Digital Filmmaking, 2nd Edition

 

2	Introduction to Digital Filmmaking

 

In this chapter, we describe the developing digital filmmaking methods and how technological innovations are redefining how films are made. The previous chapter contained an outline of the multitude of individuals involved and the accepted and traditional filmmaking process, honed by years of experience, trial, and error. For almost 100 years filmmaking has seemed not to change very much. Film is put in a camera, exposed, edited, sound is added, and viewers are, usually, either enthralled or disappointed. However, filmmaking has, indeed, experienced a change. The gradualness of the various changes, however, has been so slow, and based on refinements to analog technology, to cause the casual observer to ...