The Impact of Digital Technology on Filmmaking Production Process

Mass Communication and Television, Film Technology

Main objective of this article is to explain some of the issues surrounding digital filmmaking and to try to establish what impact the digital technology on filmmaking production process. This study explores the history of changing filmmaking technologies within cinema and explores the meaning of digital revolution. The study concludes upon ways in which cinema can re-establish itself in the digital age, and asks whether the current situation is really any different from the uncertainty of when cinema first began. This research has been conducted from a number of interviews, websites and textbooks in an attempt to offer a contemporary objective balanced overview of the subject. It must be noted that as the author of this work I have come from a primarily audio video production based background having completed a Postgraduate degree in electronic media at Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra in 2010. It has inspired my interest in the subject and may have some uninformed level of preference towards the audio video format not with standing all efforts to be impartial.

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