Sri Lankan Film industry

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Cameras

Most feature films produced in Sri Lanka are shot on 35mm Cinemascope. Almost all commercials are produced on 35mm standard formats if not on Video. Unfortunately Cameras and Lenses are not available off the shelf - like in America or Europe. Individual equipment suppliers in Sri Lanka have a basic Camera set-up with Camera body, 5 or 6 standard Prime Lenses, a couple of Zooms, standard filters in each Camera Package. There is a wide selection of Artifex ꠲s and Artifex 435s and Artifex 535s available from India(some 435 owners have now upgraded to Ultra Primes in India). 

Lights 

There are a couple of rental houses in Colombo - Sri Lanka that work predominantly for foreign crews filming in Sri Lanka. There is a selection of HMIs - PARS, FLICKER FREE AND NORMAL - 16,12 and 8 KWs from India. 6KWs and below plenty - thought Pars & Flicker frees are limited. TUNGSTEN LIGHTS - 10KWs, 5KWs and below - plenty KINOFLOS.

GRIP Equipment 

High end Grip packages are usually hired from India. Grip packages come with crew. In terms of equipment from India, there are Akela Cranes, Panther Dollies, Elemak Cranes, and Phoenix Crane with hot heads and Jimmy Jibs with hot heads. There are also Giraffe Cranes and a Super Panther is available.
Sri Lanka is also equipped with most of the above equipment. Hiring locally would reduce the overall cost on project.

Threats in Technological Environment of Sri Lankan Film industry

Most of Sri Lankan Films were not exposed internationally.
  • UCLA in Los Angeles in 1994 and screened "On the Run ", the audience there was surprised at its style. But Sri Lankan artists haven't money for subtitling.
  • The other thing was they haven't any kind of international connections. That's the reason why their films didn't get proper exposure internationally.

Coming up bad copies to the market

Unfortunately, the SIFF screenings were in BETA format and were very bad copies. They have not a single reprint of a film.

Theatres around the country and world also are installing digital projectors, which use high-definition digitally- encoded discs instead of celluloid. The downside of this Digital prints are a prints are a pirates 'dream because illegal copies can be made easily if they hack the studio's encryption codes.

digital cinema at home at near-identical resolution

The availability of true high - definition formats like VHS D - Theatre (in the Us) and Blue-Ray Disc, the successor to DVD, (in Japan) means that viewers can experience digital cinema at home at near - identical resolution. It is only a matter of time before these formats go on sale around the world.

There are movies on demand over cable TV, compressed digital films, and DVDs in the mail.

It's been a long time that movies were just available in theatres, but now there are movies on demand over cable TV , compressed digital films, and DVDs in the mail. Technology has changed how one watcher movies and can even change what we watch. The effects of computer technology on film making and sales.


















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