ChrisC
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A lot of people have expressed their wishes for the Estate to release Michael's music videos in HD/Blu-Ray, particularly following the disappointment at the Vision package.
Subsequently, many have expressed concern over the costly nature of this task and the sheer amount of work required to recreate the digital effects etc. for such a project.
To me this is something that feels really important. Not only for now, but for generations to come to enhance and preserve Michael's visual masterpieces. When I look at Michael's videos broadcasting on television today they look so messed up, cropped and stretched and worse than SD. The magic is of course still there, but I feel these works of art deserve to prosper and be seen, really in the way they were meant to be. The quality of the videos doing the rounds today just leaves a LOT to be desired to me.
So the idea I had was largely fantasy, but practically it makes a lot of sense to me...
Could the Estate not handpick say 5-7 of Michael's most noteworthy music videos, transfer them into HD, remaster, yaddy yaddy yadda, do accompanying short making ofs and impact retrospectives etc. with the directors and whoever else and then release individually onto Blu-ray and/or do a television special? Each week a new video released/shown on television - similar to the Visionary project I guess.
With Bad Wembley the quality was poor, we all knew that, so I wonder how many people didn't bother to buy physical copies and just watched on youtube etc? I'm sure a blu-ray project like this would sell extremely well amongst fans AND the public. The public have all sorts of opinions when it comes to Michael, we know that. But one thing there's rarely any argument over is Michael's dominance and brilliance in the music video medium. I think a series like this would get a fair amount of attention. Additionally, with the posthumous albums, and the holograms and whatever else, there's always a question over whether this is the right thing to do by Michael but I can't see how anyone would object in theory to a project such as this. What I couldn't really say is if the cost to make it would be prohibitive etc. I know some of the short films had effects that were edited on video and would need to be re-created. It seems this would indeed be an expensive undertaking.
But you look at Jaws and The Wizard of Oz and whatever other audio visual marvel, they have all had the remaster Blu-ray treatment due to their importance. To me Michael's short films are just as important.
I'd be interested to know what everyone thought.
Subsequently, many have expressed concern over the costly nature of this task and the sheer amount of work required to recreate the digital effects etc. for such a project.
To me this is something that feels really important. Not only for now, but for generations to come to enhance and preserve Michael's visual masterpieces. When I look at Michael's videos broadcasting on television today they look so messed up, cropped and stretched and worse than SD. The magic is of course still there, but I feel these works of art deserve to prosper and be seen, really in the way they were meant to be. The quality of the videos doing the rounds today just leaves a LOT to be desired to me.
So the idea I had was largely fantasy, but practically it makes a lot of sense to me...
Could the Estate not handpick say 5-7 of Michael's most noteworthy music videos, transfer them into HD, remaster, yaddy yaddy yadda, do accompanying short making ofs and impact retrospectives etc. with the directors and whoever else and then release individually onto Blu-ray and/or do a television special? Each week a new video released/shown on television - similar to the Visionary project I guess.
With Bad Wembley the quality was poor, we all knew that, so I wonder how many people didn't bother to buy physical copies and just watched on youtube etc? I'm sure a blu-ray project like this would sell extremely well amongst fans AND the public. The public have all sorts of opinions when it comes to Michael, we know that. But one thing there's rarely any argument over is Michael's dominance and brilliance in the music video medium. I think a series like this would get a fair amount of attention. Additionally, with the posthumous albums, and the holograms and whatever else, there's always a question over whether this is the right thing to do by Michael but I can't see how anyone would object in theory to a project such as this. What I couldn't really say is if the cost to make it would be prohibitive etc. I know some of the short films had effects that were edited on video and would need to be re-created. It seems this would indeed be an expensive undertaking.
But you look at Jaws and The Wizard of Oz and whatever other audio visual marvel, they have all had the remaster Blu-ray treatment due to their importance. To me Michael's short films are just as important.
I'd be interested to know what everyone thought.
I also love the idea of something like this being available on MTV, vh1, BET. :yes: