Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an He Got Game Movie art form, and the motion picture industry. Films He Got Game Movie are produced by recording images from He Got Game Movie the world with cameras, or by creating images using He Got Game Movie animation techniques or special effects.
Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, He Got Game Movie which reflect those cultures, and, in He Got Game Movie turn, affect them. Film is considered He Got Game Movie to He Got Game Movie be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. He Got Game Movie The visual elements He Got Game Movie of cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by He Got Game Movie using dubbing He Got Game Movie or subtitles that He Got Game Movie 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 an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye He Got Game Movie retains a
The origin of the name "film" He Got Game Movie comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the primary He Got Game Movie medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, He Got Game Movie including picture, picture show, He Got Game Movie 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 producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated with devices He Got Game Movie such He Got Game Movie as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be He Got Game Movie moving, a phenomenon called He Got Game Movie persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle became the basis for the development of film 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 versions of the technology sometimes required a person to look He Got Game Movie into a viewing machine to see He Got Game Movie the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned He Got Game Movie by a handcrank. The pictures were shown 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 He Got Game Movie operated. By the 1880s, He Got Game Movie the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and stored on He Got Game Movie 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" He Got Game Movie onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so He Got Game Movie exhibited, came to be known as "motion He Got Game Movie pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an He Got Game Movie event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through He Got Game Movie the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn He Got Game Movie of the twentieth He Got Game Movie century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and He Got Game Movie angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a He Got Game Movie pianist or organist or He Got Game Movie a full orchestra to play He Got Game Movie music He Got Game Movie fitting the mood of He Got Game Movie the film He Got Game Movie at Movie Popcorn Boxes any given moment. By He Got Game Movie the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film scores being composed for major productions.
A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
The rise of European cinema He Got Game Movie was interrupted by the breakout of World War I while the film He Got Game Movie industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such He Got Game Movie as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and He Got Game Movie the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to advance the medium. In the 1920s, new technology He Got Game Movie allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies.
The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, He Got Game Movie color was adopted more Movie Skirt Panties gradually as methods evolved He Got Game Movie 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 needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and He Got Game Movie more movies were filmed He Got Game Movie in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. He Got Game Movie By the end of the He Got Game Movie 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio system in the He Got Game Movie 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of He Got Game Movie film. New Hollywood, French He Got Game Movie New Wave and the He Got Game Movie rise of film school educated independent He Got Game Movie filmmakers were He Got Game Movie all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half He Got Game Movie of He Got Game Movie the 20th He Got Game Movie century. Digital technology has He Got Game Movie been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.
Theory
Main He Got Game Movie article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as He Got Game Movie art. It was started He Got Game Movie by Ricciotto He Got Game Movie Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried He Got Game Movie Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing that film's artistic He Got Game Movie essence lay in its ability He Got Game Movie to mechanically reproduce reality not in its differences from He Got Game Movie reality, and this gave rise to realist He Got Game Movie theory. More recent analysis spurred He Got Game Movie by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical He Got Game Movie film theory, structuralist He Got Game Movie film He Got Game Movie theory, feminist film theory and others.
Criticism
Main article: Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. He Got Game Movie In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that He Got Game Movie appears regularly in newspapers and other media.
Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast He Got Game Movie media mainly review new releases. Normally they only He Got Game Movie see any He Got Game Movie given film once and have only a day or two to formulate opinions. He Got Game Movie Despite this, critics have an He Got Game Movie important impact on He Got Game Movie films, especially those Movie Review Of Braveheart of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not He Got Game Movie to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot He Got Game Movie summary and description of a film that makes He Got Game Movie up the He Got Game Movie majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a He Got Game Movie film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. He Got Game Movie Poor reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss.
The impact of a He Got Game Movie reviewer on a given He Got Game Movie film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an He Got Game Movie impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure He Got Game Movie of some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected He Got Game Movie success of critically praised independent 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. He Got Game Movie Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies have so little confidence that they refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this He Got Game Movie usually backfires as reviewers are wise to He Got Game Movie the tactic and warn the public that the film may not be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as He Got Game Movie a result.
It is He Got Game Movie argued that journalist film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and true He Got Game Movie film critics are those who take He Got Game Movie a more academic approach to films. This line of He Got Game Movie work is more often known as He Got Game Movie film theory He Got Game Movie or film studies. These film critics attempt to come to understand how film and filming techniques work, and He Got Game Movie what effect they have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear He Got Game Movie on television, their articles are He Got Game Movie published in He Got Game Movie scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend to be He Got Game Movie affiliated with colleges or universities.
Industry
Main article: Film industry
The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. He Got Game Movie Upon He Got Game Movie seeing He Got Game Movie how successful their new invention, and its product, was He Got Game Movie in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent He Got Game Movie to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. He Got Game Movie In each country, they would normally add new, local scenes to their catalogue He Got Game Movie and, quickly enough, found He Got Game Movie local entrepreneurs in the He Got Game Movie various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import and screen He Got Game Movie additional He Got Game Movie product commercially. The Oberammergau He Got Game Movie Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that He Got Game Movie overshadowed the vaudeville world. He Got Game Movie Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and He Got Game Movie distribute films, while motion picture actors became He Got Game Movie major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. He Got Game Movie Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an He Got Game Movie annual salary of He Got Game Movie one million dollars.
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In the United States today, much of the film industry He Got Game Movie is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's He Got Game Movie Hindi cinema which produces the largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus He Got Game Movie feature length films a year produced by He Got Game Movie the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Though the He Got Game Movie expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie He Got Game Movie studios, recent advances in affordable film making He Got Game Movie equipment have Movie Monster Vod allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a He Got Game Movie key force in the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of filmmaking; many films have large He Got Game Movie cost overruns, a He Got Game Movie notorious example being He Got Game Movie Kevin Costner's He Got Game Movie 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 He Got Game Movie United States, providing recognition each year to He Got Game Movie films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits.
There is also a He Got Game Movie large industry for educational and instructional films He Got Game Movie made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A He Got Game Movie preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before He Got Game Movie the He Got Game Movie public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting He Got Game Movie or He Got Game Movie even refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or previews are film He Got Game Movie advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes He Got Game Movie from their having originally been shown at the end of a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater He Got Game Movie after the films He Got Game Movie ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the A movie in a double feature program) begins.
The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, He Got Game Movie independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film He Got Game Movie may He Got Game Movie be produced He Got Game Movie through open, He Got Game Movie collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using He Got Game Movie different technologies, styles of acting and 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 He Got Game Movie takes three years. The He Got Game Movie first He Got Game Movie year is taken up with development. The second year comprises He Got Game Movie preproduction and production. The third year, post-production He Got Game Movie and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film He Got Game Movie crew
A film He Got Game Movie crew is a group of people He Got Game Movie hired by a film He Got Game Movie 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 He Got Game Movie appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the He Got Game Movie production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication He Got Game Movie between production and crew generally passes through the He Got Game Movie director and his/her He Got Game Movie staff of 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, He Got Game Movie the crew handles everything in the photography phase: He Got Game Movie props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), He Got Game Movie sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in the film industry as "craft services") are usually not He Got Game Movie considered part of the He Got Game Movie crew.
Technology
Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base He Got Game Movie coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and the film format for 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 was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though He Got Game Movie 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited He Got Game Movie as a standard silent speed, He Got Game Movie research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels He Got Game Movie included instructions on how fast each scene should be shown) [1]. When sound He Got Game Movie film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per second was He Got Game Movie chosen because He Got Game Movie 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 consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound He Got Game Movie recorded on-set to be usable without requiring large "blimps" He Got Game Movie to encase the camera, He Got Game Movie the invention of He Got Game Movie more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to He Got Game Movie film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing He Got Game Movie sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding He Got Game Movie action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, but for He Got Game Movie live-action He Got Game Movie pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously.
As a medium, film is not limited to motion He Got Game Movie pictures, since the technology He Got Game Movie developed as the basis for photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence of still images in the form of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into He Got Game Movie multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation He Got Game Movie and storage, and the motion picture industry is exploring He Got Game Movie many alternatives. Most He Got Game Movie movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety He Got Game Movie 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 He Got Game Movie reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also been used to He Got Game Movie restore He Got Game Movie films, although their continued obsolescence He Got Game Movie cycle makes them (as of 2006) a poor choice for long-term He Got Game Movie preservation. He Got Game Movie Film preservation of decaying film He Got Game Movie stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and Grudge Movie Clips archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is generally a higher-concern He Got Game Movie for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their He Got Game Movie 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 He Got Game Movie using analog video technology similar to that used in television production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors He Got Game Movie are gaining ground as well. He Got Game Movie These approaches are He Got Game Movie extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can be evaluated and edited He Got Game Movie without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as White Noise Movie Trailer of 2005 most He Got Game Movie major motion pictures are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
The Lumiere Brothers
Independent filmmaking often takes place He Got Game Movie 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 major Movie Amateur movie studio. Creative, business, He Got Game Movie and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early He Got Game Movie 21st He Got Game Movie century.
On the business side, the costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards He Got Game Movie co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint He Got Game Movie ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A He Got Game Movie hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film unless He Got Game Movie he or she has significant industry experience in film or television. Also, He Got Game Movie 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 traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing He Got Game Movie inflation: in 2002 He Got Game Movie alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2].
But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and He Got Game Movie more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, Movie Theatres In Moreno Valley have lowered the technology barrier He Got Game Movie to movie He Got Game Movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have He Got Game Movie 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 such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make He Got Game Movie movie-making relatively inexpensive.
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Since He Got Game Movie the introduction of He Got Game Movie DV technology, He Got Game Movie the means of production have become more He Got Game Movie democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, create and edit the sound He Got Game Movie and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the means of He Got Game Movie production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to He Got Game Movie accomplish outside He Got Game Movie the traditional system. Most independent He Got Game Movie filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films noticed He Got Game Movie and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh He Got Game Movie has further changed the film He Got Game Movie making landscape in ways He Got Game Movie that are still to be determined.
Open content film
Main article: Open content film
An open content film is He Got Game Movie much like an independent film, but it is produced through He Got Game Movie open collaborations; its source material is He Got Game Movie available under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create He Got Game Movie fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, He Got Game Movie or other He Got Game Movie major studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A fan film He Got Game Movie is a He Got Game Movie film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created He Got Game Movie by fans rather than by He Got Game Movie the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some He Got Game Movie of the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers He Got Game Movie as film school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary He Got Game Movie tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for He Got Game Movie non-existent motion pictures to He Got Game Movie rarer full-length motion pictures
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced He Got Game Movie individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn He Got Game Movie image, or by repeatedly making small He Got Game Movie changes to a model He Got Game Movie unit He Got Game Movie (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung together and the He Got Game Movie resulting film He Got Game Movie is He Got Game Movie viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per He Got Game Movie second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is He Got Game Movie very labour intensive and tedious, though the He Got Game Movie development of computer animation has greatly sped He Got Game Movie up the process.
File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow He Got Game Movie animation to be viewed on a computer or over the Internet.
Because animation is very He Got Game Movie time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority He Got Game Movie of animation for TV and movies He Got Game Movie comes He Got Game Movie from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with He Got Game Movie animation He Got Game Movie being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the He Got Game Movie professional animation industry.
Limited animation He Got Game Movie is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This He Got Game Movie method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and Movie Therters adapted by other studios as He Got Game Movie cartoons moved from movie theaters He Got Game Movie to television.[3]
Although He Got Game Movie most animation studios are now He Got Game Movie 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 He Got Game Movie of film, and then run through a projector.
Venues
When it He Got Game Movie is initially produced, He Got Game Movie a feature film is often He Got Game Movie shown He Got Game Movie to audiences in a movie theater or cinema. He Got Game Movie The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in He Got Game Movie 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or He Got Game Movie converted from existing He Got Game Movie facilities within a few years.[5] In the United States, He Got Game Movie these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, He Got Game Movie because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents).
Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality He Got Game Movie "A picture" rented He Got Game Movie by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage He Got Game Movie of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material shown before the feature film consists of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty").
Historically, all mass marketed feature He Got Game Movie films were made to be shown in movie He Got Game Movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast Movie Supplier to larger audiences, usually after the film is He Got Game Movie no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy He Got Game Movie copies He Got Game Movie of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and He Got Game Movie SelectaVision � see also videodisc), He Got Game Movie and Internet downloads may be available and have started He Got Game Movie to become revenue He Got Game Movie sources for the film companies. Some films are now He Got Game Movie made specifically for these other venues, being He Got Game Movie released as made-for-TV He Got Game Movie 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, He Got Game Movie some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets.
The He Got Game Movie movie theater pays an average of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration He Got Game Movie of a He Got Game Movie film's showing continues, He Got Game Movie as an He Got Game Movie incentive to theaters to keep movies in the theater longer. 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 defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start in only a He Got Game Movie few theaters and actually grow He Got Game Movie their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, He Got Game Movie about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide He Got Game Movie income came from box office ticket sales; 46% came from VHS and He Got Game Movie DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view).[6]
Future state
While motion He Got Game Movie picture films have been around for more than a He Got Game Movie century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, He Got Game Movie when television He Got Game Movie became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over He Got Game Movie the 1960s and 1970s, such as He Got Game Movie the development of He Got Game Movie color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In He Got Game Movie the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select 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 theater amplification systems with surround sound He Got Game Movie and subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select He Got Game Movie and view films at home with greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These He Got Game Movie new technologies provided audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had He Got Game Movie been able to provide: a He Got Game Movie large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality He Got Game Movie multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts predicted the He Got Game Movie demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards He Got Game Movie digital screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via He Got Game Movie satellite or hard disks), a development which may give local He Got Game Movie theaters a reprieve from their predicted demise.
The cinema now faces a new challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which He Got Game Movie can provide full HD 1080p video playback at near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions He Got Game Movie and quality that film offers, 1080p He Got Game Movie in Blu-ray offers a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a leap from the He Got Game Movie DVD offering of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by the He Got Game Movie first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently He Got Game Movie offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, He Got Game Movie UHD, a future digital video format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680?4320, Movie Downloads Win2k surpassing all current He Got Game Movie film resolutions. The He Got Game Movie only viable competitor to these He Got Game Movie new innovations is He Got Game Movie IMAX which can play film content at an extreme 10000?7000 resolution.
Despite He Got Game Movie the rise of all new technologies, the development of the home video market and a He Got Game Movie surge of online piracy, He Got Game Movie 2007 was a record year in film that showed He Got Game Movie the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer as a result of the effects listed above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations He Got Game Movie for the future. |
