New Doctor Who looks very cinematic. I seem to remember them going on about how cinematic it looks because they have special lenses or something. Last year (or was it the year before) they told us they were using Cooke anamorphic Prime lenses and Angenieux Optimo anamorphic zooms that will be used with Arri Alexa XT and Alex Mini cameras. I don't know who that press release was supposed to appeal to apart from Emmanuel Lubezk who I doubt was watching anyway but you never know...
However now they have these lenses we get lots of sweeping panoramas... which is great but the show seems to forget sometime that it is television. If you want to make a feature film why not do that? and we promise to traipse over to Vue and endure other people's children...
In the photo above first Doctor William Hartnell grabs onto his lapels ... a unique style of acting he created for the then very small screen because the sets and screen were so small if he waved his arms about no one could see them and he'd knock over the other actors... This crampedness makes early Doctor Who very intimate and I can't help feeling that with the expanded visuals new Doctor Who sometimes loses this intimacy a bit. Don't get me wrong it's great that the small screen can now compete with the big screen but I think it sometimes forgets what the advantages are of the small screen over the big screen? Well, I had to find something to complain about as there's no point in a review if you're not going to be critical. At least that's what Dorothy Parker told me the last time I met up with her vicious circle in our local speakeasy.
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