This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The range of tasks expected from a Digital Compositor for Film or Television are covered.
Total contact hours: 57
Private study hours: 93
Total study hours: 150
Main assessment methods
Portfolio1 (30%)
Portfolio2 (70%)
The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Ron Brinkmann, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, ISBN 0-12-133960-2
Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 2nd Edition, Steve Wright, Focal Press, 2006, ISBN 0-240-80760-X
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. Add and subtract seamlessly photographic elements from digital video clips using paint tools alone;
2. Composite a moving digital video element from one or more clips seamlessly into another;
3. Change seamlessly lightings, camera moves and framings, colour balances and film textures on existing digital video clips;
4. Build and match camera movements of 3D environments from and to the 2D evidence in digital video clips;
5. Animate and light a 3D computer graphics object for seamless compositing into a live action digital video clip.
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