O/P 4
Understanding Digital Cinematography
Understanding Digital Cinematography is one of a number of outputs from Flaxton’s AHRC Creative Research Fellowship (2007 – 2010): ‘High Definition Imaging: An Investigation in the Actual, the Virtual and the Hyper Real’. As a part of a scaffolded investigation this output differed from the 1st three as it was formulated as a research resource to collate and summate the knowledge gathered in Flaxton’s AHRC Felowship.
This resource now contains online interviews (around 30 specialists currently), symposia, text resources, peer reviewed articles, and a consultation document commissioned by Creative England to reveal the technical and artistic issues within this new subject area to researchers, students and professionals.
Initially it was realised that 100 years before at the birth of photochemical cinematography no verbatim reports were captured due to the lack of recording technology at the time. 100 years later at the birth of Digital Cinematography we have the technology and all of its affordances that would also allow the generation of new knowledge in the act of capture. This resource can be found at this URL: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/UDCFront.htm
Following on from the AHRC Creative Research Fellowship, Flaxton was then awarded an AHRC KTP between 2010 – 2012, then a Senior Research Fellowship with Faculty of Engineering at University of Bristol. This lead to collaborations with the Department of Experimental Psychology and BBC R&D which produced investigations into the production of the first Higher Dynamic Range, Higher Frame Rate moving-image capture and display worldwide. In 2013 Flaxton was offered a Professorship at University of the West of England and the offer to initiate a research center in Digital Cinematography.
O/P 4: Understanding Digital Cinematography
Understanding Digital Cinematography is comprised of a set on online resources, 2 Articles (ISEA 2013), 4 conference papers and 3 invited talks to research communities.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
· The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography is currently comprised of over 25 people significant in the inception of digital cinematography who discuss the effect of emerging digital moving Image capabilities and what their effect might have on the audience. These involve the development of Higher Frame Rates, Higher Resolution and Higher Dynamic Range. There are interviews with prominent academics, people who are involved in the design of the new capture and display media, artists and professionals working in the new medium. http://www.visualfields.co.uk/indexHDresource.htm
· There are a set of online resources comprising various reference works:
http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KT2.htm
· There is a summation of relevant issues in Digital Cinematography produced for Watershed Media Centre and Creative England, on the subject of Digital Workflows for academics and students of cinematography alike: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/DIGITALWORKFLOWS.pdf
· There is an 80,000 word blog updated regularly and maintained to keep abreast of this ever changing subject area, ‘High Definition and High Resolution Motion Imaging’: http://highdefinition-nomercy.blogspot.co.uk/
· There is a recording of a symposium held to try to integrate both professional and academic understanding within the subject area. This took place in April 2011 and was entitled: The Look from Capture to Display. This can be found at the following URL where there is around 5 hours online footage of the subject:
http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTThelook.htm
· At the 2010 exhibition which summed up my moving image research at the P3 Gallery in London, I approached various academics to discuss issues around the methodology of practice as research and these are available online totalling 4 hours: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTWest.htm
· The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography, currently 9 interviewees (Sept 2013) mailto:http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTVA.htm
ARTICLES
‘The Practice of Knowledge Exchange’, published early Autumn, 2013, JMP, Intellect 10,600 words. http://www.visualfields.co.uk/thepractice.pdf ARTICLES
CO-AUTHORED ARTICLE
· ‘The Production of High Dynamic Range Video’. Authors: Marc Price (1 BBC R&D), Prof David Bull (2 University of Bristol), Terry Flaxton (3 University of the West of England) Stephen Hinde (2 University of Bristol R&D), Richard Salmon (1 BBC R&D), Alia Sheikh (1 BBC R&D), Graham Thomas (1BBC R&D), Dr Aaron Zhang (2University of Bristol): 1 - BBC R&D, Wood Lane, London, W12 7SB, UK 2 - Bristol Vision Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK, 3 - University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK http://www.visualfields.co.uk/HdrIBC2013v7.pdf
CONSULTATION DOCUMENT
· Consultation Document for Creative England: “Notes on Digital Workflows”
CONFERENCES
· ‘The Developing Capabilities of Digital Cinematography’
Digital Aesthetics Conference (3), University of Central Lancashire, October 2012 http://www.academia.edu/2023909/The_Developing_capabilities_of_Digital_Cinematography_2013
· ‘Technology and the Act of Creativity at a Moment of Digital Transformation’
Mix: A Conference exploring Transmedial Writing and Digital Creativity, Bath Spa University July 2012 http://www.academia.edu/1790101/Technology_and_Creativity_at_a_Moment_of_Digital_Transformation
· ‘The Cinematographers Eye, The Academics Mind and the Artists Intuition’: Exhibiting Video Conference, 13 – 25th March 2012 Westminster http://www.academia.edu/1486325/The_Cinematographers_Eye_The_Academics_Mind_and_the_Artists_Intuition
· ‘The Concept of Colour Space as seen from the Practitioners Standpoint’
Bristol University Colour Conference at the Arnolfini Gallery July 2009 (published online at Academia.edu) 2010 http://www.academia.edu/204071/The_Concept_of_Colour_Space_as_seen_from_the_Practitioners_Standpoint
INVITED TALKS TO RESEARCH COMMUNITIES
· Capturing the Hyper Real: The Cinematographers Eye. Talk to Research Community at York University – February 29th 2012 http://www.academia.edu/1146433/Capturing_the_Hyper_Real_The_Cinematographers_Eye
· The Future of 3D, Invited talk to members of Pervasive Media Studio and General Public, Watershed Media Center, 2012.
