The Digital MediascapeWeek Three

Production: Pirates, Images and Music

• Key concepts• Image making

• Historical context• Application to Pirates

• Film music and technology• Historical context• Application to Pirates

A post-medium condition

Capture

Capture Post-production

Capture Post-production

Mastering

Capture Post-production

Mastering Projection

Lev Manovich

1. Live action is displaced

1. Live action is displaced

2. Loss of indexical relationship

1. Live action is displaced

2. Loss of indexical relationship

3. A new painterly realism

1. Live action is displaced

2. Loss of indexical relationship

3. A new painterly realism

4. Editing and SFX collapse

digital film = live action material + painting + image processing +

compositing + 2-D computer animation + 3-D computer

animation

Culture+

CreationDigital cinema

Culture+

Reception

Does new technology lead to new films?

The image

The academy ratio

Widescreens

Jan Brueghel‘The Arrival of the Animals into Noah’s Ark’ (1613)

Film music

‘Silent’ films and early music

Erich Wolfgang Korngold(1897 - 1957)

Max Steiner(1888 - 1971)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz 1938)

The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz 1940)

Bernard Herrmann(1911 - 1975)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock 1958)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle 1941)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise 1951)

Bonnie and Clyde(Arthur Penn 1967)

2001: A Space Odyssey(Stanley Kubrick 1968)

Bonnie and Clyde(Arthur Penn 1967)

2001: A Space Odyssey(Stanley Kubrick 1968)

John Williams

(Irvin Kershner1980)

John Williams

(Irvin Kershner1980)

Hans Zimmer

Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt

Gladiator (Zimmer) and Pirates (Badelt)

Gladiator (Zimmer) and Pirates (Badelt)

James Horner

James Horner

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

Klaus Badelt Lorne Balfe

Tom Gire Nick Glennie-Smith

Henry Jackman Trevor Morris John Sponsler

Geoff Zanelli Bruce Fowler

Does new technology lead to new films?