Last week I was granted the opportunity to work on a short film shooting on a [RED] camera. After seeing the quality of images in The Social Network, I was totally stoked. However, after working on this film, I realized digital production gives you more opportunities to take footage because the "film never runs out."
The director of this surrealist film allowed takes to go on for 5 minutes sometimes, which is absolutely not a possibility in the low-budget film production world.
So I ask the question, does digital technologies make filmmakers more relaxed because the medium is much less finite than the analog film? I would say yes.
I found it remarkable last week we took several takes of each scene with a lot less rehearsal. I mean the [RED] is just burning binary code, but still is it art if it takes significantly less time to get the performance perfect.
Granted, I love digital technology, but I wonder how drastic the art form of production is changing due to this technology.
Here is a fun video of my adventures last week:
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