1. Moving pictures Session 4

2. What is digital cinema? Article by Lev Manowich Digital media redefines the very identity of cinema. New methods possible with computers: –Generation of realistic scenes with3-D computer animation –Modifying of frames or scenes –Cutting, bending, stiching, streching –Making films never actually filmed

3. History of moving pictures Cinema – the art of motion – a convincing illusion of dynamic reality Early techniques - Animation – hand painted or drawn images – manually animated – manually actioned to create movement Cinema – last decade of 19th century – photography meets motor

4. History of moving pictures From animation to cinema – reality “captured” on film – space constructed from separate image layers – real action

5. Digital cinema Computerized special effects – generated scenes with help of 3-D – live action reduced to graphics – live action functions as raw material for further compositing, animating, morphing New kind of realism, look as if could happen even if can not – image processing, reordering, cutting and pasting

6. Definition of digital film Digital film = live action material + painting + image processing + compositing + 2D computer animation + 3D computer animation Digital cinema is a particular case of animation which uses live action footage as one of it´s many elements Born from animation, cinema pushed animation to it´s boundary, only to become one particular case of animation in the end

7. New cinematic forms Non narratives / non linear narratives – music videos Images changes beyond norms of cinematic realism – CD-Rom games Relied on computers from start, both for storage and distribution New visual language Still images and graphics Discreet motion, loops Cinema reinvented on the computer screen