What is the difference between "film" and "video"?
Film is something we have had around for a long time, we still have, where an image is actually exposed to a piece of celluloid which is silver highlight, that grabs the light so the darks is in the details and you actually develop it, print it. You have got a physical piece of film. Well video is similar to that in terms of it grabs an image, but we do it electronically. Light is converted into frequencies. Frequencies are converted into zeros and ones, the digital world. And then layed down on a tape and all that happens with the charge couple device or the image sensor that is on the camera. So, film is what we have always done. We record a frame of information, by exposing it to light sensitive material. And video is a piece of electronics which is light sensitive and then they can convert that same information in a way to be stored in an electronic fashion, say to a tape or a dvd. So we understand that video is an electronic image, but people still use the term film a lot when they really mean video. It is becoming kind of one term. People go out to see a film. Well in fact, a lot of the films they are seeing these days, even the Blockbuster movies, like the last Superman, or the last Star Wars film, even I am calling them film. They were really shot on video cameras. Granted, they were expensive, very high end video cameras but all of that information was recorded electronically, not being exposed to film. And then projected in film inside a theater. But even that is starting to change these days. Now we are starting to see in theaters that we go to, electronic images placed on the screen. It is just to say that video has gotten so good, that in some cases it is replacing film. But film will always have a place. There is an aesthetic quality to film that I do not believe will ever go away. There are certain films and certain things that certain films that have been made, beautifully done, that could never have been done in video. And then there are other films that look great on video as well. So you know the term film and video is becoming sort of interchangeable. So it is kind of interesting that you are not really sure, whether you are watching a video or you watching a film these days.
