Comments on: SUNDANCE ‘13: The NEXT Section Comes Into Focus https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:42:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mike https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/#comment-15640 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:53:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19675#comment-15640 just watch any frank ross film, made for spit, they actually look way better than a film like ‘this is forty’. No budget is now no-issue.

]]> By: SUNDANCE ’13: TULLY’S WRAP-UP – Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/#comment-15634 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:04:28 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19675#comment-15634 […] will likely be registered as the year the NEXT Section fully came into its own (even Mike S. Ryan agrees with me). Expanded to 10 films, this year’s NEXT Section featured a consistently superb lineup of work […]

]]> By: JDMoss https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/#comment-15632 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:20:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19675#comment-15632 Perhaps the author would explain how, exactly, “Hollywood-grade quality” is achievable at any budget? It’s true that any number of very cheap cameras can produce bright, projectable images without an obvious lack of resolution (unlike standard definition DV of past years), but these films never have the sheen, lighting control or production design found in Hollywood features.

Maybe those things don’t matter to some audiences, but they are real production values and they do make a difference, in creating dramatic illusion. So what do these “smart” directors and producers know that the rest of us don’t?

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