Thank you, Randall Munroe

[deckardcanine]

I'm not sure how appropriate today's main punchline is, but the rollover caption speaks to me. Some of you readers may recall me wondering aloud why it's more fashionable for the emperor to wear no clothes -- i.e., why more expensive productions cut corners where the less expensive don't. Glad I'm not the only one.

One thing, tho: Does anyone really find high frame rates "fake"-looking? I've always thought just the opposite. My best guess is that, rather than exercising the Reality Is Unrealistic trope, people find it somehow "artier."

Comments

hmmm

[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

I just wish I knew *what* it is that I notice about some kinds of video. I suppose framerate is a possibility, never been able to tell for sure. It's not that some of them are unrealistic, it's that certain types of show have certain looks. Soap operas have a particular look that very few other things I ever see have (which is helpful in identifying programs I don't want to bother giving a chance to when looking through channels, but distracting when something I actually want to watch happens to have the same trait), the forth doctor era of Doctor Who has outdoor scenes shot differently from indoor ones, I don't know what's what there, but the difference is jarring.

Re: hmmm

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

It probably is the frame rate. The daytime soaps I've seen, including telenovelas, always have a high one.

Re: hmmm

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

On Doctor Who way back when, as on many British programs of the era, indoor scenes were mainly shot on videotape, while outdoor scenes were shot on film.

I recall a bit from Monty Python's Flying Circus making fun of this. At the end of the Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things sketch (on video), Graham Chapman goes outside (on film) for a smoke. He looks at the camera and says, "Good Lord, I'm on film! How did that happen?" Then he runs to the other door... "There's film here too!" ...and the window... "There's film here too!" Then he announces to everybody else in the room: "Gentlemen, I have bad news. This room is surrounded by film!"

That's what you're noticing about soap operas: they're shot on video, unlike most prime-time programming.