The B and W

[Jack Scorpion]

Aronovsky shot PI in B&W to save money.

D.O.A. with Dennis Quaid is partly in B&W? I forget now.

In the last 30 years, B&W has been pretty gimmicky. Even in Schindler's List. Movies are shot in B&W to make them seem old, I guess. The real advantage of filming in B&W is the wide range of light and shadow that you are allowed to work with, yet only a few movies actually take advantage of this.

 

[MrBern]

Aronovsky shot PI in B&W to save money.

D.O.A. with Dennis Quaid is partly in B&W? I forget now.

In the last 30 years, B&W has been pretty gimmicky. Even in Schindler's List. Movies are shot in B&W to make them seem old, I guess. The real advantage of filming in B&W is the wide range of light and shadow that you are allowed to work with, yet only a few movies actually take advantage of this.

But how many of these films are actually shot on B&W filmstock? I get the impression that a lot fo them are shot in color & then converted.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

But how many of these films are actually shot on B&W filmstock? I get the impression that a lot fo them are shot in color & then converted.

Films like Schindler's List couldn't be filmed in color or the lighting would have been very difficult to compare when they convert it. I would think if you plan on having a film in black and white, it would be filmed in black and white, or whatever lighting and colors you used have no real use. Sin City was filmed entirely in Color for effect purposes, aka, the Green Screens and it was shot on digital, not film.