"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
And now that "The Bill" has got a 9 o'clock slot, they've changed the
shooting medium to something that looks altogether 'wrong',

It's called HD. ;-)

It's shot using progressive scan so you get the movement artifacts as on
film. Thompson (Grass Valley) cameras recorded on Panasonic P2 using
solid state memory cards.

Are you sure that's what it is ? Any HD that I've seen is just that. A
perfectly 'normal' looking picture, but with a higher resolution.

Trouble is they use fog filters on the cameras to reduce the resolution -
common on drama even in SD. And use long lenses most of the time to keep
the backgrounds soft.

Why should a higher res camera change the tonal composition of the
picture ? (assuming that it is being shot on video). Looks more like
they've changed from film to video, or the other way round perhaps.

No - it's always been video.

Or are maybe using a video mode that attempts to simulate film,
something like that. I saw it before on the programme when they did a
couple of 'specials'. Didn't like it then, don't like it now.

Tend to agree. But most production people hate video and will do anything
to make it look 'different'. They've also changed most if not all the
Lighting Directors. The Bill used to be known for using available light -
or making it look like it was. It now looks 'lit'.

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So Dave, do you happen to know if "New Tricks" is shot available light ? I
was watching last week's episode that I had recorded, and that looked just
like "The Bill" used to. Do you also happen to know how Euston Films shot
"Minder" ? I watched an old episode of that on ITV4 tonight, and again, it
had a lovely 'untouched' look. Was that actually film, naturally lit, or
video ?

Arfa