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wearer of programming socks

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mid 20s | bisexual | programmer | european


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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

if you have ever once in your life watched a TV or film production, a YouTube video, or anything else that was committed to visual recording media, and thought to yourself "wow, this set looks so pristine," it is an ironclad fact that if you turned the camera 3° in either direction it would look like "guys really live like this and think it's okay"



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

one of my favorite bits of Authenticity in media is in the aaron sorkin show (derogatory) Sports Night (complimentary) in which, every single time the cameras turn off for any length of time whatsoever, two women pop out of the woodwork and wordlessly begin attacking both the hosts with lint rollers. they're visibly angry. you know that they were staring at the program monitor for the whole preceding ten minute segment going "hair. hair. there's a hair. there's a fiber" and silently but deliberately rending garments they brought for this purpose


pendell
@pendell

the second you go an inch beyond the intended 4x3 frame you see everything, all the strings, lights, cables, C-stands, everything that makes the show work. Everything is deliberately framed to work in 4x3 and absolutely nothing else, because they were working in tight sets on tight money. Also production started in 1987 so they weren't very concerned about covering for 16x9.

It's very amusing to think almost every frame of the show has all of this just a foot or so out of frame. Of course we all know deep down that's how TV works, but it's a nice reminder to actually see it.

It's like... sonder for media? Something that reminds you of what an insane amount of work goes into every second of what you're seeing.


geometric
@geometric

people who want a 4:3 show to be 16:9 are the same guys who want AI to expand the mona lisa



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