Application Of Digital Technology In Cinema

We are living in a Digital era. Digital is changing everything including food, wearing, housing and transportation, as well as the art of vision, audio and entertainment in our life. Digital movie is inevitably coming to our life following the dawn of the Digital era. Movie is one kind of important entertainment in our life. The development and the improvement of movie are dependent upon scientific techniques. Movie has experienced different stages in its development from silent to sound tract, black-white to color, and traditional to Digital one since the first movie was born in French.This dissertation concentrates on the development of movie and the relationship of Digital movie to scientific techniques from different aspects. The development of Chinese movie is still at the crossroad of Digital movie while it is spreading in the worldwide. Chinese movie has to catch up the flow of development of world movie from the scientific standpoint. The history of development of Digital movie is short and Digital movie is still facing many challenges and difficulties. How to combine Digital movie with traditional movie to achieve the true beauty in art will be discussed in this dissertation. This dissertation consists of seven parts:Chapter 1 describes the remarkable impacts of scientific techniques to the development of movie and scientific technique will result in the maturation of movie art. Chapter 2 describes the concept of Digital movie and indicates that Digital movie will bring on revolutionized impact to the traditional movie as well as productivity and box office value of movie.Chapter 3 analyzes the history of world Digital movie and the current world disignaition of Digital movie.Chapters 4 introduces Digital synthesizing technique, nonlinear edit technique, two dimension and three dimension cartoon designation and the mechanism of VR and VRML and describes the producing processes of Digital movie.Chapter 5 describes the transition process from specific technique producing to combination of specific technique with art.Chapter 6 indicates the problems of Digital movie.Chapter 7 describes the challenges and opportunities we are facing in Digital movie in China.Based on the theoretic study, this dissertation has systematically and thoroughly studied and discussed Digital movie and television in association with analysis of production of excellent movies and televisions. Also included are related figures and data, as well as course-studying software. Up to the moment, the study of the Digital movie and television is still in the innovative phase. It is not established yet and lacks of balanced theory system. The author hopes that the dissertation will provide some help to the development of the future theory and practice of Digital movie and television.