Media Production 20 Years Later?

Brian the problem with phones from what I seen is this as an example:

At a concert people hold up their phones instead of enjoying the experience. They then bring back this footage and Tweet small clips out. Some even go out and cut thee clips into a mini concert

At the  other end of the spectrum people flood the net with clips they call creative which are far from it. Theres just so much info out there its incredible and only a few truly stand out.

The tech is great but it needs direction. The advent of the DSLR started this trend and I call this the "Lens Flare Era". So people shoot and record but don't know how to put this into a truly thought provoking and emotional journey onscreen. I see the trend slowly changing and watch multiple channels for that glint of a sparkle I know will fuel a new breed of young videographers and DP's.

Mo

I doubt any non Brits of a certain age will remember the TV series Triangle.  It was billed as the first such series to be shot entirely on Video.  It ran from 1981 to 83 according to IMDB.

This is the first comment on IMDB, and it makes interesting reading.

In genre, this series of 'Triangle' was probably more of a 'soap' than a serious drama. The programmes, being broadcast several times a week, would tend to confirm this view. The series was a brave experiment in the use of video. It was probably the first British drama to be entirely shot on the medium. A large percentage of the 'filming' was also done on location, including North Sea ferries. The technical costs were very high. The process of filming on ferries was also plagued by weather considerations, and power supply difficulties. The costs of transporting a technical crew, and performers, must have been huge. It is worth noting that, regardless of any problems in the production process, the screening also suffered from frequent breakdowns. Transmitted from a video source, picture-freezes, playback speed variations, picture break-up and so on, were very common. The acting could best be described as adequate, but was nearly always overshadowed by technical aberrations. The scripts were often very good, when considered alongside other 'soaps', and actually had some substance. Much of the filming was on location in Europe, and was visually very appealing, and competent. Had this series been made a few years later, it might still be with us now. 'Triangle' was a good idea, let down by the vagaries of an emergent technology. 'Triangle' was probably finally 'sunk' by the financial costs involved in production, and the difficulties in transmitting video. Whatever the problems, the series was highly entertaining to watch - other people's misfortunes have always provided the biggest laughs!

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I think our boss got us a D1. It was horrible and we never really used it, as film was so much better. We did start using computers for our photo processing, starting with PS 5.5. I was thrilled not to have to spend all that time in the darkroom, standing, printing the images. We bought a Scanview drum scanner to scan our negs - 2100 ppi. Never had to use that high of a resolution. We used to make 8X10 overhead transparencies for meetings and Velox halftone prints for hard copies, using a process camera, that started to disappear with Powerpoint presentations. We had artist paint renderings of our satellites for display, then we would copy them and make prints. That stopped too, and I was given 3D CAD renderings of the satellites that I would then enhance in PS to make them look for realistic. We would go to the Cape to photograph the preparation for satellite launches. Back then we shot film, so the file had to be couriered back to our lab on the west coast, so days delay getting the film. If we were in a rush, we would take over a local lab and do our processing there. Finally the folks at the Cape set up a trailer with a processing lab where we could process and print our photos, so that we could get prelaunch images to the astronauts and ground control. Everything is so much easier now!