Vídeo digital: uma alternativa à produção cinematográfica em Manaus - AM

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the benefits and limitations of using digital technology in the development / production and distribution of cinema in Manaus. First stood the image production in contemporary society, a process examined by authors such as Nöth and Santaella (2008), Virilio (2002), Couchot (1993) and Dubois (2004), showing the main changes in the image production, suggesting a division from the technique used in this task by discussing how it interferes with the formation of image, starting with the photographic image to the image synthesis, computergenerated. Based on Machado (1997, 2008), Baudrillard (1991) and Santaella (2003) it was discussed the main features of the synthesized image and how it changed the landscape of visual art, especially cinema. Through Mattos (2006), Manovich (2001) Lipovetsky and Serroy (2009) it was analyzed the key technical developments in film, including sound and color, and then we get to image synthesis, their benefits and limitations. We then discussed the democratic aspect made possible by digital technology as a possible emergence of new producers to provide multiple image capture devices, creating new viewports productions, among others, providing the development of a film culture. As for the methodological approach, the research conducted survey descriptive / critical conditions of film production in Manaus, the use of questionnaire and interviews with the independent filmmakers.