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Post Subject: Immersion vs. ExpectationsPosted by Paul S on: 9/7/2011
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If the HT opera idea involves "immersion", then what is it that facilitates this immersion? I think image quality can be exploited with HT, just like any other quality. As for "Fantasia", it is a great example of a film that simply exceeded everyone's expectations, in pretty much every way. Not so long ago I had a similar (for this discussion, at this point) experience with the I-Max ,3-D "Avatar". Certainly this film does not play out the same way on my big screen TV. Nor does the same DVD "La Boheme" performance play out the same way on my TV screen vs. my brother's theater.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if vid-opera would "work" in a less "intimate" setting, at all, regardless of screen size. etc; I'm thinking of watching in a pubic theater. And maybe to get the most from vid-opera visuals, the staging should be done with video in mind from the beginning. No doubt editing is huge here. But I think the screen versions of "Westside Story" and "Camelot", etc. were better on screen because they were staged for film from the beginning, and they were able to draw from what is now a fairly long tradition of film making, which has included "film-centric" sound for some time now.
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