The Moonbot duo had uber-technical aspirations for their film "What the technology allows storytellers to do is really move sound throughout the space and exactly pinpoint anywhere they want to place it." It's the next generation of surround sound." He motioned to the speakers overhead-many more than in a standard 5.1 surround sound theater. "On the Dolby Atmos side," McGilpin continued, "that's an object-based sound technology. The Atmos speaker system Credit: Dolby Laboratories
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We wanted to do subtle things like that to really show the technology off and surprise the audience." It's really an amazing process that we've been able to introduce into the cinemas." For example, he said, "the color of the crystal -that's a red that you can't reproduce with a regular digital cinema projector. "There's a special projector that allows filmmakers to use a much wider color gamut, they have the brightest brights and the darkest darks. "Dolby Vision is a high dynamic range technology," McGilpin explained. McGilpin kicked off the panel by giving a brief rundown of what exactly Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision are.
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Glenn Kiser, Director of the Dolby Institute, moderated. Heap, along with the filmmakers, Brandon Oldenberg and Limbert Fabian their sound designer Nick Ryan and their producer Angus McGilpin (who is also Senior Director of Content Development at Dolby Laboratories) discussed the film after its premiere. Singer Imogen Heap joined the team as a composer. Dolby calls the film "a cinematic poem about the world-changing power of invention." It stars a teenage heroine stranded on an unknown planet, relying on her ingenuity (and a really cool tuning-fork staff) to save her.