Film is a term that Movie Poster The Savage encompasses individual Movie Poster The Savage motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by Movie Poster The Savage creating images using Movie Poster The Savage animation techniques or special effects.
Films are Movie Poster The Savage cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, Movie Poster The Savage affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular Movie Poster The Savage entertainment and a Movie Poster The Savage powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements Movie Poster The Savage of cinema gives motion pictures a Movie Poster The Savage universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using Movie Poster The Savage dubbing Movie Poster The Savage or subtitles that translate the dialogue.
Traditional films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to Movie Poster The Savage an Movie Poster The Savage effect known as persistence Movie Poster The Savage of vision, whereby the eye retains a
The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact Movie Poster The Savage that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the Movie Poster The Savage primary medium for Movie Poster The Savage recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for Movie Poster The Savage producing artificially created, two-dimensional images Movie Poster The Savage in motion were demonstrated with devices such as Hentai Movie Downloads the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices Movie Poster The Savage (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures Movie Poster The Savage at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to Watch The Movie Shortbus Online be Movie Poster The Savage moving, a phenomenon called Movie Poster The Savage persistence of vision. Movie Poster The Savage Naturally, Movie Poster The Savage the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle became the basis for the development of film Movie Poster The Savage animation.
A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Louis Le Prince, 1888
With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early Movie Poster The Savage versions Movie Poster The Savage of the technology sometimes required Movie Poster The Savage a person Movie Poster The Savage to look into a viewing machine to see Movie Poster The Savage the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned Movie Poster The Savage by a handcrank. Movie Poster The Savage The pictures were shown Movie Poster The Savage at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or action with no editing Movie Poster The Savage or other cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Movie Poster The Savage Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films had Movie Poster The Savage gained Movie Poster The Savage a hold Movie Poster The Savage on Movie Poster The Savage the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots Movie Poster The Savage of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques Movie Poster The Savage such as Movie Poster The Savage camera movement were realized as effective ways to Movie Poster The Savage portray Movie Poster The Savage a story on film. Rather than Movie Poster The Savage leave the Movie Poster The Savage audience in Movie Poster The Savage silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to play music fitting the mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film Movie Poster The Savage scores being composed Movie Poster The Savage for major productions.
A Movie Poster The Savage shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to Movie Poster The Savage the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
The Movie Poster The Savage rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of World War I while the film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However Movie Poster The Savage in Movie Poster The Savage the Movie Poster The Savage 1920s, European Movie Poster The Savage filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to Movie Poster The Savage advance the medium. In the 1920s, Movie Poster The Savage new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each Movie Poster The Savage film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the Movie Poster The Savage screen. These sound films were Movie Poster The Savage initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies.
The Movie Poster The Savage next major step in the Movie Poster The Savage development of cinema Movie Poster The Savage was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of Movie Poster The Savage sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted Movie Poster The Savage more gradually as methods Movie Poster The Savage evolved making it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation Movie Poster The Savage needed] but as color processes improved and Movie Poster The Savage became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view color as essential to Movie Poster The Savage attracting Movie Poster The Savage audiences Movie Poster The Savage in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until Movie Poster The Savage the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter Movie Poster The Savage half of the 20th century. Digital technology has been the Movie Poster The Savage driving force in change throughout Frankenstein Movie With Gene Wilder the 1990s and into the 21st century.
Theory
Main article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts Movie Poster The Savage that apply to the study of film as art. It Movie Poster The Savage was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film Movie Poster The Savage theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized Movie Poster The Savage how film Movie Poster The Savage differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality not in Movie Poster The Savage its differences from reality, and this gave Movie Poster The Savage rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory and others.
Criticism
Main article: Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation Movie Poster The Savage of films. In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic Movie Poster The Savage criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other media.
Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media Movie Poster The Savage mainly review new releases. Normally Sid And Nancy Movie they only see any given Movie Poster The Savage film Movie Poster The Savage once and have only a day or two Movie Poster The Savage to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, Movie Poster The Savage and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall Movie Poster The Savage judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of Movie Poster The Savage a film that makes up the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on Movie Poster The Savage whether people decide Movie Poster The Savage to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, Movie Poster The Savage the influence Movie Poster The Savage of reviews is extremely Movie Poster The Savage important. Poor reviews will Movie Poster The Savage often doom a film to obscurity and financial Movie Poster The Savage loss.
The impact of a reviewer on a given film's box office performance is a Movie Poster The Savage matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent Movie Poster The Savage movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films Movie Poster The Savage in which film companies have Movie Poster The Savage so little confidence that they refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires as reviewers are wise to the Movie Poster The Savage tactic and warn the Movie Poster The Savage public that the film may Movie Poster The Savage not be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as Movie Poster The Savage a result.
It is argued Movie Poster The Savage that journalist film critics should only be known as film Movie Poster The Savage reviewers, and true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. This line of work is more often known as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt to come to understand how film and filming techniques work, and what effect they Movie Poster The Savage have on people. Rather than Movie Poster The Savage having their Movie Poster The Savage works published in newspapers or appear on television, their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend Movie Poster The Savage to Movie Poster The Savage be affiliated with colleges Movie Poster The Savage or universities.
Industry
Main Movie Poster The Savage article: Movie Poster The Savage Film industry
The making Movie Poster The Savage and showing of motion Movie Poster The Savage pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon Movie Poster The Savage seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent to exhibit Movie Poster The Savage the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. Movie Poster The Savage In each country, they would Movie Poster The Savage normally add new, local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and Movie Poster The Savage photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of Movie Poster The Savage 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their Movie Poster The Savage performances. Already Movie Poster The Savage by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
In the United Movie Poster The Savage States today, much of Movie Poster The Savage the film industry is Movie Poster The Savage centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which Movie Poster The Savage produces the Movie Poster The Savage largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the Movie Poster The Savage ten thousand-plus feature length Movie Poster The Savage films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should Movie Poster The Savage qualify for this title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Movie Poster The Savage Though the expense involved in Movie Poster The Savage making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film Movie Poster The Savage making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a key force Movie Poster The Savage in Movie Poster The Savage the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of filmmaking; many Movie Poster The Savage films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film Movie Poster The Savage awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits.
There is also Movie Poster The Savage a large industry for educational Movie Poster The Savage and instructional films made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a Movie Poster The Savage select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience Movie Poster The Savage reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting or even refilming Movie Poster The Savage certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or Movie Poster The Savage previews are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in Movie Poster The Savage the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at Movie Poster The Savage the end of a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the Movie Poster The Savage film (or the A movie in a double feature program) begins.
The nature of the Movie Poster The Savage film determines the size Movie Poster The Savage and type Movie Poster The Savage of crew required during filmmaking. Movie Poster The Savage Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, Movie Poster The Savage independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Also, an Movie Poster The Savage open source film may be produced through Movie Poster The Savage open, Movie Poster The Savage collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and Movie Poster The Savage genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio system.
This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken Movie Poster The Savage up with development. The second year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film crew
A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in Movie Poster The Savage front of the camera or provide Movie Poster The Savage voices Movie Poster The Savage for characters in the film. The crew interacts with Movie Poster The Savage but is also distinct from the Movie Poster The Savage production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, Movie Poster The Savage their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls Movie Poster The Savage in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Movie Poster The Savage Communication between production and crew generally passes through the director Movie Poster The Savage and his/her staff of Movie Poster The Savage assistants. Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, Movie Poster The Savage sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production Movie Poster The Savage special effects. Caterers (known in the film industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of Movie Poster The Savage the crew.
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Technology
Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, Movie Poster The Savage acetate, or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate Movie Poster The Savage was the first Movie Poster The Savage type of film base used to record motion Movie Poster The Savage pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and the film format for Movie Poster The Savage images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints.
