Digital Technology

Digital technology has affected the way films are produced because the film is advanced. You can now come to high definiton. Your able to watch films now in 3D, the picture affect makes the film look spectacular & migical.

• New digital camera's technology rivals traditional film for quality. Example; Sony HDW-F900 camcoders using a high-definition format called HD-CAM.
• Digital viedo much cheaper than film.
• Virtually no processing neccessary before the editing stage.
• Tapes can be re-used many times -unlike film.
• By Hollywook standards digital viedo costs virtually nothing.

The Flexibility; many films already edited digitally. However, film has to be converted to digital format -edited- converted back to film. Although image is degraded  & it's costly and time consuming.

With digital it can be replayed immediattly -doesn't need to be processed like film.  Example: On Attack od the Clones -Shot in the morning & edited in the afternoon. This cuts production time & costs.

Reading Lights.

"Light is everything. It expresses idelogy, emotion, colour, depth, style. I can efface, marrate, describe. With the right lighting, the ugliest face, the most idiotic expression can radiate with beauty or intelligence"

-Frederico Fellini.

Light is very important. Light can be used to express the emotion and ideology of the character. When the lighting is low in a movie its make the scene look depressing and everyone upset.

Different lights & lighting

The set provision: what you need on set t produce an effect.

Kino light: 4 bank or 2 bank. >> Represent dat light or powerful light. (Beam of a car) Each light is 1.5 meters long.

Calm light: The light can be open or closed.

Three way combo: three separate lights.

1. first light shows a bit of shadow >showing from the left (side light)
2. second light shows another faint shadow >showing from the right (side light)
3. third light shows a clear view of an object with detail & takes the other shadows away, but the object is still in main object of the study. (back light)

Spot light: a single narrow/ round light. Used to highlight a certain feature in a far wider space.

Daylight: but is important to make sure it is over cast otherwise the image is 'HOT'.