I learned yesterday about a movement to make filming more “green.” To do so it was said that people should use lights with lower wattage, not shoot on film, and several other ridiculous ideas. I understand the desire to “save the world,”but filmmaking is an art-form. You paint a movie with light and to do so you need big ass lighting set ups. If poorly lit they look like crap. There is no way around that. You wouldn’t ask

Then as to the whole not using film mentality because it means less bad chemicals are used when developing the film— that’s just silly too. Yeah digital technology has come a long, but it still isn’t as pretty as good old 35mm film. Also, shooting digitally means you’re using DV tapes or hard drives. Things that still will have to be disposed of and aren’t really biodegradable.

So the whole Green Filmmaking concept of making a movie without leaving a “foot print” is stupid.