Oysters Oysters, Oysters everywhere

I watched a stunning 4 minute video about the past, present and future, of motion picture camera, with the evolution of new technologies, allowing otherwise impossible shot without them. But it got me thinking, with all this new technology, is it advancing the quality of filming or is it making it worse and more lazier.
with the invention of sound within movies the cameras had to be silenced from the loud noises that they often made from running the film, this often ment being put into small silent rooms with the camera opperators, which restricted the creativeness of the shots. This made made the cinematography much less interesting and able to use the cinematography to help tell the story. It wasn’t until much later when cameras became more silent and smaller in which allowed cinematographers to play with the shots.

 

And now it’s happening all over again, with lighting. With more and more cameras coming out with a higher native ISO. It’s allowing cinematographers to become lazy again but this time with lighting. The higher ISO cameras means cinematographers use Oyster lighting more and more, instead of using lighting. This is easily found within indie films, with being on a tight budget the DOP’s use more shots without any lighting involved (Oysters), which intern saves more money with working with a small budget. With comprising of mostly oyster shots thes film take on more of a documentary feel. Which unless that is the goal, can compromise the shots from having a “CINEMATIC LOOK”.