Stanford Chan, graduate at Digital media and currently working in a film making studio in Hong Kong. I interviewed him about his perspective of future technology development in film industry. His unique knowledge and views of future technology is very inspiring and we have interesting conversation. Here is the transcript of out interview.
Stan [2015, pers. comm., 14 October]explained that the development of making film is moving toward to a cheaper,nicer and faster process. From small models and props to green screen, technology makes film making process easier. Most of the undoable scenes now can finish by program. He said that technology used in film making will be going on this direction.
He said that technology in film making industry are developing process without a real actor and actress in the set. He includes a example of a movie, Fast and Furious, it used technology to ‘change the film making future’. The actual actor is recreated with the actor’s brothers. It uses old clip of the movie to generate the facial expression. In the other example, he told me that a Japanese animation. Captain Harlock, is using a technology to design and create a world. The film is done by a role play avatar inside this world. Stan has compared this two new technology thats completely change the traditional film and animation process. Both technology is already access and can be develop forward.Technology will be play a large role for his work in the future. Every scene will need technology to complete and will need less space, props and other equipments.
As the technology will do most of the work in film making industry. It will be easier for who have less skills and resource to participant in this area. It only requires people who can create a good story, they do not need actor or studio to complete their work. People can express their ideas and present in a film format. I think that this technology can be used in different way in design world. It can create a demonstration for architecture, a fashion runway walk or a presentation for a design. I think his perspective is very possible in the future.
He [2015, pers. comm., 14 October] also thinks that the experience of watching a film will be complete different in the future. Audiences can be participant in the film and have an interaction with the character. Audiences will not be a third person who are only watching the movie. Interaction will be very important in the future. Experience will be major lead in technology. It will develop into the form that people can use and be part of it.
Technology is developing to help things become quicker and easier. Stan bring up an idea with technology may take over people jobs. Jobs can be done by a more simple, faster and need less requirements for it. However, he also point out that everyone can bring their creativity to the world easily, it will changes the perspective of the world.
courageous expectations 
Your point regarding a co-creative film audience is very interesting and something I had not considered before [it reminds me of the ‘choose your own adventure‘ books I read as a child]. The prospects of this technology are very exciting as it will completely change the film making industry, and by extension many modes of popular culture. We will literally be able to directly interact with celebrities, becoming our own character in the film. It will make the entire film process so much more immersive, we will no longer be passive audiences but a part of the creative team [similar to the shift from web 1.0 to 2.0]. Exciting times!
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