CRT Filming [Under Construction]
Frequently used in music videos, stylized flashbacks, and experimental works, specifically filming off a CRT screen offers a wealth of opportunities to re-render footage multiple times, and offering filmmakers and editors deep choices for their projects.
Here a handful of samples to illustrate just a few possibilities.
CRT’s come flat and curved, colour and black & white, large and small (and in the case of camera viewfinders, also CRT’s, eenie-weenie).
Filming can be up close to capture radiant phosphors or at an angle to naturally warp & contort, as in this podcast teaser:
Cameras used to capture images off a CRT can be digital, analogue CCD (consumer and 3-chip red-green-blue ENG monsters), or tube-based (also single and 3-tube), and lenses can distort or magnify details.
Tubes can be comet-tailing & ghostly Vidicon, comet-tailing amber-hued Newvicon, or pastel-tinted Saticon, and in the case of older 3-tube cameras, the red, green, and blue tubes can be misaligned to distort footage, which in turn can be stylized with liquid over-saturated colours:
Cameras can also be inherently glitchy due to rotting capacitors, offering organic artifacts which can be further enhanced in a digital timeline – either for stylized footage & stills, or outright abstract compositions, as for this teaser trailer to promote a composer interview, with making-of details & stills in a lengthy Blog:
Prior to digital capture or recorded to videotape, images clean, misaligned, or distorted can be overlaid and blended in mixers and SEGs.
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