Documentary on Big Screen : Digital Cinema Training

20 June 2013. Published by Benoît Labourdette.
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I led the team for the association Documentary on Big Screen a two-day training on technologies “Digital Cinema”.

Documentary on Big Screen is an association that supports the documentary in theaters and its dissemination in general, through multiple actions.

Because of the mutation carriers diffusion film, the digitization of cinemas, the disappearance of broadcasts on film and videotape, the association that manages a catalog of 250 films, should evolve its hardware and tools . Technical choices to be made, working methods must be established, and for this it is necessary to be fully aware of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, opportunities, digital. That was the purpose of this very dense formation.

Training program “Basics of Digital Cinema”

  • Summary of the new channel (workflow) film (filming, post-production, operation).
  • Fundamentals of Digital.
  • The digital image.
  • Digital sound.
  • The projection system DCI.
  • New image and new sound formats formats.
  • Characteristics of the DCP.
  • Current Techniques subtitles.
  • Methodologies manufacturing DCP.
  • The KDM keys.
  • Transport of DCP (hard disks, FTP, subscription ...).
  • Summary of the new possibilities in the room.
  • Synthesis of new opportunities for producers and distributors.
  • Overview of the economic model and cost.

Benoît Labourdette designs and leads professional training courses for new media, within training centers (CEFPF, INA Expert, Universities) as well as directly for companies or professional networks (ARTE, Forum des images, Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, Altermédia, Drôle de Trame, SCAM, NAAIS, CFI...).

The digital revolution consists in these new technologies which populate our daily life and modify the uses, the produced contents, the channels of diffusion, the economic models, the relations, the working methods...

The training allows the appropriation of these new languages, technologies and practices, in a perspective of professional construction: discover, experiment and appropriate tools, strategies, creative techniques, based on solid conceptual foundations. The goal is to equip oneself to be able to build the future of the audiovisual field in a concrete, open, innovative and economically viable way.

You will find here a few examples of internship processes, as well as downloadable deliverables.