Miami Vice

[Alexander Gao]

I just don’t understand why they wold shoot video at night? As I also noticed in collateral also, the images are very grainy. It’s not like they got the best quality of images by using video. I mean, a lot of movies are shot at night (film), and look a lot less grainy and a lot more sharp than that. So, why video at night? (Unless michael mann likes the grainy look)?

Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[Lance Bachelder]

Mann liked the digital night stuff better because the latitude and quality – they actually rendered the final output at 1k to dirty up the image – so the grain in the release was put there intentionally.

Lance Bachelder
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