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."

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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.