Ever since the beginning of photography, people learned that pictures taken in quick series, of a moving object, could be flipped through, in succession, to create the illusion of a moving picture. For many years Animation has been used. Animation was done in black and white such as cartoons and movies in the early 1900's. The backgrounds and the cartoon drawings were made simple. Animation technology has come a long way since the early days of hand-drawn cartoons. The tools have changed dram...
Since its start in 1896, when Lumiere brothers came to India to unveil six short films in Bombay, Indian Cinema has made a long journey from simple silent movies to technically advanced movies of the present day which have everything from sound to color to all the razzmatazz. India's first feature film King Harishchandra (a silent movie) was released in 1913 while the first Indian 'talkie' was Alam Ara in 1931. Today, India is the largest producer of films in the world, when it comes to the n...
Casablanca is a movie that was set during the Second World War in Casablanca, Morocco. In the movie the main characters are Humphrey Bogart starring Rick Blaine who is the hero, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa, Paul Henreid starring as Victor Laszlo among other actors and characters. The movie is set during the 1940 when Germany attacked Moroccan capital city Casablanca to get rid of escaping Jews and people who were escaping the persecution and Germany control over the French colonies (Weschler, 2000...
The object that I have chosen is a film called Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The movie, directed by Danny Boyle, received 8 Oscar awards for excellence in the fields like Direction, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score and Original Song. The movie is an adaption of a novel 'Q & A' written by the proclaimed Indian author and diplomat, Vikas Swarup. The movie is set in an Indian backdrop and the story revolves around an uneducated Muslim boy named Jamaal, and about his journ...
Forrest Gump is a famous 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the novel written by Winston Groom; directed by Robert Zemeckis. The story depicts the life of a simple Alabama man Forest Gump who travels around the world, meets historical figures and influences and participates in important historical events of the second half of the 20th century. The film "Forrest Gump" is about a simple man's journey through complicated times. Exciting, deep and kind film narrates from the behalf of the p...
The termination of yet a other film was announced by none other than Kodak on June 22, 2009. Kodak had to completely end the manufacture of the famous Kodachrome which was preferred by many professional photographers in its prime. Pentax and Nikon are also ending their production of almost the entire film line. This is the dawn of a new era in photography. This can only make you wonder if we will enter a new era in cinematography where the usage of film products are no longer needed. The digi...
In this assignment I will be describing the structure and the ownership of the UK film industry and exploring the production, distribution and the exhibition of Slumdog Millionaire. I will be also looking at the relationship between films and their production contexts and the relationship between audiences and films. Danny Boyle, a British director, directed the film, Slumdog Millionaire. It was about Jamal, who was Dev Patel, grew up in the slums, who then becomes a contestant in 'Who Become...
In this chapter, content analysis will be used to analyze the film 'Titanic' in qualitative perspectives from the five mise-en-scene elements (Acting style, setting, space, costume and lighting) and also the focus group to find out ideological elements that portrayed in this film. Besides that, the reporting of the discussion in the focus group which is based on the four themes also will be included. Setting can be used to amplify character's emotions or the dominant mood of a film; it also c...
The visual effects performed in various film noirs was not to give the viewer the perception of an ordinary setting, but to provide a visual manifestation of terror and abnormality into human emotion through twisted plots and camera techniques. The plot is twisted and complex, taking the viewer into dark, terrorizing, and incomprehensible place. The camera techniques used in the visuals seen in Murder My Sweet instills these feelings, which are common in horror films. Art cannot be rushed and...
The movie starts as the flashbacks of Ali la Pointe (played by Brahim Hagiag), a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). The scene is 1957, and the first flashback is about how Ali, a petty thief convicted and imprisoned, joins the freedom fighters after seeing the oppression meted out by the French colonialists. This builds the story as it concentrates on the struggle and the mercilessness shown by both sides of the war of the Battle of Algiers, a segment of the Algerian War....