We're alarmed nowadays by the prospect of deep fakes, but in a sense, filmmaking is always about making us believe something that didn't happen as portrayed.
I think it's fair to be alarmed by deepfakes: people have been manipulating tapes and photographs as long as the technologies have existed, but it's a sea-change to be able to fabricate a moving image from whole cloth and have it be indistinguishable from unedited news, especially since we have enough problems with ordinary disinformation already. But filmmaking is a definitionally weird art form. You put a whole lot of real time together and you get something that never happened. It comes built-in haunted.
There was never a seamless story; it was always a mosaic. (I know there are exceptions, movies and reportage that don't involve takes or cuts, but as a rule.)
Editing is one of the elements of filmmaking I find most interesting and in some ways know the least about, because the underlying mechanisms make intuitive sense to me and I am not sure I have any creative instinct for the techniques; I have never, for example, wanted to learn how to vid. There are so many ways in which I am not audiovisually oriented, except I am interested by movies.
I knew a guy who had sliced off the top part of his thumb...
On a Hollywood set or just cutting himself a bagel?
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I think it's fair to be alarmed by deepfakes: people have been manipulating tapes and photographs as long as the technologies have existed, but it's a sea-change to be able to fabricate a moving image from whole cloth and have it be indistinguishable from unedited news, especially since we have enough problems with ordinary disinformation already. But filmmaking is a definitionally weird art form. You put a whole lot of real time together and you get something that never happened. It comes built-in haunted.
There was never a seamless story; it was always a mosaic. (I know there are exceptions, movies and reportage that don't involve takes or cuts, but as a rule.)
Editing is one of the elements of filmmaking I find most interesting and in some ways know the least about, because the underlying mechanisms make intuitive sense to me and I am not sure I have any creative instinct for the techniques; I have never, for example, wanted to learn how to vid. There are so many ways in which I am not audiovisually oriented, except I am interested by movies.
I knew a guy who had sliced off the top part of his thumb...
On a Hollywood set or just cutting himself a bagel?