2nd Edition

Film Technology in Post Production

By Dominic Case Copyright 2001
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

An easy to follow, quick reference introductory guide for beginning professionals and students in filmmaking and postproduction. It explains all film laboratory procedures in the context of the wide range of technology that is used by filmmakers, explaining what happens and why at every stage. A technical understanding of film processing and printing, telecine and laboratory and digital processes... Read more
Film Technology in Context; Origins of Film and Video; Film and Video: the differences; Film Versus Video-or Film with Video; Digital Film; Post Production Pathways; Film Versus Video Production; Traditional Sprocket Edit, Film Finish; Non-Linear Edit, Film Finish; Non-Linear Edit, Video Finish; Supervision; Lab Estimates; Insurance, Liability, Troubleshooting Tests; Film Stock; 35mm Film; 16mm Film; Types of Colour Film Stock; Black and White Film Stocks; Film Processing; Additive and Subtractive Colour; Colour Specification and Perception; The Photographic Emulsion; Film Emulsion Layers; Developing the Image; The Processing Sequence; Process Control Standards; Units of Density; Gamma; Contrast and Latitude; Graininess; Black and White Negative; Pushing and Flashing; Cross-Processing; Bleach Bypass (Negative); Alternative Styles of Print; Film Printing; The Film Printing Machine; Colour Correction in Printers; Film Grading Techniques; Film Grading for Answer Print; Lad Exposure and Grading Line-up; Film Cleaning; Clean-up Processes; Wet Gate Printing; Work Prints: Negative Reports; Work Prints; Selecting and Screening; Technical Problems at Rushes; Negative Matching; Keykodes; Negative Cutting; Preparing for Negative Cutting; Cutting to an EDL; Extracting Select Negative; Splices; A- and B- Rolls; Laboratory Processes; Duplication; Emulsion Geometry; Super 16: Special Considerations; Making the Blow-Up(1); Making the Blow Up(2); Super 35; Other Film Formats; Frameline Masking; Optical Effects Printers; Optical Effects; Rostrum Camera; Titles; Printing from Black and White; Mixing Black and White and Colour Footage; Archival and Stock Footage; Trailers; Sound Transfer, Edit, Mix, Sync; The Final Mix; The Optical Sound Negative and Print; Analogue Soundtrack Prints; Syncing Picture and Sound Negatives; Analogue Soundtrack Quality; Digital Soundtracks; Grading, Answer Print, Release Prints; The Answer Print; Release Prints; The Film Projector; Release Prints in Use; Film Storage and Preservation; Archival Restoration; Telecine Transfers; Telecine Machines (1); Telecine Machines (2); Which Format: Tape or Disk?; Film and Video Frame Rates; Video Transfers: Hybrid Frames; Matching Film and Video Frame Counts; Timecode; Logging Keykodes and Timecodes (1); Logging Keykodes and Timecodes (2); Synchronizing Rushes (1); Synchronizing Rushes (2); Film for Telecine Transfer; Grading on Telecine: Rushes Transfers; Grading on Telecine: Masters; Masking for TV; Digital Television and Widescreen; Digital Processes; Digital Resolution; Digital Origination; Scanning and Recording; Calibrating the Film Recorder; Digital Grading; Digital Effects for Film; Kine Transfers: Video to Film; Digital Cinema; Glossary and Index.

Biography

Dominic Case

Review of the previous edition:

'This is such a good, detailed and yet easily understood primer on the laboratory and post process, that most film-makers won't need to go any further. Well worth putting on the bookshelf.'
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