2 posts tagged “movie”
We went to the zoo yesterday both for Annika's benefit and mine. Annika loves the zoo, and I wanted to try out my new Lumix LX3 camera. In addition to getting used to shooting stills with it, I wanted to try out the 24p HD video recording feature.
Bats and lemurs seemed like the best possible subjects, and The Fragile Forest is our favorite exhibit at the zoo...
Neither lemurs nor bats disappointed. The movie at the left has been reduced to half-resolution for your web viewing pleasure and has color commentary by Annika as a bonus.
To get a better idea of why we love the Singapore Zoo, keep in mind one of the few complaints reviewers have had about my new camera: the lack of any real telephoto functionality from its 24-60mm equivalent lens. It's a great wide-angle camera. You just need to get really close to your subjects. And I did. And then they fought over sugar cane!
Bats and lemurs seemed like the best possible subjects, and The Fragile Forest is our favorite exhibit at the zoo...
Neither lemurs nor bats disappointed. The movie at the left has been reduced to half-resolution for your web viewing pleasure and has color commentary by Annika as a bonus.
To get a better idea of why we love the Singapore Zoo, keep in mind one of the few complaints reviewers have had about my new camera: the lack of any real telephoto functionality from its 24-60mm equivalent lens. It's a great wide-angle camera. You just need to get really close to your subjects. And I did. And then they fought over sugar cane!
As you may or may not be aware, media in Singapore is censored. For the most part, it's not terribly noticable. I've encountered Internet censeorship exactly once when I tried to follow a link from digg.com to a "crazy Christian anti-gay comic" which turned out to be a Chick Publications comic. If you followed that last link outside of Singapore, you go to the website for the horrifying Christian tract publisher. If you are in SIngapore, you get this.
Anyway, it's not the quantity of Singapore's censorship that I want to address, but the quality. This past Friday night we went to see Sex and the City and even after all the signs and warnings about "no one under 18 being admitted," it was clearly censored.
While we don't know exactly what was cut, we know exactly where it was cut from. The edit was almost comical. In the middle of a sex scene, there was a jump in the soundtrack and the image went a few sprocket holes out of frame for a second. What the...?
Then, 45 minutes later, it happened again. Start sex scene and...pop...jump. Ugly, ugly splice.
Yes, I object to censorship. But, if you have been to see a movie with me, you know I am super-sensitive to theatrical presentation. I was way more offended by the poor quality of the splices than the fact that material had been excised.
Cut between the frames people! Between the frames! I wonder where those sections of film are now and I wonder if they get put back when the prints are returned to the studio.
Anyway, it's not the quantity of Singapore's censorship that I want to address, but the quality. This past Friday night we went to see Sex and the City and even after all the signs and warnings about "no one under 18 being admitted," it was clearly censored.
While we don't know exactly what was cut, we know exactly where it was cut from. The edit was almost comical. In the middle of a sex scene, there was a jump in the soundtrack and the image went a few sprocket holes out of frame for a second. What the...?
Then, 45 minutes later, it happened again. Start sex scene and...pop...jump. Ugly, ugly splice.
Yes, I object to censorship. But, if you have been to see a movie with me, you know I am super-sensitive to theatrical presentation. I was way more offended by the poor quality of the splices than the fact that material had been excised.
Cut between the frames people! Between the frames! I wonder where those sections of film are now and I wonder if they get put back when the prints are returned to the studio.
