High Resolution Wedding Scene
ASC & DCI Create Testing Material

LOS ANGELES – The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium (DCI) have established standardized testing material for evaluating the performance of digital projectors and other d-cinema systems.

Cinematographers Ron Garcia, Dante Spinotti, Daryn Okada and ASC Technology Committee chairman Curtis Clark designed the test scene, described as a wedding taking place in a 1950s Italian village containing various challenging situations and powerful emotional content. Filmed in the “European Village” on the Universal Studios backlot, the shoot involved multiple cameras in super-35 and anamorphic formats, with selected 65mm shots.

ASC and DCI plan to select appropriate short scenes from nearly two hours of footage, which will later be scanned and converted to digital files. These files will be used to master the standard materials designed to test the performance of digital projectors.

The project follows ASC’s initiative, established in May to help form standards and practices within the digital filmmaking world (In Focus, August 2003).