Staff Profile

Dr Chris Woollard
AC4 (Principal Lecturer)
Creative Digital Technologies Department

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8331 8457
Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 8665
Room: QM408
Email:

Qualifications
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Essex
BSc Computer Science, first class honours, Hatfield Polytechnic
PGCE University of Greenwich

External recognition
British Kinematograph and Television Society (BKSTS)

Council Member of the BKSTS
Director of the BKSTS
Education Committee member BKSTS

The BSC (British Society of Cinematographers)

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Awards
2005 Dennis Wratten award of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society.
2013 Fellowship of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society, award for contributions in Cinematography.

Biography
Have worked on various Feature Film Productions primarily as a Director of Photography
from 1992 onwards. Notable features include LoTR, The Hobbit and Jurassic Park.

Various projects related to Cinematography and high definition television. Resulting papers published in the
Journal of the SMPTE and the Journal of the BKSTS over many years.

Currently working with the Government of Iraq, Ministry of Higher Education and Directorate of Cinema on the development of a new film school at the University of Suliamania. This work is funded by the Government of IRAQ (Kurdish region).

Working on a major project concerning the education of graduate level film makers in Northern Iraq. First film production for this completed and accepted by the British Society of Cinematograhers for a major industry screening to be held shortly.

Work with the motion control company Mo-Sys on a new research project for the special effects industry
Various projects concerning computer networks
New Astonomical Telescope


Currently working with AMPAS on the Image Interchange Framework project with AMPAS, the ASC and the BSC. An active member of the IIF development team.

BKSTS Council member and Director working in the field of film school approval - the BKSTS are the body HESA recognises for approval of courses in this field.

Research/Scholarly interests
Various research projects principally involving the Film Industry.

Originally working in the Supercomputer field, Cambridge, Boston MA culminating as a senior engineer at Thinking Machines Corporation, late 1980's assigned to work as the principal engineer on Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.


School roles
Film Industry liaison Officer

Programme Leader 2012/13
MA Cinematography and Post Production
MSc Cinematography and Post Production

Course Coordinator 2012/13
Cinematography
Film Making
Masters Project MA
Masters Project MSc

Selected publications
C.C. Woollard, Paper in preparation: The Development of the Cinema Industry in Iraq.

C.C. Woollard, “Production ATM Networks”, 138th Annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference Proceedings, Los Angeles, October 1996.

C.C. Woollard, “Distributed Digital Post-Production”, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, October 1997 Vol. 106 No.10.

C.C. Woollard, “70mm Cinema Sound Restoration”, Journal of the British Kinematograph and Television Society, April 1996, Vol. 78 No. 5.

C.C. Woollard, “70mm Sound Restoration, Architectural Issues”, Journal of the British Kinematograph and Television Society, July 1996, Vol. 78 No. 8.

C.C. Woollard, “Seeing the Light, developments for Cinematography Lighting”, Journal of the British Kinematograph and Television Society, April 1997.

C.C. Woollard, “A System for Consistent Film and DTV/DVD Program Production”, 2nd Annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Film Conference Proceedings, Los Angeles, June 1998.

C.C. Woollard, “Motion Picture Image Rendering”, 140th Annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference Proceedings, October 1998.

C.C. Woollard, “A Verification System for Cinematographer Image Generation Tools”, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, August 1999 Vol. 108, No. 8.
C.C. Woollard, “Distributed Production using Loosely and Tightly Coupled Systems”, 141st Annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference Proceedings, New York, November 1999.

C.C. Woollard, “Metadata and General Purpose Composite Objects”, 35th SMPTE Advanced Motion Imaging Conference Proceedings, February 2001.

C.C. Woollard, “An Object Server Supporting Metadata for Video Intensive Internet-Based Access”, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, November 2001 Vol. 110 No. 11.

C.C. Woollard, “Networked Special Effects Processing for Film and High Definition Video”, 144th Annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference Proceedings, October 2002.

C.C. Woollard, J. Herrero, “The use of Metadata within Film and Television Production”, Image Technology Journal of the BKSTS 2004.

C.C. Woollard “The Aldeburgh Cinema. A Three in one story.” Cinema Technology, September 2005, ISSN 0995-2251.

Recent Conference Presentations:
C.C. Woollard, “Enhancing Motion Picture Lens Performance by Digital Calibration and Correction”, SMPTE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 2010.

C.C. Woollard, “A Grading System for the Integration of Differing Camera Technolgies”, SMPTE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 2011.

C.C. Woollard, "The Kurdish Cinema Industry", Cinema Technology Journal of the BKSTS, June 2013, ISSN 0995-2251.

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row
London SE10 9LS
UK