The Cinematographic Horizon of Documentary Filmmaking:: the impact of HD VideoTechnology

• Autores: Kurtuluş Özgen
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 1236-1241
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • In the last two decades of the 20th century, parallel to global trends, documentary filmmakers in Turkey haveextensively chosen videography (video based aesthetics) over 35mm/16mm films due to its cost and practicalityadvantages. The documentaries produced in this period shed the narrow confines and limited flexibility of SD videotechnology, which in a way had become a bottleneck in cinematography and visuality.With the emergence of HD video technology, Turkish documentary filmmakers have begun to regain thecinematographic language and flexibility they had lost/abandoned. With the HD video format narrowing the gap withfilm quality everyday, visuals of documentary cinema started to evolve towards the high depth and high resolutionoffered by HD technology.In this paper, I will discuss how a new technology like HD video had a tremendous impact on the visuality of anation’s documentary filmmaking. Filmmakers and cameramen have finally had the chance to exploit their visualpotentials in ways that were not possible before. The actual results of this rapid change in visual context can be seenin new Turkish documentaries.