Am I getting closer to being able to see this film? From nofilmschool.com comes some more details on the film that shows what happened on the ground after Mel Gibson makes it to the plane to leave in The Year of Living Dangerously.

Joshua Oppenheimer Talks About Why His Film is Important

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses the tactics involved in getting the film to screens in Indonesia and also how to, “light what was a very dark journey.”

The trailer and these interviews are also found at filmcourage.com;

‘MAKING THE ACT OF KILLING GAVE ME NIGHTMARES AND INSOMNIA’

This is the stuff from which nightmares arise and of which we are all capable.

Gamut. If you don’t have a background on the technical side of television this may be a new term for you. Think colorimetry.

We don’t have a full palette of red, green, and blue to mix when we create a color image. Gamut is the quality related to how much of the full color space we can truthfully represent without artifacts or distortion. The new 4K technology lets us carve out a bigger chunk of the color space.

For me the attractive feature in the 4K capable hardware is the enhanced dynamic range provided by the new sensors. This article from Dave Kendricksen, found at nofilmschool.com, would have us believe that the end of interlacing and an expanding gamut are the key features to be had in the new technology.

Sayonara Interlacing, Hello Wider Color Gamut

So, maybe the BBC tech folks believe that higher frame rates will enhance the presentation in UHDTV as noted in the comments of Andrew Cotton. Dave Kendricksen, at nofilmschool.com, considers the results of audience response to the same material presented at 25 and 50 fps. There is no clear winner from this one and the title of his article might best summarize the conclusion, “Maybe it Depends.”

Matt Fannin has the site where the source material is available for your own assessment;

Frame Rates In Action

How far can we extend and enhance television or film technology before it becomes a new form? Are we really trying to work towards a presentation that is more “lifelike?” It might be time to do another read of Understanding Media, a book that came into being through funding from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 work is still in print.

I can recall dreaming of owning a Canon Scoopic back when I scraped money together to pay for film stock to put in my spring powered, non-reflex Bolex with its odd assortment of C mount lenses. I was pleased to see the name Canon pop up in the realm of motion pictures again for a product other than their lenses. David Heuring wrote about the Canon 5D in Digital Video magazine. The camera was cinematographer Sam Levy’s pick for shooting ‘Frances Ha.’ His black and white images are reminiscent of the French New Wave films. Heuring delves into cinema aesthetics in his discussion of making moving images with this DSLR.

Using the Canon 5D to Capture ‘Frances Ha’

Yes, 4K was the big deal at InfoComm as well as the NAB. Maybe digital signage is the place where it can really take off. Chuck Ansbacher looks at another place to exploit this rapidly evolving but pricey technology in AVNetwork;

The Big 4K Question Mark