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  • The Present & The Past
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    • Vida 1976 - 1981
    • Transition 1981 - 1982
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    • Triple Vision & Channel 4 1985 - 1992
    • A Trip Sideways to the BBC
    • Cinematography and Scripting 1992 - 2006
    • Academia and a developing Artistic Practice 2007 - 2016
    • 2015 & 2016 Cinefest Bristol International Festival of Cinematography
    • Sedition 2015 - Present >
      • Sedition 2015 - Larger
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    • 2025 and beyond?
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      • RWA, FRPS, academic
    • Anecdotal Evidence
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    • Installations 1992 - The Present >
      • Proposed Exhibition
    • Short works with a life of their own
    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Shawn Bell
    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Emily Burridge
    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Al Lethbridge
    • Documentaries 70s to 90s
    • Channel 4 - Moving Image Art Resources
    • Blink 2003 to 2012
    • Work on Racism 1976 - 2000
    • Short Dramas
    • Music Industry Work
    • Music and Sound 1969 - 1975
    • An Early History of Video Art in the UK
    • Theatre Work
    • The Cold War Game: The Soviet Union
  • Phd
    • Abstract >
      • Aims of the Critical Commentary
      • Introduction: practice as research as an investigative tool and methodology
      • Prologue: My Prior Development as an Industry Practitioner, Artist & Academic
    • Portfolio 1 Guide >
      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 1
      • Portfolio 1 Complete list of outputs
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    • Phd Conclusion >
      • Consolidated Bibliography of Works Referred to in the Critical Commentaries
      • Key Propositions from the Research Period
      • Complete List of Outputs
      • Extra Resources >
        • ​1. Context for Research from 1971 forwards
        • ​2. Emerging technologies in industry prior to the research period (2007)
        • ​3. High Resolution Research 2007 - 2010
        • 4. Higher Dynamic Range Research 2010 - 2016
        • 2016 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Video Documentation >
          • Cinefest 2016 Trailer
        • 2015 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Video Documentation
        • The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography >
          • The FIlms of Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC at Encounters 2013 >
            • Professor Duncan Petrie on the structure of film training in the UK
            • An introduction to 'Resolution'
            • Projection Mapping
            • An Introduction to Motion Capture
            • Cinematographers Discuss Their Role
            • The Neurocinematics of FIlm: Hasson et al
            • RGB-Z Depth Capture in real time
            • The Future of Display Technology
            • CMIR ONE >
              • 18 Seconds
              • BOUNCE
              • 7 seconds
              • 4 seconds
          • Verbatim Interviews
          • The Verbatim History of the Aesthetics and Technologies of Analogue Video
          • A History of Video Art
          • Discussions

Key Outputs of Portfolio Four: Understanding Digital Cinematography

Each Portfolio has a section like this that seeks to limit the research work that has to be addressed by examiners - do look at the drop down menu for the complete list of artefacts or use this link:  Portfolio 4 Complete List of Outputs
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Please click here for Complete list of outputs in Portfolio 4
Instructions for accessing: The URLs in the list below will lead to online videos or the text of articles, papers or book chapters
IMPORTANTLY IN THIS PORTFOLIO:
As you'll see there are many online resources so an attempt to cut them down is difficult. Perhaps with the online resources that have many elements, please scan through one or two to get the sense of the work undertaken.
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KEY ONLINE RESOURCES
  • Flaxton T, (2008) The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography  After clicking link here click picture of myself and Geoff Boyle on arrival at link
            This currently comprises of over 25 practitioners and theorists 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
  • Flaxton T, (2011) The Look From Capture to Display
            This symposium was recorded and placed online and reveals a developing language between academics and professionals – which took place in a 
            public forum. The first session is available here – look at the commentary around this event or the drop down menu for the complete list for the other 4 URLs
            http://www.dshed.net/media/the-look-session1-apr2011.mp4
  • Flaxton T, (2011) Notes on Digital Workflows  This is a summation of relevant issues in Digital Cinematography produced for Creative England and Watershed Media Centre on the subject of Digital Workflows for professionals, academics and students of cinematography http://www.visualfields.co.uk/DIGITALWORKFLOWS.pdf or click on the file symbol to the right - also states the rules for Data Cinematography and suggests production pathways, plus clarifies difficult terms.
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  • Flaxton T, (2015) The 2015 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Online Resource
            There are a set of online sessions that constitute workshops within the 2015 Festival which I organised and presented throughout.  Click here to access and
            click for full screen: http://motionimageresearch.weebly.com/2015-bristol-international-festival-of-cinematography-video-documentation.html
  • Flaxton T, (2016) The 2016 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Online Resource
            ​click for full screen: http://motionimageresearch.weebly.com/2016-bristol-international-festival-of-cinematography-video-documentation.html​​​
KEY INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENTS
  • Flaxton T, Spark S (2016) Four camera and Lens Tests (7 minute Video as a descriptor of the events) were made available to the professional community via presentations at NAB Las Vegas and IBC Amsterdam. The industry reports are very technical and the 2016 lens test can be accessed here:
https://cinematography.net/CML-CMIR-Lens-Tests.html

