“That’s just crazy..!”

       The Making Of Hose.

35mm v EVERYTHING ELSE

For the live action we realized quite quickly that our only real option was to shoot on 35mm. It seemed the best way to match the quality of the DSC images, even though film grain would be a problem – there is no grain in a digital image (only noise in low light situations.)

35mm is a proven technology that works really well when you know what you’re doing. The cameras are not any more expensive to rent than a digital camera and you can pick up short-ends and re-cans for very little money. The processing and transferring are the really big expenses.

The bottom line is that no single digital video camera could capture what we wanted and look as good as film. Sorry Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon. None of the cameras available to us at the time came anywhere close to film. They all look like HD video. Even with prime lenses. They are also cumbersome and slow – set-ups take longer, they need more light in low-light situations and more parts means more things to go wrong…so we went with 100 year old technology that has pretty much been perfected.