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        • 2016 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Video Documentation >
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    • Transition 1981 - 1982
    • Early Broadcast work: Triple Vision & Videomakers 1982 - 1985
    • 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?
    • Resurrection (for Jean Cocteau) >
      • RWA, FRPS, academic
    • Anecdotal Evidence
  • Artworks, Installations, Docs
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    • Longer Form Artworks
    • 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 Charlotte Humpston
    • 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
    • Portfolio 2 Guide >
      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 2
      • Portfolio 2 Complete list of outputs
    • Portfolio 3 Guide >
      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 3
      • Portfolio 3 Complete list of outputs
    • Portfolio 4 Guide >
      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 4
      • Portfolio 4 Complete list of outputs
    • 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
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A VERBATIM HISTORY OF THE AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

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'Digital is CMOS, Analog is CCD. The elegant compressions of wavelets combined with more economic data and energy strategies of CMOS got us over the hump into this new area of production' - Scott Billups.

'The true test of the effectiveness of a codec to an artist was - how does it look?. I've never really liked anything that I've seen that was Discrete Cosine Transform compressed, whereas wavelet-based compressions give us beautiful effective result' - Dave Stump'

Below, you can access a series of video interviews around high resolution aesthetics and technologies. I am interviewing a wide variety of people in an attempt to construct a picture of what is forming the new aesthetic. Further below, related links and articles.
 
Stephen Lighthill ASC, President of the American Society of Cinematographers 2012
Roberto Schaefer, ASC, Los Angeles 2012
Yuri Neyman, ASC, Los Angeles 2012
Geoff Boyle, Founder of Cinematographers Mailing List, UK, 2008
Art Adams, San Francisco, 2008
Steven Gladstone, New York, 2008
Mitch Mitchell, Head of Digital Imaging, Cinesite, London, 2011
Mitch Gross, Applications Specialist, New York, Part 1, 2010
Mitch Gross, Applications Specialist, New York, Part 2, 2010
David Stump and Scott Billups 1, Los Angeles, 2008
David Stump and Scott Billups 2, Los Angeles, 2008

A visit to Chater Cameras, John Chater, Berkeley California, 2012

A visit to Redgate, Ben Graham and Noah Weinzweig, Beijing, China, 2010
John Clark, UK, 2007
James Shepard, UK, 2007
Peter Giles, UK, 2007
Tom Jones, UK, 2007
Professor Amanda Beech, CalArts, California 2012
Robert Cahen and Chris Meigh Andrews, 2011
Steina and Woody Vasulka, New Mexico, USA (shot in UK), 2010
Lee Wells, New York City 2010
Professor Sean Cubitt Part 1, Australia (shot in UK), 2009
Professor Sean Cubitt Part 2, Australia (shot in UK), 2009
Grahame Weinbren, New York City, (shot in UK), 2007
Chris Meigh Andrews - Is there a Digital Aesthetic? 2007
CameraImage interviews with Cinematographers
 
Also: Architects, Data Engineers, SFX Artists, Camera Designers, Colourists, Directors, Costume and Set Designers
Verbatim History of Analogue Video

A symposium that discusses the effect of digital technologies on cinema production and contrasts the language of academics and professionals:

The Look From Capture to Display: Digital Cinema Aesthetics and Workflows. 2011

ONLINE VIDEO RESOURCES ON THE AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF DIGITAL MOTION IMAGING