· The Future of High Resolution Imaging, Invited talk to BBC Research and Development and members of the engineering teams, BBC Bristol
Understanding Digital Cinematography
Understanding Digital Cinematography is one of a number of outputs from Flaxton’s AHRC Creative Research Fellowship (2007 – 2010): ‘High Definition Imaging: An Investigation in the Actual, the Virtual and the Hyper Real’. As a part of a scaffolded investigation this output differed from the 1st three as it was formulated as a research resource to collate and summate the knowledge gathered in Flaxton’s AHRC Felowship.
This resource now contains online interviews (around 30 specialists currently), symposia, text resources, peer reviewed articles, and a consultation document commissioned by Creative England to reveal the technical and artistic issues within this new subject area to researchers, students and professionals.
Initially it was realised that 100 years before at the birth of photochemical cinematography no verbatim reports were captured due to the lack of recording technology at the time. 100 years later at the birth of Digital Cinematography we have the technology and all of its affordances that would also allow the generation of new knowledge in the act of capture. This resource can be found at this URL: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/UDCFront.htm
Following on from the AHRC Creative Research Fellowship, Flaxton was then awarded an AHRC KTP between 2010 – 2012, then a Senior Research Fellowship with Faculty of Engineering at University of Bristol. This lead to collaborations with the Department of Experimental Psychology and BBC R&D which produced investigations into the production of the first Higher Dynamic Range, Higher Frame Rate moving-image capture and display worldwide. In 2013 Flaxton was offered a Professorship at University of the West of England and the offer to initiate a research center in Digital Cinematography.
O/P 4: Understanding Digital Cinematography
Understanding Digital Cinematography is comprised of a set on online resources, 2 Articles (ISEA 2013), 4 conference papers and 3 invited talks to research communities.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
· The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography is currently comprised of over 25 people significant in the inception of digital cinematography who discuss the effect of emerging digital moving Image capabilities and what their effect might have on the audience. These involve the development of Higher Frame Rates, Higher Resolution and Higher Dynamic Range. There are interviews with prominent academics, people who are involved in the design of the new capture and display media, artists and professionals working in the new medium. http://www.visualfields.co.uk/indexHDresource.htm
· There are a set of online resources comprising various reference works:
http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KT2.htm
· There is a summation of relevant issues in Digital Cinematography produced for Watershed Media Centre and Creative England, on the subject of Digital Workflows for academics and students of cinematography alike: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/DIGITALWORKFLOWS.pdf
· There is an 80,000 word blog updated regularly and maintained to keep abreast of this ever changing subject area, ‘High Definition and High Resolution Motion Imaging’: http://highdefinition-nomercy.blogspot.co.uk/
· There is a recording of a symposium held to try to integrate both professional and academic understanding within the subject area. This took place in April 2011 and was entitled: The Look from Capture to Display. This can be found at the following URL where there is around 5 hours online footage of the subject:
http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTThelook.htm
· At the 2010 exhibition which summed up my moving image research at the P3 Gallery in London, I approached various academics to discuss issues around the methodology of practice as research and these are available online totalling 4 hours: http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTWest.htm
· The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography, currently 9 interviewees (Sept 2013) mailto:http://www.visualfields.co.uk/KTVA.htm
ARTICLES
‘The Practice of Knowledge Exchange’, published early Autumn, 2013, JMP, Intellect 10,600 words. http://www.visualfields.co.uk/thepractice.pdf ARTICLES
CO-AUTHORED ARTICLE
· ‘The Production of High Dynamic Range Video’. Authors: Marc Price (1 BBC R&D), Prof David Bull (2 University of Bristol), Terry Flaxton (3 University of the West of England) Stephen Hinde (2 University of Bristol R&D), Richard Salmon (1 BBC R&D), Alia Sheikh (1 BBC R&D), Graham Thomas (1BBC R&D), Dr Aaron Zhang (2University of Bristol): 1 - BBC R&D, Wood Lane, London, W12 7SB, UK 2 - Bristol Vision Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK, 3 - University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK http://www.visualfields.co.uk/HdrIBC2013v7.pdf
CONSULTATION DOCUMENT
· Consultation Document for Creative England: “Notes on Digital Workflows”
CONFERENCES
· ‘The Developing Capabilities of Digital Cinematography’
Digital Aesthetics Conference (3), University of Central Lancashire, October 2012 http://www.academia.edu/2023909/The_Developing_capabilities_of_Digital_Cinematography_2013
· ‘Technology and the Act of Creativity at a Moment of Digital Transformation’
Mix: A Conference exploring Transmedial Writing and Digital Creativity, Bath Spa University July 2012 http://www.academia.edu/1790101/Technology_and_Creativity_at_a_Moment_of_Digital_Transformation
· ‘The Cinematographers Eye, The Academics Mind and the Artists Intuition’: Exhibiting Video Conference, 13 – 25th March 2012 Westminster http://www.academia.edu/1486325/The_Cinematographers_Eye_The_Academics_Mind_and_the_Artists_Intuition
· ‘The Concept of Colour Space as seen from the Practitioners Standpoint’
Bristol University Colour Conference at the Arnolfini Gallery July 2009 (published online at Academia.edu) 2010 http://www.academia.edu/204071/The_Concept_of_Colour_Space_as_seen_from_the_Practitioners_Standpoint
INVITED TALKS TO RESEARCH COMMUNITIES
· Capturing the Hyper Real: The Cinematographers Eye. Talk to Research Community at York University – February 29th 2012 http://www.academia.edu/1146433/Capturing_the_Hyper_Real_The_Cinematographers_Eye
· The Future of 3D, Invited talk to members of Pervasive Media Studio and General Public, Watershed Media Center, 2012.
· The Future of High Resolution Imaging, Invited talk to BBC Research and Development and members of the engineering teams, BBC Bristol