Digitizing Traditional Filmmaking Process and Teaching This Process to Middle Eastern Students

Abstract

For many years Cinema is entertaining its audience around the world, this is the source of entertainment that had evolved immensely and had produced fascinating movies. Besides being the most glamorous money making industry, it is also the most expensive industry. It is very costly to use traditional equipment and traditional methods; it is the process that takes some years to get completed. Many talented individuals want to join this industry, but because of its high cost and overflowing budget, they hesitate to step forward. Therefore in this research, innovative ways of filmmaking have been focused by digitizing them at competitive cost. Efforts have been made by the authors to make filmmaking affordable by the learners at reduced cost. The potential and interest in filmmaking in the Middle East have been highlighted in the paper. It also explains why students are unable to learn filmmaking on traditional equipment, which is due to slow growing technology in this region regardless their potential and interest. To overcome this issue, the authors discuss different methods of digital film production that help not only Middle Eastern students but also students around the world. In the end, advantages, challenges of the digital film production and related work in this field have been described by the authors. Integration of digitizing film industry and Artificial Intelligence can yield an exponential growth in film industry not only in middle east but also worldwide.