Following the rise in popularity of streaming TV services in recent years, directors are trying to ensure their creations will be watched as they intended on the smaller screens. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a group of leading directors that includes Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Ryan Coogler, Patty Jenkins, and Rian Johnson is working with the UHD Alliance – a coalition whose members include Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers to create a “Filmmaker Mode” on TVs.
This mode will change the TV settings automatically to the specifications of color, contrast, aspect ratio and frame rates the creators specified. In order to develop this mode 400 filmmakers, directors and cinematographers provided input to UHDA. The Alliance also reached out to the Directors Guild of America, American Society of Cinematographers, American Cinema Editors and Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation.
Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi said that “many TVs ship with motion smoothing (and other post-processing settings) as a default.” He said that “Filmmaker Mode offers a single button that lines up the settings so it works for the benefit of the movie and not against it.” So, of you love movies, Filmmaker Mode will make your movies look much better.