Originally moving picture film Movie Poster The Savage was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard silent Movie Poster The Savage speed, research indicates most Movie Poster The Savage films were shot between 16 Movie Poster The Savage frame/s and 23 frame/s Movie Poster The Savage and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions on Movie Poster The Savage how fast Movie Poster The Savage each scene should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late Movie Poster The Savage 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per second was chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record at a Movie Poster The Savage consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring large Movie Poster The Savage "blimps" to encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in Movie Poster The Savage increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized Movie Poster The Savage sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same Movie Poster The Savage speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can Movie Poster The Savage be Movie Poster The Savage recorded separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are Movie Poster The Savage usually recorded simultaneously.
As a medium, film is not limited Movie Poster The Savage to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for Movie Poster The Savage photography. Movie Poster The Savage It can be used to present Movie Poster The Savage a progressive sequence of still images in the form of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, Movie Poster The Savage historic Movie Poster The Savage films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture industry Movie Poster The Savage is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them (as of 2006) a Movie Poster The Savage poor choice for long-term Movie Poster The Savage preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is Movie Poster The Savage a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies Movie Poster The Savage interested in preserving their existing products in Movie Poster The Savage order Movie Poster The Savage to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is Movie Poster The Savage generally a higher-concern for Movie Poster The Savage nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay rates; black and white films on Movie Poster The Savage safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints Movie Poster The Savage tend Movie Poster The Savage to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage.
Some films in Movie Poster The Savage recent decades Movie Poster The Savage have been recorded using analog video technology similar to that used in television production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can be evaluated and edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most major motion Movie Poster The Savage pictures are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
The Lumiere Brothers
Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An Movie Poster The Savage independent film (or indie Movie Poster The Savage film) Movie Poster The Savage is a Movie Poster The Savage film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to Movie Poster The Savage the growth of Movie Poster The Savage the indie film scene in the late 20th Movie Poster The Savage and early 21st century.
On the business side, Movie Poster The Savage the costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and Movie Poster The Savage crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing Movie Poster The Savage (over two-thirds Movie Poster The Savage of the films put out Movie Poster The Savage by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint Movie Poster The Savage ventures, up from Movie Poster The Savage 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given Movie Poster The Savage the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film unless he or she has significant industry experience in Movie Poster The Savage film or television. Also, Movie Poster The Savage the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.
Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star in a Movie Poster The Savage traditional studio Movie Poster The Savage film. The cost of 35 mm film Movie Poster The Savage is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, Movie Poster The Savage according to Variety.[2].
But the advent of consumer camcorders Movie Poster The Savage in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival Movie Poster The Savage of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology Movie Poster The Savage barrier Movie Poster The Savage to Movie Poster The Savage movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer. Movie Poster The Savage Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear Movie Poster The Savage editing Movie Poster The Savage system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, Movie Poster The Savage and consumer level software such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive.
Since the introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, create and edit Movie Poster The Savage the sound Movie Poster The Savage and music, Movie Poster The Savage and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely Movie Poster The Savage on film festivals to get their films Movie Poster The Savage noticed and Movie Poster The Savage sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh Movie Poster The Savage has further changed the film making landscape in Movie Poster The Savage ways that Movie Poster The Savage are still Movie Poster The Savage to be determined.
Open Movie Poster The Savage content film
Main article: Open content film
An open content film is much Movie Poster The Savage like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent Movie Poster The Savage filmmaking, open Movie Poster The Savage source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major Movie Poster The Savage studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A fan film is a film or video Movie Poster The Savage inspired Movie Poster The Savage by a film, television Movie Poster The Savage program, comic book or a similar Movie Poster The Savage source, Movie Poster The Savage created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan Movie Poster The Savage filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the more notable films have actually been Movie Poster The Savage produced Movie Poster The Savage by professional filmmakers as film school class projects or Movie Poster The Savage as Movie Poster The Savage demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures to rarer full-length Pirates X Movie Clips motion pictures
Animation is the technique in which each frame of Movie Poster The Savage a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small Movie Poster The Savage changes to a model unit (see Movie Poster The Savage claymation and stop Movie Poster The Savage motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per Movie Poster The Savage second, Movie Poster The Savage there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very Movie Poster The Savage labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the Movie Poster The Savage process.
