Digital Film Stats

[Stephen Webb]

Does anybody know where I can find reliable data on the number of films that are being shot digitally compared to the number shot on film?

[Don Woods]

I don't know if you will find that spasific detail but the place I would start looking is IMDB.com and maybe even IMDB's pro site. All the information would be there. But you might have to work to get it. And then good ole Google.com

[laguun]

i don´t have percentages, however....

* [[Bryan Singer]] - [[Superman Returns]],
* [[Mel Gibson]] - [[Apocalypto]],
* [[David Fincher]] - [[Zodiac]],
* [[Michael Mann]] - [[Miami Vice]], [[Collateral]],
* [[Steven Soderbergh]] - [[Guerillia]],
* [[Francis Ford Coppola]] - [[Youth without Youth]]
* [[George Lucas]] - [[Star Wars]] Episode II und III,
* [[Robert Altman]] - [[A Prairie Home Companion]],
* [[Robert Rodriguez]] - [[Sin City]], [[Grindhouse]],
* [[Lars von Trier]] - [[Dogville]], [[Manderlay]],
* [[Michael Moore]] - [[Bowling for Columbine]],
* [[Sylvester Stallone]] - [[Rocky]],
* [[David Lynch]] - [[Inland Empire]],
* [[James Cameron]] - Ghosts of the Abyss, Aliens of the Deep,
* [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]] - [[Two Brothers]],
* [[Tim Burton]] - [[Corpse Bride]]
( [[Peter Jackson]] - Crossing the line)

would be part of the statistics...

[Stephen Webb]

Which would account for considerably less than 1% then :) And of the one's you've stated, some were only partially shot digitally (and one's a short!)

[David Mullen ASC]

Trouble is, it's impossible to find out how many small low to no-budget features are shooting digitally, though it tends to be a high percentage for obvious reasons. For studio-financed features and bigger indie films, plus most big-budget TV shows and commercials, the majority are still shot on film. I would take a wild guess and say maybe 10% are shot digitally, though the past two years have seen a faster rise in digital shooting, thanks to new cameras like the Genesis, plus the intro of the HDCAM-SR portable tape recorder, which has made cameras like the Viper and Arri D20 more practical.

[Sanjin Jukic]

... thanks to new cameras like the Genesis, plus the intro of the HDCAM-SR portable tape recorder, which has made cameras like the Viper and Arri D20 more practical.


No need for INTRO of ANY "throttle" digital recorder(s).

OBSOLETE.

Read it:
"Soderbergh will shoot RED at full 4K resolution, REDCODE RAW and record to Compact Flash." DOT.
http://www.red.com/pages/sodderbergh

That's a future of the movie images acquisition. DOT.

[Stephen Webb]

Trouble is, it's impossible to find out how many small low to no-budget features are shooting digitally, though it tends to be a high percentage for obvious reasons. For studio-financed features and bigger indie films, plus most big-budget TV shows and commercials, the majority are still shot on film. I would take a wild guess and say maybe 10% are shot digitally, though the past two years have seen a faster rise in digital shooting, thanks to new cameras like the Genesis, plus the intro of the HDCAM-SR portable tape recorder, which has made cameras like the Viper and Arri D20 more practical.

I've got some idea of trends from Arri which are quite interesting. I really just wanna check my facts before claiming something that may not be entirely true (I'm giving a seminar next week).

[Petr Dvorak]

Does anybody know where I can find reliable data on the number of films that are being shot digitally compared to the number shot on film?

Just time to start special web about digital fliks :excl: