, the film and lab costs aren't that large on these big budget films. Other items take up a much higher proportion of the casts.

Given the last footage figure mentioned it might possibly help if the cameras were switched off between takes, some directors have the developed habit of leaving the cameras running. Some directors were/are doing this even when shooting on 35mm..

Of course, being 3D everything is also doubled.

TDKR is still a mixture of anamorphic 35mm and IMAX. So fidelity will still change mid-sequence (which annoys me).

Kind of like the old Van der Valk TV series, half (mostly outdoor and locations) shot on film (so bad it might have been 16mm), with the indoor studio scenes done in video. So half of the shots were grainy, contrasty, fuzzy, and with lots of dust on the film; the other half were very sharp, low contrast, colors out of registration, and lots of red smear. It was so bad that I still remember it vividly.

If you're talking about the British TV series, it would've been 16mm combined with studio video material.

Series like "The Avengers" with US sales would've been shot on 35mm.. These tend to be ITC productions, which also seem to have a longer shelf life and quite a few of their productions still get screened on UK television.