File formats like Movie Poster The Savage GIF, Movie Poster The Savage QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation to Movie Poster The Savage be viewed on a computer or over the Internet.
Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of Movie Poster The Savage animation for Movie Poster The Savage TV and Movie Poster The Savage movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of Movie Poster The Savage independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation producers Movie Poster The Savage have gone on to enter the professional Movie Poster The Savage animation industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by Movie Poster The Savage other studios as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3]
Although most animation Movie Poster The Savage studios are now using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of animation that depends on film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Movie Poster The Savage Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and drawn directly onto pieces Movie Poster The Savage of film, and then run through a projector.
Venues
When it is initially produced, a feature film is Movie Poster The Savage often shown Movie Poster The Savage to Movie Poster The Savage audiences in a Movie Poster The Savage movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed Movie Poster The Savage exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in Movie Poster The Savage 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In Movie Loops For Your Videos the United States, these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents).
Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or Movie Poster The Savage feature film). Before the 1970s, there Movie Poster The Savage were "double features"; typically, Movie Poster The Savage a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" Movie Poster The Savage of lower quality Movie Poster The Savage rented for Movie Poster The Savage a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of Movie Poster The Savage the material shown before the feature film consists Movie Poster The Savage of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known Movie Poster The Savage as trailers or "The Twenty").
Historically, all mass marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie Movie Poster The Savage theaters. The development of television has allowed films to Movie Poster The Savage be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording Movie Poster The Savage technology has Movie Poster The Savage also enabled consumers to Movie Poster The Savage rent Movie Poster The Savage or buy copies of films Movie Poster The Savage on VHS Movie Poster The Savage or DVD (and the older formats of Movie Poster The Savage laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are now made specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in similar genres, and indeed, some films that are Movie Poster The Savage rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets.
The movie theater pays an average of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film Movie Poster The Savage rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, Movie Poster The Savage and decreases as the duration of Movie Poster The Savage a film's showing continues, as an incentive to theaters to keep Movie Poster The Savage movies Movie Poster The Savage in the theater longer. Movie Poster The Savage However, today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown in first-run theaters for less than 8 weeks. There are a few movies every year that Movie Poster The Savage defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start Movie Poster The Savage in only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% came from VHS and DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from Movie Poster The Savage television (broadcast, Movie Poster The Savage cable, and pay-per-view).[6]
Future state
While motion picture films have been around for more than Movie Poster The Savage a century, film Movie Poster The Savage is still a Movie Poster The Savage relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of Movie Poster The Savage local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of Movie Poster The Savage color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select Movie Poster The Savage films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas.
In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home Movie Poster The Savage theater amplification systems with surround sound and Movie Poster The Savage subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio Movie Poster The Savage and visual reproduction. These Movie Poster The Savage new technologies provided audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had been able Movie Poster The Savage to provide: a large, clear widescreen Movie Poster The Savage presentation of a film Movie Poster The Savage with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Movie Poster The Savage Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of Movie Poster The Savage the Movie Poster The Savage local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), Movie Poster The Savage a development which may give local theaters a reprieve from Movie Poster The Savage their predicted demise.
The cinema Movie Poster The Savage now Movie Poster The Savage faces Movie Poster The Savage a new challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p Movie Poster The Savage video playback at near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions and quality that film offers, 1080p Movie Poster The Savage in Blu-ray offers a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a leap from the DVD offering Movie Poster The Savage of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by the first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film Movie Poster The Savage currently offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, Movie Poster The Savage a future digital video Movie Poster The Savage format, will offer a massive Movie Poster The Savage |
