Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn world with cameras, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or by creating images using animation techniques Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or special effects.
Films are Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn The visual elements Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of cinema Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.
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The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact that photographic Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film (also called film stock) had historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and most commonly, movie. Additional terms Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn mechanisms for Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn motion were demonstrated with devices Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn such as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn These machines were outgrowths of simple Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn optical devices Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the images on Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn underlying principle became the basis for Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the development of film animation.
A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Louis Le Prince, 1888
With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn real time. Early versions Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of the technology sometimes required a person to look into a viewing machine to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn see the pictures which were Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn separate paper prints attached Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn shine light through the processed and printed film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn screen for an entire audience. These Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn reels, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn so exhibited, came to be known Movie Review Of Braveheart as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Around Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative structure by Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn stringing scenes together to tell Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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 Movie Monster Vod complete film scores being composed for major productions.
A shot from Georges Melies Le Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Voyage dans Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn narrative film.
The Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of World War I while the film industry in United States Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Lang, along Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn advance the medium. In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the action on the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn "talking pictures", or talkies.
The next major step in Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the development of cinema was the introduction Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn more gradually Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn as methods evolved making it more practical Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and-white Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film, more and more movies were Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn filmed in color after the end Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of World War II, as the industry in Grudge Movie Clips America came to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn view Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn color as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn essential to attracting audiences in its competition with Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the end of the 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn decades saw changes in the production and style of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and the rise of film school Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of the 20th century. Digital Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn technology has been the driving force in change Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.
Theory
Main article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn apply to the study of film as art. It Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film differed from reality, and thus could be considered Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn reproduce reality not in its differences from reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn among other Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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 Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of films. In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn media.
Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and broadcast Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn media mainly review new releases. Normally they only see any given film once and have only a day or two to formulate opinions. Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Despite this, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn that makes up the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film to obscurity and financial loss.
The impact of White Noise Movie Trailer a reviewer on a given film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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 Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn success of critically praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn have considerable influence. Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies have so little confidence that they Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn reviewers are wise to the tactic and warn the public that the film may not be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result.
It is argued that journalist film critics should only be known as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film reviewers, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn films. Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn This line of work is more often Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn known as film theory or Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film studies. These film critics attempt to come to understand how film and filming techniques work, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and what effect Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn they have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, their articles are published Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Movie Amateur in scholarly journals, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn be affiliated with colleges or Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn universities.
Industry
Main article: Film industry
The making and showing of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn motion pictures became a source of profit Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn almost as soon as the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn process was invented. Upon seeing how successful Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn about Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, local Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 1898[citation needed] was Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
In the United States today, much of the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film industry is 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 produces the largest number of films Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of some debate.[citation needed] Though the expense involved in making Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn studios, recent advances in affordable film making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a key Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn force in the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of filmmaking; many films have large cost overruns, a notorious Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn example Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn being Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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 awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn artistic merits.
There is also Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn a large industry for educational and instructional Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn films made in Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn lieu of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting or even Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or previews Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn "trailer" comes from Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn their having originally been shown at Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the end of a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the A movie in a double feature program) Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn begins.
The Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn often paid very little. Also, an open source film may be produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn studio system.
This production cycle Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn typically takes three years. The first year is taken 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 Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn a Movie Theatres In Moreno Valley film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or provide voices for characters Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct from Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production and crew Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn generally passes through the director and his/her staff of assistants. Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn production special effects. Caterers (known in the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film industry as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn "craft services") are usually not considered part of the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn crew.
Technology
Film stock consists Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn widths Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the film format for images on the reel have Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn had a rich history, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn though most Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn large commercial films are Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn mm prints.
Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn generally cited Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn as a standard Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn silent speed, research Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn indicates Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn on how fast each scene Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 1920s, a constant Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn speed Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn was required Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn for the sound head. 24 frames per second was chosen because it was the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 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 consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn on-set Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to be usable without requiring large "blimps" to encase the camera, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the invention Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of more sophisticated filmstocks and Movie Therters lenses, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of the soundtrack are usually recorded Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn simultaneously.
As a medium, film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn still images in the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn form of a slideshow. Film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn has importance Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn motion picture industry 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 poor choice for long-term preservation. Film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn preservation of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn decaying film stock is a matter Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of concern to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn their high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage.
Some films in recent decades have been recorded using analog video technology similar to that used in television production. Modern digital video cameras Movie Supplier and digital projectors are gaining ground as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn moviemakers, especially because footage can be evaluated and Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn edited without waiting for the film stock Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most major motion pictures Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
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Independent filmmaking often takes place Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the growth Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn 21st century.
On the business side, the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn unless he Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn or Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn she has significant industry experience in film or Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn television. Also, the studios rarely produce Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.
Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn professional film equipment and stock was Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn also a hurdle Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to being able Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn according to Variety.[2].
But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn barrier to 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. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn relatively inexpensive.
Since the introduction of DV technology, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn create and edit the sound and music, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn means of production Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn noticed and Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh has further Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn changed the Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film making landscape in Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn ways that are still to be determined.
Open content Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn film
Main article: Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn Open content film
An open content film is much like an independent film, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn but it is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn fan film is a film or video Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn source, created Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn been amateurs, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn but some of the more notable Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn films Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn trailers for Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn non-existent motion Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn pictures Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn rarer full-length motion Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn pictures
Animation is the technique in which each Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn frame of a film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn is produced individually, whether generated as Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop 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 second, there is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn an illusion Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process.
File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to be viewed on a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn computer or over the Internet.
Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent animation has existed at least since Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn process. This method was pioneered by UPA Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, Movie Downloads Win2k and adapted by other Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn studios as cartoons moved from movie Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn theaters to television.[3]
Although most animation 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, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and drawn directly onto pieces of film, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn and then run through a projector.
Venues
When it is initially produced, a feature film is often shown Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn to audiences He Got Game Movie in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the United States, these theaters came to be known Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents).
Typically, one film is Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn lump sum, and a "B picture" Movie Theatre Turkey Creek Knoxville Tn of lower quality rented Movie |
