Terry Flaxton with Thelma Schoonmaker
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Being focused on capture and display, we recognise the need to add one of the worlds foremost editors to help steer our research direction. This knowledge will aid the cinematographer in understanding what it is the person that constructs a moving image work needs, to aid in that construction. This is not simply just for organising standard narratives, but for innovating new forms of story telling and creation of moving image art. Thelma has been a constant innovator by breaking and reinventing editing rules to provoke unease in the audience as in King of Comedy, through to playing with thriller form in Shutter Island. She has been awarded three Oscars by AMPAS. (Thelma's awards and nominations on IMDB). We are in discussion with Thelma about affiliating with CMIR.
But we are also in discussion with a number of other high level industry talents to affiliate with CMIR - not only Oscar winning cinematographers, but directors and producers too. Initially these affiliations will aid students at UWE - recently we accomplished the CML/CMIR camera tests with Visiting Professor, Geoff Boyle FKBS, where students were exposed to industry personnel and test and prep practices and the highest level of cameras in the world (there were two Phantom Flex 4k prototypes being tested.) But we also hope to arrange internships with people on productions so that students can practice as well as research the act of film-making at the highest levels. Please contact us if you wish to be removed from affiliation. |