Digital Cinema

Ashland Independent Film Festival Training Connects New Media Skills With Local Educators — Learners became teachers last fall, as Digital Cinema grad Andy Neal and current Digital Cinema students Karl Sorenson and PJ Doolin taught a media production workshop in smartphone storytelling for K-12 educators in Southern Oregon. The training also showcased the Communication, Media & Cinema program’s ongoing partnership with the Ashland…

Student Film Showcases Small Group Communication at SOU — With the driest possible wit and a little Adobe Premier, award-winning Digital Cinema senior Nathanael Lathrop used visual storytelling to create a satirical advertisement as a project in a recent section of COMM225 — Small Group Communication at Southern Oregon University. Using stock footage of small groups, at-home workers, families…

Want to start using photogrammetry with a movie clip? Then I think you will want to hear about this. Introduction PFTrack is at the forefront of using photogrammetry to assist with the matchmoving, tracking and layout processes. …

Author: Fyodor Serzhenko This article is devoted to the JPEG2000 algorithm and will be presented in two parts. In the first part, we will discuss the key technologies of the algorithm and explain why it has become so popular in digital cinema and broadcasting. In the second part, we will…

The Communication Program at Southern Oregon University Takes First Steps Back to In-Person Instruction — On-campus learning returned to the Communication Program in Winter term, as Digital Cinema instructor Chris Lucas offered a section of DCIN 313 — Design Problems in Sound & Light featuring regular teaching sessions at the Southern Oregon Digital Media Center. …

SOU Screenwriting Course Creates Safe Space for Deep Learning on Equity and Diversity — In the wake of a year of national protest grounded in issues of equity and diversity, Digital Cinema faculty at Southern Oregon University took an opportunity to quickly respond to current events and launch an innovative course on Black screenwriting in Fall 2020. Associate Professor Andrew Gay and adjunct instructor…

There are several archetypical film aesthetics that have helped shaped and build cinema to what we understand of it today. However, for the purpose of this inquiry, only two international film movements were explored. If I were to continue this inquiry, a larger variety of movements would be considered, and…

You’ve spent a ton of time color grading your film so that it has a particular look. Now it’s time to make sure that the audience sees the same look as you intended when the film is projected on the big screen. This is where things get a little technical…