Terwilliger
2008.07.03 - Thursday
I decided to take a look at the website for "One Six Right" this evening, just to see if they'd gotten around to realizing that no one wants HD-DVDs these days and released a version of the film on Blu-Ray. No suck luck. It was nice to see that there is another aviation film in the works, however. Though currently untitled, there is a short trailer and an anticipated release date sometime in 2010; still quite a bit of time to go. It would be great to see more of the "One Six Right" type of thing, but maybe on a larger scale or covering a greater spectrum of aviation than just one medium-sized civilian airport. I guess we'll see.
One of the great things about documentary films in general, and especially in HD, is that they almost always show you a natural image, as you would expect to see it with your own eyes. A lot of the time this is when people really notice the leap in quality when they're viewing a proper HD source. Television and films, whether to imitate film or to appear artsy or sophisticated, almost always colour-treat their image or apply post-camera effects such as grain, more motion blur, or gamma adjustments. It's really no wonder that after all of that tinkering, most of which is designed to hide details, confuse the audience, or create a "mood", that most of the public can't tell the difference between a film on DVD and one on Blu-Ray. On the other hand, how many times has an electronics store been displaying "Planet Earth" or another documentary film, only for people to walk by the screen and stop, commenting on how "clear" and "real" the picture looks?
But hey, what the hell do I know about making movies?
