Re: Low budget film question

"John Fromes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > You shouldn't make a feature before you make a series of shorts...
> > Look at it like a Marathon. If you want to run in the 30 mile race you
> > must work up to it. Trying to attempt all 30 miles the first time is
> > for sure to set you up for failure.
> >
>
> Good advice, probably stole it from someone with experience or someone
> who has actually DONE something...
>
>
> > Anyways... VHS camcorders are crap if you want to sell the video. Keep
> > in mind films are made with films. Crappy digital videos are made with
> > atleast mini-dv... Which is superior to VHS...
> >
>
> And the uneducated opinion of a whiner.
>
> "Short Films" is a term that includes pieces originating on Mini DV,
> and reaming on VIDEO. The word "film" is meant to include the whole
> process, not just the celluloid some people choose to use.
>

The use of the word "film" has become a popularized term for pieces made on
video, but in the real world "film" is just that - long strips of celluloid
and not magnetic tape of any kind. What is accepted is what you choose to
use. Suit yourself, but everytime I hear someone refer to videos or video
taping as "film" or "filming" I have to laugh to myself. The only terms that
describe both is "motion picture" or "movie" and it is from that association
to these terms to original substance "film" that we find ourselves debating
whether or not we can call video "film".

It's just like other popularized terms for simple things like "video
capture". I can't count the times I have seen people say they have
"downloaded" or "uploaded" their video to their computers. Though it is
foreign to me having come from the original "video capture" boards era
before the popluarity of the internet - where the terms "upload" and
"download" are commonly used terms, I find it makes more sense in reality
than the cross-terming of "film" and "video". One "shoots film" and "shoots
video", but one cannot film anything with a video camera.

Call it what you will. One's intelligence is measured by the ability to draw
distinctions between various ideas, methods, and practices. Wouldn't you be
a little leary of your doctor if he suddenly stopped using "intelligent
terminology according to the ideas, methods, and practices" of his
profession and began to use cross-terminology between you heart and your big
toe?