April 28, 2008

EPIC BATTLES: FILM VS VIDEO

 “‘For this issue, we attempted a unique approach by asking our writers to select a filmmaker who’s traditionally worked in film and has moved to digital video, as a brief sidestep or a career-changing ideological statement,’” announce Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert. ‘Then we asked them to contrast and compare this digital foray with their earlier cinematic style (unfortunately no one picked up the offered gauntlet of The Godfather vs Youth Without Youth)…. Do we see differences in shooting style? Has digital editing had an impact? What does this all mean in terms of aesthetics? Or storytelling?’”

Read the whole thing here. Fascinating.

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