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Annotated Bibliography - Digital Film

Dancyger, Ken. (1997) The Technique of Film and Video Editing: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, Focal Press, ISBN 0-240-80255-1.

This book provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. This book includes the ‘history of film editing’, the ‘editing for the genre’, and the ‘principles of editing’. The part, ‘history of film editing’, gives a clear and ordered statement for film editing, examines from the Silent Period to New Technologies. In the part of ‘Nonlinear Editing and Digital Technology’, it explains the technological revolution and the limitation of technology. It also emphasizes on how new technology has influenced the art of editing, including MTV style, psychoanalytic ideas, and the appropriation of style over content. Correlative technical terms such as ‘special effect’, ‘digital’, and ‘optical track’ are defined clearly in this book. This book is a bridge connects the ‘concerns of film historians raised on classic linear narrative, and the concerns of contemporary theorists and film students raised on the MTV style.’ (Ayoka Chenzira, Filmmaker, Associate Professor)The author, Ken Dancyger is chairman of the Undergraduate Department of Film and Television, New York University and a past president of the University Film and Video Association.

Robert Burgoyne (2003)"Memory, History and digital imagery in contemporary film", in Paul Grainge (ed.) Memory and popular film, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 220-236, ISBN 0-7190-6375-2.

This article explores some of the implications of computer generated imagery for the cinematic representation of the past. In particular, it focuses on the most contested and controversial area of contemporary fiction cinema’s representation of the past – the use of documentary images as a mode of imaginative reconstruction or re-enactment. This article contains a series of examples, like JFK, Forrest Gump, and The Birth of a Nation, to consider the documentary images of the history of the twentieth century and the widespread use of computer generated imagery in film, which allows filmmakers to fuse photographic and digital images.

Marcus Gillezeau (2004) Hands on - A practical guide to production and technology in film, TV and new media, Sydney: Currency Press, ISBN 0-86819-682-7.

This book is written specifically for the Australian industry. It has very detailed steps of guiding to the latest film, video and new media technology. The book features production-oriented, includes some terms like convergence, multi-platform delivery, digital TV, broadband and DVD, introduces the background to the cyclical production model, how the cyclical production model works and a non-linear approach to the production cycle. What I am most interested in is the large numbers of knowledge for digital technology within this book, like the digital press kit. I think I can get an outline of process of film production. Also, this book provides detailed budgets of the process of filmmaking, a sample AV script and some useful contacts, such as Arts Law Centre of Australian, Ausfilm International, Australian Film Commission QLD and so on.

Sherri Sheridan (2004) Developing digital short films, Indiana: New Riders, ISBN 0-7357-1231-X.

This book is full of insider knowledge and hands-on tutorials that teach you new ways to tell stories and create digital films just by starting with a story idea and learning how to take that into pre-production and finally on to rendered movie. Relative the topic, the book explains how to create the shots you have planned, using layers of digital images from your favorite production tools. It includes digitally enhanced storytelling techniques, using modern 2D animation to expand realities. It also introduces design techniques, simple narrative digital effects and camera lens effects.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ,Digital film, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_film [Accessed 12 Aug. 2004]

This page contains a wide range of understanding digital film, including the definition of digital film, simply contrast between digital film and digital video systems, links of digital cameras and digital projection. It also provides the link to DPX file format which represent scanned negative density in a “10-bit long� format. The information on this page is basic introduction for digital film. One of hypertexts is ‘CFC digital lab website’. This website, Framestore CFC, is union of two of the most creative and dynamic companies in the industry, includes information about current new sletter and e-new subscriptions, production management, character, creature and effect animation and digital lab, film scanning and recording.

John Borland (2003) New Technologies, the Evangel for Film Industry http://www.blogchina.com/new/display/10787.html [Accessed 12 Aug. 2004]

This article discusses new technologies used in film. It introduces some big companies that support digital wizard, such as IBM, APPLE and SGI, and their different technologies used in film. It argues the situation of digital conservation and old film repairing in Hollywood. This article also analyses the relationship between the digitalization of film and technical budget.

Lynne S. Gross and Larry W. Ward (2004) Digital Moviemaking Belmont: Thomson Wardsworth, ISBN 0-534-56291-4.

This is a aesthetic and technological book. The disscussion of this book emphazsized the inportance of digital technologies. The book includes description for the evolution of the moviemaking process, equipments for filmmaking experiment, the princlples related to traditional shooting, nonlinear process, enhanced audio, graphics, and visual effects.

Xiong Chenyu (2003) From TV, flim to digital film http://ent.sina.com.cn/2003-11-01/1519225422.html [Accessed 12 Aug. 2004]

This article disceuues the trend of film industry based on new technology. The author discusses the advantages of digital format media compared whit traditional media. An inportant aspect in this article is the influence of the Internet. As the development of network, the networked film is developing as well rapidly. This is a new stage for digital film. Also, the article analyses the difference between networked film and digtial film. For film maker, the economy and the market demand are important, so the certain kind of film which welcomed by comsumer will be the vane and directs the film producers and the trend of film industy. A lot refernece cited in this article, from various award, to one film’s box office, from how many digital cinema in China to the number of individual terminal of the world.

Wang Xing and Zhang Peng (2003) Final Fantasy: Digtal Film Age http://www.yindw.com.cn/wintonews/200203/0306/news10592636.html [Accessed 12 Aug. 2004]

This article examines the digital technologies in film area. The digital technolygy has transformed from a tool to a current mainsream application. The articles indicates the two main fuctions of digital technology for film making. One is image compose technology, the othere one the producing of actor by computer like the toys in ‘Toy Story’. The next two sections discussed are digital shooting and digital projecting. The Author believes that the lake of technology leads to poor creativity and reduces the ability of representation. Also the author exposes some problem, like the expensive digital theater, the multi-management of the theater, the possibility of the theaters paing off and so on.

Introduction for digital Theatre System http://www.blogchina.com/new/display/40213.html [Accessed 12 Aug. 2004]

This article starts from introducing DTS Company and its services. The author introduces this DTS technology from its inventor to the films which adopted this technology. After the great successful film Jurassic Park which used DTS technology, many Hollywood movies adopted this technology. Also the DTS technology was compared with Dolby Digital. The DTS technology can extend the ability in film and music area. At last, the article looks at the further technology like dts es matrix 6.1dts es discrete 6.1dts neo6.

--Hao Zhang 13:31, 13 Aug 2004 (EST)

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