It was the discovery of the illusion of motion in the 1820’s that fuelled the development of motion cameras which in-turn lead to silent films in the 1890’s. Back then, technology did not allow sound to be synchronised with film, so screenings of silent films were accompanied by live music. Up to the 1920’s, silent movies were mainly adaptions of novels popular at the time.
I believe visual effects are not necessary in telling every story in film but I think in some films, adding visual effects adds to the joy and wonder experienced by the viewer. Advancements of computer technologies have allowed special effects to be used more and more seamlessly and, a lot of the time, unnoticeably in film.
Film is an emotive, creative media and can influence us in many ways. It can affect the viewer depending on the genre - action, drama, horror, adventure - the audience can be made to feel scared, happy, sad or anxious. Early filmmakers couldn’t expand beyond the boundaries of possibility simply because the available technology didn’t allow it. With the improvement of computer technology nowadays, visual effects allows us to tell any story imaginable.
Why Use Any Visual Effects At All?
In the book Special Effects:
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I think this is an interesting statement because thats what I think silent films were at the time. For the first time ever, silent films allowed the everyday person sit in a theatre and have a story unfold before their eyes rather than reading it from a book or watching it being performed on a stage, which would have been the more affordable norm in them days. In some movies, the addition of visual effects transported the audience into an unbelievable, yet believable world. Silent film requires more of the viewers imagination to fill in whats not there i.e. the noise of a passing car, a dog barking, the colours of everything in the