PDA Webcast: High Frame Rate Cinema – A New Tool for Storytellers

Thursday, 25 April 2013

17:00 UTC /10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern

With the recent release of films produced and exhibited at frame rates higher than the traditional 24 frames per second (fps), many questions have arisen: What exactly is high frame rate in cinema? From where did the concept come? Why is it important today? What are the human psychophysiological considerations?

Guest speakers David Stump, ASC and Andrew Watson, NASA, explore this newly emerged storytelling tool. Please join us to learn more.

Guest Speakers: 

Dave Stump, ASC

 Dave Stump, ASC, began his career in film in the late 70s, first as a TV producer for several cable shows and then at ABC where he helped put together a late night TV show called “Completely Off the Wall.” He worked on a number of pictures with Clive Donner then worked for Francis Coppola in his camera department at Zoetrope Studios, working on all Zoetrope pictures such as One from the Heart until the studio moved to San Francisco. He worked on “The Day After” TV miniseries that won a VFX Emmy Award.
 
In 1991 Stump started a rental company, Motion Control Rental Services, which grew into the model for Visual Effects rentals in Hollywood. He has worked as DP, VXF DP and VXF supervisor on numerous large motion pictures and television productions and earned another Emmy nomination and an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. He is a member of the ASC and chairs the Camera subcommittee of the ASC Technology Committee, helping to shape the future of digital cinematography.

Andrew Watson, NASA

Andrew B. Watson is the Senior Scientist for Vision Research at NASA Ames Research Center in California. He is the author of over 100 papers and six patents on topics in vision science and imaging technology. In 2001, he founded the Journal of Vision (http://journalofvision.org) where he serves as Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Watson is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and of the Society for Information Display. He is Vice Chair for Vision Science and Human Factors of the International Committee on Display Measurement. In 2007 he received the Otto Schade Award from the Society for Information Display, and in 2008 the Special Recognition Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. In 2011, he received the Presidential Rank Award from the President of the United States.

 

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