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Photographers don't want to use cinema. It is very limiting. When you cannot give the audience time to take an image in, you must resort to tricks, repetitions

Photographers don't want to use cinema. It is very limiting. When you cannot give the audience time to take an image in, you must resort to tricks, repetitions and pacing to ensure that they see what they need to in the frame. The beauty of photography, over cinema or other "motion" experiences, is that the photographer can grab the audience by the eyeballs, force them to see what he wants/needs them to see. That's why photographs can be so much faster and more direct than films.

sandworm101 10y ago
Film and photography are too similar for such comparison. Film is inclusive of photography. Everything that can be done in photography can also be done in film, especially with today's devices that display both as easily. VR is different. There are things in film that cannot be done in VR, as there are thing in VR that cannot be done in film. But in terms of storytelling, VR is to film as the "Choose your own adventure" is to novels. By allowing the viewer too much freedom to ignore one path for another, the artist's message becomes lost. To defend his message the artist will resort to trickery, extra efforts that detract from the work. A Disneyworld ride can be fun, but we don't expect anything near the depth we would from a film.
- CydeWeys 10y ago
  I'm not sure that you're imagining the correct kind of VR content here. Imagine a film as set in VR where you are simply seeing the film from the first person perspective of one of the main characters, but it is otherwise still a film, i.e. you have no control over movement, pacing, plot, etc. It's just a film that you see from a different perspective, rather than something more akin to a videogame with watcher agency which you seem to be implying. I think this format has a decent chance of taking off. Hell, it's already taking off in VR porn.
- erikpukinskis 10y ago
  You can't get closer to cinema. You can't take your time.
PhasmaFelis 10y ago
Aside from being pointlessly rude, this is a nonsense argument. Photography and film are completely different mediums, as are film and VR, which is the point. Nobody ever tried to replace or transform photography into film, because that would be ridiculous; trying to make traditional linear movies in VR would be equally ridiculous.

sandworm101 10y ago

Film and photography are too similar for such comparison. Film is inclusive of photography. Everything that can be done in photography can also be done in film, especially with today's devices that display both as easily. VR is different. There are things in film that cannot be done in VR, as there are thing in VR that cannot be done in film. But in terms of storytelling, VR is to film as the "Choose your own adventure" is to novels. By allowing the viewer too much freedom to ignore one path for another, the artist's message becomes lost. To defend his message the artist will resort to trickery, extra efforts that detract from the work. A Disneyworld ride can be fun, but we don't expect anything near the depth we would from a film.

CydeWeys 10y ago
I'm not sure that you're imagining the correct kind of VR content here. Imagine a film as set in VR where you are simply seeing the film from the first person perspective of one of the main characters, but it is otherwise still a film, i.e. you have no control over movement, pacing, plot, etc. It's just a film that you see from a different perspective, rather than something more akin to a videogame with watcher agency which you seem to be implying. I think this format has a decent chance of taking off. Hell, it's already taking off in VR porn.
erikpukinskis 10y ago
You can't get closer to cinema. You can't take your time.

PhasmaFelis 10y ago

Aside from being pointlessly rude, this is a nonsense argument. Photography and film are completely different mediums, as are film and VR, which is the point. Nobody ever tried to replace or transform photography into film, because that would be ridiculous; trying to make traditional linear movies in VR would be equally ridiculous.