Paul Collard, Ascent Media Group

Paul Collard
Vice President Film & Digital Services
Ascent Media Group

Paul Collard is responsible for business development in Film and Digital Services for Ascent Media Group Ltd. He was formerly Managing Director of Soho Images and Todd-ao UK (now Soho Film Lab), and is now based at Ascent 142, Ascent’s flagship Soho post production facility in the UK.

Paul has an extensive background in both film and digital post production having begun his career in the Kodak Photographic School. He became Technical Manager at Metrocolor London, where he worked for 19 years responsible for technical and engineering services in film and video operations. Paul developed the ‘bleach by pass’ technique of desaturating film prints, primarily for the film ‘1984’ and later for Terence Davies’ films ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ and ‘Long Day Closes’. He is committed to training in the Industry and is a Council Member & Past President of BKSTS. In 2009 he received the Arri John Alcott Memorial Award from the British Society of Cinematographers for his contributions to their recent camera evaluation tests.

Paul has presented conference papers on Film Formats, Digital Intermediate, Digital Workflows, Digital Cinema, Digital Restoration and Archive Services for Film Archives. He has presented archive papers at Gamma Group, First, JTS (2007) and Video Active (2007) conferences & has attended JTS, AMIA (including nitrate workshop) & FIAT conferences. Paul is a board member of the European Digital Cinema Forum, a member of the SMPTE Digital Cinema working group on Additional and Archive Frame Rates, has liaised with the FIAF Technical Commission to ensure their views are represented, and is a member of DC21 SMPTE Digital Cinema Standards Committee. In his current role, Paul is also involved in the application of Ascent Media’s digitisation and asset management services to film & video archives in the UK & Europe.

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