

I would have liked to see that environment treated in a different way. I don’t think it’s enough to simply have the environment. I wished the transformative moment was a bigger difference visually to what had come before. I felt the pace could have moved a little faster. It had an idea and it executed it well enough. Sideways verticals on the train.un-cinematic. Looked like a few IS lock ups -cinematic. The scene with her crossing the road after the evening scene. There’s the always classic video problem of clipped whites. I find this incredibly distracting and quite un-cinematic. There’s shots with different shutter speeds randomly intermixed with 180 deg shutter shots. In this example, the biggest issue is the constant mismatching of shutter speeds.

So down with "cinematic".Ĭinematic is a much abused term. Without a commonly accepted definition - a specification, really - what does "cinematic" mean, other than "I like it" or "good production values"? Excluding artifacts like grain and projector weave, film itself can look like a million different things. There's nothing there which this viewer would associate with "cinematic", and the closeups in particular scream, to these eyes, "video camera". Which just goes to show how differently we all view material. Eugenia Loli wrote:Here's a short film, shot with the A7S II in slog2, using the Phantom Luts.
