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I think "Movies", as we remember them from the decades of yore, will have a resurgence in the near future due to 2 things: 1) The demand for movies outside of
by socialist_coder 5y ago
I think "Movies", as we remember them from the decades of yore, will have a resurgence in the near future due to 2 things:
1) The demand for movies outside of what the streaming services are making.
2) Most aspects of movie production go completely digital to bring costs down astronomically.
The easiest way to embrace digital is to just make an animated movie that looks animated with some interesting cool art style / rendering techniques. Maybe the boomer generation doesn't respond well to animation, but Gen X and Millennials are fine with it.
Otherwise, just look at The Mandalorian for an example of what they've been able to do digitally. A huge huge huge Unreal Engine powered screen, instead of your typical green screen. It is linked to the camera so you get proper depth and angles as the camera moves. The lighting is realistic since the screen is actually shooting light onto the actors and props. And the director can see the composition of the shot in real time.
As more aspects of production will go digital like this, costs will go way down. And hopefully we can have our "movies" again =)
- Damogran6 5y agoWhich will impact the QUANTITY of movies produced, but not necessarily the QUALITY. Granted, there's always been B-movies (and D-list actors), but surfacing interesting storytelling is going to be harder, the more we create.
- socialist_coder 5y agoWhat I'm saying is that A list people will use these same techniques to make QUALITY movies at a budget that makes it economically viable to release to a smaller streaming audience.
- toofy 5y ago> Which will impact the QUANTITY of movies produced, but not necessarily the QUALITY. Absolutely. We have a signal/noise issue. We need to figure out how to find the signal. I think one of the issues we really need to come to terms with is our absolute overReliance on algorithmic recommendations when it comes to completely subjective areas like film, music, fashion, food, art, etc… We’re just unable to reduce these things to algorithmic recommendations without the content being… algorithmic. When discussing this I have to often repeat to people, I’m absolutely not a luddite–I work, live, and breathe-in technology. I firmly believe science and technology are part of the key fundamentals to carry us forward. However, one area where I consistently get much better results is when these things are recommended by other humans. It really is no contest in how much better human curation is when it comes to recommendations. Obviously untested and obviously just pulling numbers out, but for me, I think algorithmic recommendations are just plain wrong about 95% of the time. Friend’s recommendations are close/spot-on about 75+% of the time. And human curation (from online reviews, real life DJs, critics, etc…) are decent maybe 60+% of the time. Far better results from humans. I think you’re correct that we’ll have a lot more quantity and we’re going to need human curation in there if we have any hope for the quality to gain footholds, to find the signal in the ever growing noise.
- Flatcircle 5y agoAlso just the novelty of it, in a world where it went away for a bit. If vinyl records can come back, Boutique films in a movie theater and maybe even rental stores can too.
- fullshark 5y agoBlurays / physical media are making a comeback, like Vinyl I think part of it is a collection impulse among the top 1% of fans.
- SkyPuncher 5y agoI have a home theater. I love watching high-production quality shows like The Mandalorian on it - but I also like getting out of the house.