A file of a report for Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education on the efficacy of the Camera and Lens Tests has been removed because it is confidential.
KEY ARTEFACTS
  • Flaxton T, Humpston C (2016) To Stand and Stare: An English Landscape, 70 minute single screen work investigating ideas of place and space and the notion of truth in art and documentary Password: Somerset2473 https://vimeo.com/287655942 2nd iteration 2016
  • Flaxton T, (2012/2016) The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali), The Bristol Triptych: The Intersection of Dreams Triptych 2014 https://vimeo.com/manage/314054471/general
  • Flaxton T, (2014) Kings Canyon Cinemontage   https://www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton/kings-canyon-northern-territory
  • Flaxton T, (2012) The Human Condition - an HDR project for Sim2 Display. As this was encoded for HDR it will not play back at the correct luminance - however, it will give a flavour of what we were trying to achieve with a range of luminance
 
KEY EXHIBITIONS
  • Flaxton T, (2016) In Other People’s Skins, Presidential Palace, Florence
  • Flaxton T, (2015) In parallel, The Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, Triptych, The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali) 1st Visit
  • Flaxton T, (2015) In parallel:  Bristol Cathedral, The Bristol Triptych: The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali)
 CO-AUTHORED ARTICLE BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WHITE PAPER
  • Price, Bull, Flaxton, Hinde, Salmon, Thomas, Zhang, (2013) The Production of Higher Dynamic Range Video
            Co-authored BBC Research and Development White Paper on HDR Production,     
            ​https://www.academia.edu/5125103/Production_of_Higher_Dynamic_Range_Video
KEY ARTICLES
  • Flaxton, T. (2013) Knowledge exchange as a practice.  Click image of Book Cover for access to article - Journal of Media Practice, 14 (3). pp. 211-230. ISSN 1468-2753 
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  • Flaxton, T. (2013) The Future of the Moving Image Click file image to the right to download
            ​Initially a conference paper, then an online peer-reviewed article. http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/9655
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BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Flaxton, T. (2013) HD Aesthetics and True Digital Cinematography
            Book Chapter for ‘Digital Light’, Editors: Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, Nathaniel Tkacz and Les Walkling (eds),
            Digital Light, Sydney: fibreculture/Open Humanities Press, Full
            Text http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Cubitt-Palmer-   
            ​Tkacz_2015_DigitalLight.pdf 2013 http://www.visualfields.co.uk/DigitalLight.pdf
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  • Flaxton,T. (2016) CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension. 
    In: Amayo Caldwell, G., Smith, C. and Clift, E., eds. (2016) Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces. Bristol, UK: Intellect. ISBN 9781783205608 https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Digital_Futures_and_the_City_of_Today.html?id=Y3swjgEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y
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KEY CONFERENCES
  • Flaxton,T. (2012) The Cinematographers Eye, The Academic’s Mind and the Artist’s Intuition: Exhibiting Video Conference
            Westminster http://www.academia.edu/1486325/The_Cinematographer’s_Eye_The_Academics_Mind_and_the_Artists_Intuition
  • Flaxton,T. (2013) The Future of the Moving Image
            International Symposium of the Electronic Image, Sydney 2013.  Info ISEA 2013 Laura Fisher [email protected]
  • Flaxton,T. (2015) Waves of Technology
            ISEA 2015 Vancouver Chair of panel and panel presentation
            https://www.academia.edu/38235460/_Waves_of_Technology_for_ISEA_Vancouver_Including_script_for_panel_introductions.pdf
 
KEY INVITED TALKS TO RESEARCH COMMUNITIES
  • Flaxton,T. (2011) The Future of High Resolution Imaging
            Invited talk to BBC Research and Development and members of the engineering teams, BBC Bristol
  • Flaxton,T. (2015) HDR Technology and the Future
            Science and Technology Committee Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
  • Flaxton,T. (2016) The Mind, the Gaze the Lens and the Sensor: Future Cinematography
            ​American Society of Cinematographers Cinematography Summit 
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