06-13-2017, 02:53 AM
What a trip. Twilight Zone just came on and it was super strange looking. It looked like a home video... like it was shot on a digital video camera set to black and white.
You know that video taped, as opposed to film look? Like a soap opera. It has a very distinct look. This was 1961!
I read about it... I had to look this up, so I googled "Twilight Zone video tape or film" and found that in 1961 CBS informed the producers that, at $65,000 per episode, they were over budget. So they decided to video tape the rest of that season to try to save money. There were only 6 episodes shot on very early video!
It looks so surreal. I actually thought it was a remake and that they were trying to make it look like the original. The video format makes it look very clear in a strange way.... like it almost glows and the movement seem like HD.... like there are way more frames per second than film has, which is 24 frames per second I think.
The last video HD video camera I bought was like 7 years ago and it has ""cinema mode" which cuts the frames down to film speed and tries to emulate the depth of field and the lighting of film. But this Twilight Zone episode looks like it could have been shot on this camera in black and white mode yesterday. Very interesting.
You know that video taped, as opposed to film look? Like a soap opera. It has a very distinct look. This was 1961!
I read about it... I had to look this up, so I googled "Twilight Zone video tape or film" and found that in 1961 CBS informed the producers that, at $65,000 per episode, they were over budget. So they decided to video tape the rest of that season to try to save money. There were only 6 episodes shot on very early video!
It looks so surreal. I actually thought it was a remake and that they were trying to make it look like the original. The video format makes it look very clear in a strange way.... like it almost glows and the movement seem like HD.... like there are way more frames per second than film has, which is 24 frames per second I think.
The last video HD video camera I bought was like 7 years ago and it has ""cinema mode" which cuts the frames down to film speed and tries to emulate the depth of field and the lighting of film. But this Twilight Zone episode looks like it could have been shot on this camera in black and white mode yesterday. Very interesting.
