Digital Cinema Society

With the excitement generated around the Oscar nominations in the categories of Acting, Directing, and Best Picture, we wanted to highlight instead some of the technical arts and crafts we tend to follow for the Digital Cinema Society including Cinematography, Editing, Sound, and VFX.  Following are the nominees in ... [ Read: 2022 Oscars Nominations for Cinematography, Editing, VFX, and Sound ]

DCS sister organization, the Cinema Audio Society has announced their nominees for the 58th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2021 in seven categories, as well as ten Outstanding Product nominees, (including 2 products by DCS supporter Lectrosonics.)  The 58th Annual Cinema Audio Society ... [ Read: CAS Announces Awards Nominations for Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing ]

CES 2022 Highlights Solutions, Way Forward DCS Member Content Contribution from Andy Marken of Marken Communications Excerpted From January 2022 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter We had a major argument with ourselves this month on whether we would or wouldn’t go to CES. We had serious doubts that Gary Shapiro ... [ Read: CES 2022 Highlights Solutions, Way Forward - Member Content Contribution from Andy Marken ]

ARRI announces that they are expanding Orbiter's accessory range with the introduction of an Orbiter Docking Ring, Orbiter Bag-o-Light, Orbiter Glass Cover, and Orbiter Dome Mini. The adapter connects without any additional tools onto the Quick Lighting Mount (QLM) of every Orbiter and the Docking Ring is recognized ... [ Read: ARRI Announces New Docking Ring and Additional Accessories for Orbiter ]

Daniel McCoy, CAS works on a lot of major Reality and Documentary programs as a Production Sound Mixer and is the owner of ToneMesa, which he refers to as a “boutique production support service”.  He originally started to invest in camera gear to service his own filmmaking projects.  However, after Daniel worked ... [ Read: Daniel McCoy, CAS Invests In Sony Cameras ]

The American Society of Cinematographers has named its annual Outstanding Achievement Award nominees in the categories of feature film, documentary and television cinematography. Winners will be announced during the 36th ASC Awards on March 20, 2022 in a hybrid event, both in person and live streamed, at the historic ... [ Read: ASC Announces Nominees for the 36th Annual Awards To Be Held March 20, 2022 ]

In an industry-wide effort to establish a common vocabulary across professionals working in Virtual Production, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), and a host of industry experts, with support from Epic Games and Netflix have created an online resource known as The Virtual ... [ Read: Industry Groups Join Forces to Create Virtual Production Glossary at VPGlossary.com ]

The Sundance Institute, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Sundance Film Festival, has announced that all in-person activities that were to be held starting January 20th in Park City Utah have been cancelled.  Due to the rise of the Omicron variant with its unexpectedly high transmissibility rates, the ... [ Read: The In-Person Component Of The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Has Been Cancelled ]

OWC has announced their Atlas Pro Series Media Cards and Readers for Content Creators.  These professional grade, high-capacity SD UHS-II V90 and CFexpress Type B media storage cards are designed for super-fast data capture along with ultra-compact universally compatible card readers. OWC flash storage solutions ... [ Read: OWC Announces Pro Series Media Cards and Readers for Content Creators ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the June 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) You may send me to wash my mouth out with soap after you read this, but old habits die hard and the vernacular we use on film sets is slow to change.  In fact, the word ... [ Read: You Can't Say That Anymore - The Evolution of Language on Film Sets ]