An argument in favour of HD
April 25, 2006 – 1:10 am
On the final day of the BNMI’s HD Summit, the final panel - of film makers who had used the medium - did make a case that in some circumstances the high resolution format can add real value.
David Christensen, director of the powerful documentary War Hospital, made a comment which was particularly persuasive: “There’s so much information in the HD image that you don’t need a narrator to tell the story.”
He showed a clip of a veteran being fitted with a prosthetic leg and then attempting to take his first steps with it. It illustrated his point perfectly. I have to admit that it would have been impossible to capture that sequence with such emotional intensity in any other way.