What is the UK Digital Screen Network?

What is the UK Digital Screen Network?

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Why?

Digital Cinema Fact Hunt

1. Write a one sentence definition of digital cinema

2. What was the date of the first digital projection? What was the film?

3. What does DCP stand for and what is it?

4. How much does it cost to print on an 80-minute feature film?

5. How much does it cost to copy a 80-minute feature film onto a hard drive?

6. Which three directors have publicly criticized digital cinema and why?

7. How much does it cost to convert a movie theatre to digital?

What is the UK Digital Screen Network?

To what extent does it benefit…AUDIENCES?

What is the UK Digital Screen Network?

To what extent does it benefit…INSTITUTIONS?

What is the UK Digital Screen Network?

Homework

Find out where your local digital screen is and find out what films they have screened on it.

Consider the extent to which the mission of the digital screen network is being achieved or not.