The Last Frame Of The Year.
This year has been filled with lessons learned but most importantly, change; the type of change that is truly tangible.
Last year I closed the blog with joy. I was daring, I rolled the dice, chasing my aspirations to direct, striking out hard, but learning that I could bring visions to light, even if these visions were not very strong. Now, as I truly morph into a director, and I can stand behind my visions, and furthermore, my personal change has been one so drastic that even my phsyical appearance has changed (I now carry a massive scar on my head - fell filming in Nepal, but it was God telling me to stop fucking around in TV), I can’t help but be aware of real change when I see it.
Today, somewhere in Kansas, the last roll of Kodachrome was printed. Kodak, the maker of the film used in your favorite movies, and the same film that frequented the memories you made with your still camera, until digital photography engulfed our lives and made those memories just a little duller, has called it quits on film developing. Sure, they still make film stock for movies, but this is a blatant sign that an era is coming to an end. What does the future hold for film? I’m not sure. But with Arri, Panavision, and the new kids on the block (DSLR’s, Red, Phantom, Silicon Imaging) your movies will go the way of your still pictures. Awesome, cheaper, faster to get in the edit bay, but with something slightly off.
Still, I know change must occur, and in due time we’ll get this digital thing to look better than film. If we don’t we’ll just have to go back… right?
Here’s to change, to hope, and to embracing a forward movement towards a better tomorrow. Even if it comes with an ebb and flow until we get things right.
Happy 2011.
Love,
Dan
