The Impact of Digital Technology on the Filmmaking Production Process
Authors: Fair, J.
Editors: Conway, L.
Conference: University College Dublin
Abstract:The aim of this thesis is to demystify some of the issues surrounding digital filmmaking, and to try to ascertain what impact the technology has had (and is having) upon the filmmaking production process. Ultimately, the aim is to evaluate what impact digital filmmaking has had, and will have, upon cinema as a whole. The study explores the history of changing technologies within cinema, and explores what is meant by the term ‘digital revolution’. It subsequently examines the ways that digital impacts upon the practice of filmmaking, as an industry and an art form. Furthermore, it develops what impact digital technology has upon an audiences consumption of cinema, and asks whether it changes our relationship to the cinematic experience. The study concludes upon ways in which cinema can re-establish itself in the digital age, and asks whether the current situation is really any different from the uncertainty of when cinema first began.
Research has been conducted from a number of interviews, journals, websites and textbooks in an attempt to offer a contemporary objective balanced overview of the subject. It must be noted that as the author of this work I have come from a primarily video based background, having completed an undergraduate degree in Television & Video Production at Bournemouth University in 2002. This has motivated my interest in the subject and may have some unconscious level of bias towards the video format, despite all efforts to be objective.
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