Feminist film theory Feminist scholars point out that there is misogyny in the mainstream media that treat women as inferior and objects. They expressed that there is a need to explore representations and images of women. Feminist film theory makes gender its exploratory focus and it has emerged to find a place for women in films; they were frustrated with how feminist studies ignore critiques and works of media, particularly films. Conventionally, the representations of media are counter to the
D. W. Griffith is referred to as the Father of Modern Film because of the innovations created for and introduced in what is called his landmark film, The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915). Most film theorists, directors, producers, and even film students agree that it is with the advent of The Birth of a Nation that Griffith breaks new ground by developing a film language that focuses the film’s impactful message. Griffith’s inventive establishing shots, continuity and parallel editing, close-up
In the Basic Concepts article from Siegfried Kracauer, he discusses two different ways of thinking about and making films. He calls these realistic and formative tendencies. These tendencies were modelled after three filmmaking innovators of the 19th century, the Lumiere Brothers and George Melies. While both sides of these filmmaking techniques are vastly different in theory, they share some similarities as well. To further unpack this, it is necessary to learn the history of the filmmakers involved
Beginning in the late 1950s, early 1960s, Cinema Verité was a French film movement that began with the interest in making it easier to film documentaries by using smaller cameras ("Movie Movements That Defined Cinema: Direct Cinema"). This revolutionary technique is still being used today, as it was in the films analyzed in this essay. This paper will compare Cropsey, a Cinema Verité film, to The Blair Witch Project, a Found-Footage film. Viewing the similarities in camera work, scripts (or rather
see a movie, I always predict what's going to happen next. And it is very interesting,and it has enough attraction to appeal me. My favourite
that there is no longer a distinct difference between the two, they are simply cinema. Narrative cinema is now being pushed into the background, while the cinematic foreground now consists of the attraction; the animation, the explosion, the 3-D movie. Films such as Transformers are not praised for their narrative, but for their special effects. The plots of these films are often shallow and poorly written, however audiences do not enjoy such films for their plots, the audience enjoys the spectacle
The cinematic language that we hear in modern day movies would not be as it is today if we hadn 't had synchronous sound recordings from the beginning of film. Cinematic Language is the systematic method by which movies communicate with the viewer. Some examples of cinematic language are, Mise-en-scène, camera angles, the use of long takes, & depth of field. Barthes theory of Expressionism, the use of lighting techniques, montage and elaborate props push to make The Wizard of Oz appear to be a spectacle
Grand: Hello and welcome to “Big Ideas on Film”, the only talk show in Australia that gets to the core of the movies making the biggest splash in box office. I’m your host, Kathy Grand and today’s cinematic masterpiece is “The Hunger Games”, and it’s focus on power. I have with me the director of this film, Gary Ross, and the author of this amazing trilogy, Suzanne Collins. Welcome guys, thanks for coming. Collins: Thanks for having us. Ross: Pleasure to be here. Grand: I wanted to start
His film would be “recorded on Eastmen Kodak paper base photographic film from 1885 through Louis’s single-lens combi camera-projector,” (Samuel) which was patented in 1888. With the help of a wood-maker who made parts for cameras, an old assistant, and his father-in-law, he finished two cameras in October 1888 that played a series of pictures at a rate of 12-16 per second (Varma)
The film making made another feet print in the sands of communication. Lumiere brothers invented ‘cinematography’ which means ‘movement’ or ‘writing’. Later on films became a very high mechanical mass medium comprising many other mechanical devices like cameras, microphones, dubbing machine, editing machine, etc. and because of its mass appeal and influence on society, it earned universal acclaim and became a versatile means of communication. Along with entertainment, films are also used to teach
the computer graphics-generated imagery (CGI) defined a new category, theme and target group in the world of the studio films. As Nicolas Roeg (2013) says “Digital changed the whole attitude towards editing. In effect, it changed the whole art of movie story telling.” Kristen Whissel (2006) argues that “Through flying and falling bodies, the new vertically makes visible the position occupied by computer-generated
film to educate us on life itself. The producers use the characters to show a specific issue that should be addressed or to teach an important life lesson. However, they don’t simply tell you because the producers want you to think and reflect on the movie. Authors of books use the same method to give meaning to their stories. But what if movies and books did not have meaning and no one saw society or life in different perspectives? What if society ran in one direction and no one rose up to challenge
The definition of animation Animation refers to the creation of a sequence of images drawn, painted, or produced by other artistic methods that change over time to portray the illusion of motion. Before the invention of film, humans depicted motion in static art as far back as the Paleolithic period. In the 1st century, several devices successfully depicted motion in animated images. Eastern European Animation Fighting the Cold War (1954) The first feature-length British animation to be released
films boasts a new look with just the right amount of action and romance. Superman in comparison with Man of Steel is a great example where one can easily see the change and progression of technology over the past 30 years. The very first Superman movie was released in 1978 where the filmic technology was limited and not as advanced as today thus creating a film that is unrealistic
WITH A MOVING CAMERA: By: Dziga Vertov , Made in 1929 Man with a Movie camera is a film in which Dziag Vertov has shown us the life of people in a city. This film is about a city undergoing modernization, showing us actual images and not using any set or reconstruction during filming. Vertov has shown us the different moods of the city from morning till night, with people working at various locations, going
The “gaze” sometimes called the “look” is a term which was originally used in film theory in the 1970s but which is now more broadly used by media theorists to refer to the ways in which viewers look at images of people in any visual medium. These include advertisements, television programs and cinema. The concept of the gaze is fundamentally about the relationship of pleasure and images. The gaze can be viewed in in two different ways; the male gaze and the female gaze. The male gaze was originally
POST-PRODUCTION The post-production phase of movie making consists of creating and adding special visual effects and titles, adding music and sound effects, and, finally, processing, editing, and printing the finished product in the motion picture laboratory. Special visual effects using models have become well known through such movies as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars." Contrary to popular opinion and some press reports, special-purpose, hard-wired machines, not computers, were used to
com/history.html The History and Development of Movie Posters Report We began our presentation on the history of movie posters by tracing their evolution from the beginning of film, focusing on imagery and typography up until present day 2000s. Movie making began in the 1890s when the first motion picture cameras were invented. Requiring a new form of advertisement, the movie poster was thus born in Europe and America - also known as movie promoters. While movie posters were created for commercial purposes
The movie industry is one of the biggest media businesses but yet the one that makes least amount of money due to the fact that movies are expensive to make while hard to predict success. If the movie is not a hit then the inventors will lose the money they put toward the production. The movie industry has come a long way from when it started to now in today’s society. Not only do movies make a huge impact in today’s world but they can also affect people’s lives. There were six people who came to
two images would then be placed together and played through a normal project to create a color film. Which reproduced colors including blue. [7] This method did not require the fancy projector that was needed to create color film. It simply utilized the laws physics and how light behaves. Using nothing but a projector, the film would create the first true color film.