Thursday, October 1, 2009

Cinematography & Postproduction

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BBC Training and Development at University of Greenwich

The Cinematography and Post Production course is aimed at those wishing to take up positions in the film production industry. Students work in 35mm, S16, 2K and 4K digital using equipment (current in the industry). Students on the MSc Cinematography and Post Production work using 35mm, S16, 2K and 4K digital equipment. Dr. Chris Wollard, the course director, has many years of experience working in the film industry and is an external examiner for the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of The British Kinematograph and Television Society (BKSTS).

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Like Greenwich, The Baroque Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, was used as a hospital

The University of Greenwich has a partnership agreement with BBC Training & Development and the Broadcast Production and Broadcast Post-Production are taught in conjunction with BBC Training & Development. BBC Training & Development is globally recognised as a centre of excellence. It remains at the forefront of the development and spread of training in digital technology in broadcasting.

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Greenwich University Student Union Swimming Baths c.1884



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Students playing cricket in front of the Royal Hospital School at the Queen's House, c.1898

Both outstanding results reflect the National Student Survey (NSS), an annual government run exercise, commissioned by the higher education funding councils, which polls most final year undergraduates across the UK. It provides students with an opportunity to make their opinions on their higher education student experience count at a national level and helps prospective learners make informed choices of where and what to study.

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still from as 'Seen Through the Telescope' directed in 1900 by George Albert Smith.

I like this film because it is an eary example of the filmmakers craft and it's a tale of the repressed and the forbidden. It is a simple tale of a dodgy old man uses his telescope to have a good look at a couple across the street. It's also interesting as an early example of action cut across successive shots, with the viewer sharing what he sees: the young man's hands caressing the woman's foot and ankle, shown within a circular mask to mimic the telescopic view. In case you're worried, the voyeur doesn't go unrewarded - at the end of the film the younger man punches him. Perhaps that's why it was called L'astronome indiscret in France.

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