Visions of Light is a 1992 documentary film directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels. The film examines cinematography from the origins of film by interviewing the cinematographers that were involved in important and not-so important films. What struck me was the amount of control they have over the look of the film, from making something look documentrial (Dog Day Afternoon) To something vast and cinematic like Lawrence of Arabia or The Searchers. Although the process in cinematography in regards to using stock film, which the documentary mainly focuses on, is gradually moving towards complete digitisation. Decisions like, lenses, depth of field, framing, lighting and camera movements, are just as important in both formats.
To look at the digital and film comparison, I watched "Side By Side"a great documentary about industries opinion about film and digital. There were many differing opinions in the documentary, most finding digital to be less-cumbersome and expensive but only finding recently that digital has caught up to film in terms of image quality. Digital film is far easier to work on for VFX as there is no process for having to digitise the film.
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