Thank you Mr. Graeme. I often remind myself within this current surge of technology that is sweeping up the new world (myself included), its important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Time and time again, the same debate over “film vs digital” surfaces and while some feel they need to dictate, others offer their own two cents and many sit back and watch the show…to what extent does it really matter? Some artist use oil, others acrylic…what do you prefer? This is how I see it and there are times we choose the medium, other times the medium chooses us.

Indie filmmakers embrace the digital age mainly cause it is the one brush they can afford. I grew up watching film, learned how to cut on film and somewhere along the line the digital boom took place. Naturally I adopted it. We were were quick to jump on the train, to get our feet wet and start making movies cause we could, cause it was cheap and where you will find profit, you will eventually find Hollywood. Who cares if Steven Spielberg refuses to let go of film, its his preferred medium, to each his own. Hit the jump for a to see what Mr. Spielberg had to say.

“Sadly, in twenty years, movies will all go digital. There will be no photochemical steps – no film, no developing, no correcting the color in the lab and having a hellacious time doing it. It will all be too easy and very clean and very slick and, I think, very souless. The little imperfections are what make film a great art. When it loses that -

 

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