I find the soft grainy film look distracting, it's like viewing through a dirty window. All this is an attempt to make movies closer to how we see the real world, but the greater naturalism attained by a higher frame rate is still frowned upon by some. In other areas, film has strived for greater realism and naturalism, grain has been minimised, sets are more convincing, acting is more natural, writing has tended towards naturalism, visual effects are constantly evolving for greater realism. Tradition is hard to break, especially when so many people have been accustomed to a look, and make association accordingly. People continue to use 24 FPS because of convention. Nothing will ruin a viewing quite like someone trying to sell you breakfast cereal every few minutes. Television broadcast would in the past chop the image to a different ratio, television will still interrupt every ten minutes with advertising breaks. I don't hear many people complaining about which device something is viewed on. In the digital age, a director would like you to view the product in a theatre, but a lot of people view on a tiny phone screen, this alters the experience much more than a higher frame rate.
#Soap opera effect movie#
That is unchanged.Īnother however, there are many other things inflicted on a movie, that eclipse the frame rate issues.Ī studio will often edit a movie, how often have you seen a ' directors cut' on blue ray? Because the movie has had whole sequences hacked out against the wishes of the director. A democracy is based on a level within reason of personal freedom.Īltering frame rates has no bearing on cinematography. I feel this is a case of taste, and it's not ok to impose on others. Were I a movie director who has spent many hours sitting in a grading suite lovingly crafting a piece that has taken the last two years of my life, I'd want it viewed as I intended. However, sometimes one of my pieces is printed and differs but looks better. I often have artwork printed, and when they get it wrong, if the print differs from the artwork, I get pretty frustrated. I don't want films to look like real life. We are finally at a point when we can reproduce the theater experience- even surpass it sometimes- in our own homes. We respect the integrity of all artists involved in creating the original film as well as those who helped bringing the product to a form suited to be used in a home theater environment. This is NOT how they intended their work to be seen.įrom the HTF Mission Statement: We the members of the forum are interested in the film product to be recorded and reproduced as closely as possible to the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intended. When you apply after-the-fact processing like SOE, you are brazenly disregarding the artists' intent. Film is an intricate, complex medium, and the cinematography therein is a delicate balance of detail and depth, light and shadow. This is not a "everybody has different tastes and that's okay" situation. Here's my take: if you respect the art and craft of film, you want to see it the way it was intended to be seen.
I'm hoping in time HFR will become the new norm. They see it for what it is, a more true to life way of viewing filmed content. There's a younger generation who are more used to higher frame rates, via video games, they don't regard this look as cheap.
A higher frame rate will allow more of that beautiful craft to be revealed. A well crafted movie will look amazing no matter what the frame rate. I see the production values present, not the style of photography.
#Soap opera effect tv#
It's true that motion smoothing, ie insertion of frames to achieve an HFR look, is not the only thing a TV will do, there is also upscaling to 4k and sharpening, but all this combines to create a startling image.Ī lot of people hate the look, as they associate low frame rates with high quality movies, and high frame rates with low quality television production, but thats either a learned perception or just taste, and variables in taste are what makes the world interesting, I too have this learned perception, being raised on this standard, but I have put this aside and I see a better quality image. I have purchased a lot of movies on blue ray so I can enjoy them in a super sharp reality. I bought a new TV just to obtain the same look I saw in the Hobbit HFR version. I'm very late to this discussion, but I love the soap opera effect.
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