Dear Sara,
What is all the fuss I’m hearing about the 48 frames-per-second versions of THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY? What does 48 frames-per-second even mean?
Yours truly,
Martin K.
Dear Martin,
Each image for a film is captured on a single frame. In conventional filmmaking, there are 24 frames per each second of film. Director
Peter Jackson shot THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY at 48 frames per second, twice the normal speed. Jackson feels that film as a medium should continually be open to innovation. Fans of the 48 frames per second look praise its extreme clarity, while detractors complain that it makes what should (going by Jackson’s history as the filmmaker of LORD OF THE RINGS) be a majestic-looking motion picture instead resemble a well-budgeted offering from the BBC.
It’s In The Bag,
Sara Bellum, Editor-at-Large Buzzy Mag
