Moving Image & Convergence

8/7/2019 Moving Image & Convergence

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Film ProductionFilm production is everything involving the making of the film, for

instance the idea, to the distribution to cinemas then to DVD. The

production covers all of the different aspects involving the film

production, and the main three I am going to research are firstly the

Cinematography, then the Sound and editing and also special effects

and graphics covering the changes through the years and how the

development is still happening with every passing day.


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First Aspects of

CinematographyThe first glimpse of cinematography was traced back to the worlds

first motion picture called Roundhay Garden Scene. Directed byLouis le Prince who was an inventor and showman made thison October 14th 1888 in the garden at Oakwood Grange inRoundhav, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, shown on theright. This unexpected, groundbreaking breakthrough eventhappened seven years before the Lumire Brothers' Sortie del'usine Lumire Lyon made the first paid exhibition onDecember 28, 1895 at Le Grand Caf, in Paris, France. Thiswas the date known as the birth of the cinema since it was thefirst time the cycle of production-distribution-exhibitionhappened. The European city soon became the motion picturecapital of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography#History

The well known film Jaws back in 1975 showshow cinematography was back 35 years ago.


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Cinematography

35 years AgoIn 1975 one of the most well known most successful film was made, Jaws. Jaws shows so many great

shots showing great examples of cinematography, these made by The cinematographer Bill

Butler.

Billy Butler was the person who focused of the cinematography of the film, this enabled him to have

control over the camera shots used for the film.... Finding a article from Bill Butler it tells of theshots he wanted to use and how new ideas arisen making new camera shots

http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/shooting_jaws_at_30_2903/

Below is a link to the trailer of Jaws, this video shows

some of the camera shots that was first made like the

underwater point of view, these shots 35 years were thebest ever, and to much affect still are brilliant but as the

years go on more and more shots are becoming known

and because of the growth of technology more genius

shots are overshadowing the unique shots made in this

trailer....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_JTkUVL6I


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Convergence of

CinematographyConvergence in the film terms always isaround when a film is being produced and in

this instance, the Camera shot from a film

could be converged with the Industry who

produces posters, Thus creating aconversion between the two.....

Impact on the Audience

As classing myself as the audience i believe that thecinematography for me is positive as it is a way to show

how the industry regarding Cinematography is being

developed.....


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First Aspects of SoundAs shown to the right it is a picture of the first

aspect of developing and experimenting

with the use of sound with motion Pictures.

Image from the Dickson Experimental Sound Film(1894 or 1895), produced by W.K.L. Dicksonas atest of the early version of the Edison

Kinetophone, combining the Kinetoscope andphonograph.

Eadweard Muybridge scheme for soundcinema that would combine his image-

casting zoopraxiscope with Edison'srecorded-sound technology.No agreement

was reached, but within a year Edisoncommissioned the development of theKinetoscope, essentially a "peep-show"system, as a visual complement to hiscylinder phonograph. The two devices werebrought together as the Kinetophone in1895, but individual, cabinet viewing ofmotion pictures was soon to be outmoded by

successes in film projection.

This meaning that Eadweard

Muybridge created a scheme in so

that sound for the cinema would bechosen, then when finished, the idea

was to cast the roles of the people

through using the sound to see if they

fitted with it... This being different to

nowadays because the sound is

written after casting.....


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Sound

40 years ago

A great example of sound is from the 1960 great horror film,

Physco. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock made this

horror with every intention of creating a film like so was not

known of at the time, until it was released. It was one of the

first films to produce such a horror which ending up

becoming one of the most successful film of all time. I

thought I would talk about it in the concept of soundbecause when a killing is about to occur the music takes

over everything and draws you into the film and builds

tension and suspense....Its sharp, edgy and in my opinion

this makes the scene complete, without it the scene would

be nothing, the sound makes its sucess.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XfUxXDldY


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Convergence of Sound

The film industry creates many convergences, and for sound it isno different. The film industry when creating a successful

film began to create many convergences with lots of different

other industries. With sound convergences are made with

mobile phone industries, creating ringtones of a favourite

catchphrase, a famous noise, For example the Physco killing

noise....

Impact on Audience

The impact of sound convergence, like ringtones is a very

successful convergence because ringtones are very easy

to produce and then selling one for as little as 2.00 to

4.00 therefore the revenue would be immensly great and

ever increasing.... The price of these ringtones though in

my point of view is very bad as the costs are to high....

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