Russian documentary filmmaker
Viktor Kossakovsky for the first time in the world shot a 96 frames per second picture, Stereo and Video website reports. The standard is 24 frames per second now. Aquarella with water as the main character was presented at the Venice film festival. The shooting took place in different locations such as Lake Baikal and Greenland.
The director admits that the format was chosen in order to show realistic life: "When you see rain in the movie usually it is a white dotted line, everything merges. But it looks different. I wanted to see the rain, so I started taking test shots at 72, 120 frames per second. The regime of 96 frames per second gave the most expressive result. But it was necessary to come up with new montage programs and deceive the computer which could not cope with this format."
According to Victor Kossakovsky, this shooting allows to surprise the brain, to show things that are not really happening: "Imagine that you are driving in a car or train at high speed and look out the window. The trees in the distance are clearly visible and those ones in the foreground are smashed. The format of 96 frames per second makes them visible. The brain does not understand this effect, it perceives the space differently and here is the main trick. We do not really know how the brain deceives us. It enures us to perceive things in a certain way."
Technologies now allow capturing an event with almost any frame rate, more difficult is to demonstrate it: high frame rate video display requires changing the projection systems. The problem with sound is similar: the soundman Kosakovsky used 118 tracks, but cinema theaters are not simply equipped for this.
However, the experiment was successful. According to the director, the film will become popular and will be shown "in every cinema in the world."
Russkiy Mir
