@RobbyBevard:
Its cause we've been trained to think it looks better from 100 years of film. The only reason it was done that way originally was because of cost. All that extra footage of film costs way more… but digital makes it a non-issue, and we're 50 years past due for the upgrade. Same way it bumped from 18 to 24, same way black and white went to color, and eventually that went to higher definition.
It's like people that swear vinyl record players have better sound than digital. Its cause your mind is trained towards a certain medium, trained to associate certain things with it, but it isn't necessarily true.
...or at least, thats the theory I keep hearing anyway. I'm not enough of an audio or cinephile to judge either way, really.
So, the lighting, framing, staging, costuming, direction, acting, color grading, and sound mix all automatically degrade to daytime tv levels because the frame rate increases and gives us more detail?
Soaps and home video look cheap... because they're cheap and done fast, often in one go. Not because the format is inherently bad.
Again, I'm not a cinemaphile, but I keep hearing "more is worse" and I don't get it... beyond the fact the the sharper quality does show the seams a bit more if the production isn't super quality.
But there's no reason to have a change from 24 to 48. It's not like with music where the change meant more could be recorded. (Also, I don't know about Vinyl vs CDs, but music on a CD is definitely cleaner than an mps, and that just has to do with compression. It's the same thing with video. The more you compress, the "dirtier" it gets. It's really nothing to noticeable, in most cases.)
When it comes to fps, just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Shouldn't we just bypass 48fps all together and go to 60 (as James Cameron wants)? Won't that make things even better??
By making the change, lighting will have to change, so will cinematography. The grips and equipment runners who have been trained to things one way will have to learn a new format. You can't light a 48fps film like a 24fps, other wise it will look cheesy and rushed. When it comes to cinematography. Everything will have to be adjusted for the way 48fps presents itself. Jackson and everyone on his crew have been trying to do this, and though they stand by it, they're just guessing right now, as there's no precedent to learn from. So good on them, but I feel like they might be blinded with the idea, based on the near universal dislike of the format.
Obviously learning how to do things in a new format is not impossible, but it is time consuming, and it will be difficult for Cinematographers who have been doing things a certain way for decades.
Maybe as a new generation takes over we will see a change, but it won't be my generation. We're all learning how to do things in the 24fps format. Our professors don't know how to Direct Photography for a 48fps film. They don't know how to stage the lighting.
And for those of us who learned the trade by watching movies and trying to replicate what we saw, there's even less know how there, as there's nothing to learn from.
I really don't want it to sound like I'm against the idea. I'm not. I'm sure it will look great, in 3D. But when it inevitably is released on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2D, it won't look the same. It will look different. It will look wrong.
But then again, I could be wrong this could inspire a new wave of films in 48 fps and people end up liking it.
But people could never get used to it. Not when every movie up to this point in time has been released at 24fps. Your collection right now consists of 24fps, so you will continue to expose yourself to it over and over again, so your brain will never get used to 48fps. It will always be different.
It might one day become the norm, but it won't be in our lifetime.
Still, I'm sure the movie itself will be amazing; I will see it in 3D, I'm pretty sure I will love the hell out of it, and I'm reasonably confident that by the end, i won't be bothered by the 48fps. But if I have to get used to it every time I want to watch it, it will get tiresome quick.
Just my thoughts.