Fiona Deans, Director, Digital Cinema, of Arts Alliance Media, explains just what it is that film projectionists wanting to extend their skills into the digital arena will need to learn, and she describes the contents of the courses that AAM has developed so successfully to meet the needs of the Film Council's Digital Screen Network, with over 100 projectionists trained so far Digital cinema is a new technology requiring projectionists to learn new skills and procedures. As well as the new equipment they must operate, there are new ways of working, for example, digital films are encrypted so require security keys to unlock them - a cinema may have a copy of a film but not be able to play it.
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