Francis Ford Coppola Developing LIVE Cinema!

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The production format was perhaps most akin to live television: Actors performed onstage for an audience while a crew, orchestrated by the director himself, captured the proceedings on 22 cameras. Each shot was painstakingly crafted as one would on a regular film set—hence a certain cinematic effect—in a carefully designed sequence, spanning the narrative’s 52 minutes. Coppola intended this summer’s production as a kind of proof-of-concept for an expanded rendition he is currently working on

“We have been looking at recorded art now for 200 years,” said Coppola, during a lecture to his team of professionals and students from OCCC (where his longtime producer Gray Frederickson is an artist-in-residence). “From the photograph, to the Victrola, to the motion picture, to television; we’re basically looking at canned art. The public is watching sports and going to rock concerts, so there must be a yearning to break that cycle of the canned.”

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"Ultimately, this experiment at OCCC was an attempt for me to try 'Live Cinema.' We started out with these scenes, and as we began to progress, I typically, as what happened with 'Apocalypse Now,' I overreach," Coppola said at an on-campus press conference attended by several of the students and faculty who worked on the project. "Reach higher than you can do, and then that moment when you may fail is where you achieve the sublime. And that's what we did in this little workshop."

"What we attempted at OCCC these last three weeks, you couldn't do three years ago because the cameras [digital] didn't quite exist, the lights didn't quite exist. The technology of television has so rapidly advanced due to sports, due to the big football games and the World Cup."

This sounds awesome! 

I'd love to experience it for myself.

As long as it doesn't suck like Jack.

Mecha wrote:

As long as it doesn't suck like Jack.

Why are you referring to yourself in third-person?