They will have an even greater impact on film structure, aesthetics, and meaning. The accomplishments of today are just the beginning. For it is equally true, and less obvious, that due to digital technology, motion pictures are poised to make their greatest aesthetic and structural leap since D.W. Griffith invented modern film narrative structure with the creation parallel editing. A new film form is being born and Digital Cinema is it's name. Digital Cinema will not be everyday filmmaking by other means.
New technology creates new contexts.
In the first stages of technology implementation, the focus is on doing what we already do, but doing it faster, cheaper, or better somehow. In subsequent implementation stages the focus shifts to doing new things, things that have never been done before. In time new technology changes not only what we do, but why we do it. If this was true for banks and ATMs or transportation and cars, it will surely be true of film. Just over the horizon and closing fast are motion paintings, cubist cinema, virtual actors, virtual sets, new transitions, image overlay, and new structures.