Digital Technologies and Technological Advances

What if our life becomes fully dependent on the electronic devices in the future? “In Into the Electronic Millennium”, Birkerts discusses his concerns with the oncoming electronic world. Birkerts provides lots of cons about the electronic devices that can affect people's lives. The author’s intention for writing this essay is to make the audience aware of the significant changes that have started to occur as electronic technologies have developed. He uses various rhetorical devices to convey his arguments to the readers. Through this essay, he is trying to inform the academic community that the culture of printed words has ended in the society, while electronic technologies are starting to dominate. Birkerts uses anecdotes, juxtaposition,

Although cinema is now a priority, some feel as if cinema is no longer the cinema when it was first established. Movies no longer have that special feeling like viewers once had. Today, films are not only shared within a theater, if one pleases they could always have the same experience elsewhere. Moreover, with technology expanding, it takes away the importance cinema once had. “The

This essay explores the popularity of Australian film, both locally and internationally and asks the question: Is there a crisis in the Australian Film Industry? This essay will go through the current issues the Australian Film Industry and will demonstrate examples of those problems.

“The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience 's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker, I know, is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now. '” This quote by English playwright and screenwriter, Lee Hall, from an essay he published in the Times of London, is central to the connection between theatre and motion picture technology. Since the rise of film in the early twentieth century, these elements have been influencing each other, and working together, to elevate the storytelling and experience of each medium and, in turn, better connecting them to the modern audience. The collaboration of these two mediums has resulted in a new form of theatre, known as digital theatre, that shows “theatrical entertainment does not have to be either purist (involving only ‘live’ actors on stage), or be consumed by the dominant televisual mass media, but can gain from the strengths of both types of communication.”(Masura). Throughout this paper, the intersection of theatre and motion picture technology will be explored through their effect on each other, in storytelling and experience, and the product of their collaboration—digital theatre.

Hundreds of movies are released every year. Filmmakers try to create the next jaw-dropping movie that audiences will stand in line for hours and pay top dollar to see. The key to success is finding ideas that appeal to a mass audience. Viewers are the lifeline of any production company so making something for everyone is a savvy business move for the film industry. To cover all bases, there are over fourteen different genres of movies. Film making is not a solo effort. It is a collaboration between the actors, directors, producers and other key contributors. This combined effort or mise-en-scene includes all the elements of the film to include actors, backdrops, costumes, props and lighting used to meet the director’s vision

One of cinema's most unexpected, artistically fertile iterations in the 21st century is the viral video, a Warholian flash of lightning: brief, often concept-less, zigzagging across the globe on bright computer/phone screens, and then, just as quickly, vanishing from relevance. This new medium's Meliesian pioneer is a mercurial figure whose fifteen minutes of fame has miraculously protracted into a decade's-worth of cultish, vaudevillian mini-movies; their deranged comedy, hot-topic commentary, and punning, shade-infused manifestoes of give-no-fucks self-reliance are devotedly watched and shared by a small legion of loyal fans. When Chris Crocker, frail, snaggletoothed, lachrymose, uploaded a wailing defense of Britney Spears onto YouTube during

Since the introduction of YouTube almost 10 years ago, the site has grow well past a simple website that comes and goes with trends. YouTube has now become a major player in entertainment media. It now attracts thousands of advertisers and business’ in attempt to grab the attention of the growing Internet audience. The difference between television productions and YouTube productions is who is on the other end of the camera. The creator, actor, editor, and marketing person are all in one individual. An array of people are now taking their career’s into their own hands and attracting their own audiences. These people now find themselves in a new era of media in which everyone including their income is coming to them from comfort of their homes. In my paper, I plan to discuss how the internet has created a new form of fame that as well gives those who are famous an income, and career that could last long past their three minute video post.

The film industry has continuously changed since its inception due to rapid technology advancements. Camera technology has been a key factor that has influenced the growth of filmmaking. The first motion picture in the world was produced in the early 1880s, and the first public screening occurred ten years later. It didn’t take long for the quality of films to improve as new filmmaking equipment emerged. Ever since the first movie was produced, the film industry has been continuously changing in response to emerging filmmaking technology. Introduction of digital photography and digital data storage along with the development of internet significantly influenced the film industry (Barsam, 2015). These technologies contributed

The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.

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Everywhere people look, there is a screen. Whether it’s a laptop, television, phone, tablet, or a cinema, screens encompass society. Additionally, the content we watch on these devices is growing at a prolific rate. This is due to easy access of programs, like Final Cut, Premiere Pro, and iMovie, that allow basically anyone to make their own video or movie. Some say that this ability to produce movies easier than ever before poses a threat to the integrity of the movie industry, claiming streaming sites, legitimate or otherwise, are shifting people away from the theater and moving them toward home entertainment.

The times are changing, and so is Hollywood, according to Edward Jay Epstein, author of the article “Why Hollywood’s Business Model Is Bad News for Creativity”. He believes that the big Hollywood studios that mass-produce movies nowadays have ruined the future for low-budget films that are more about creativity and good dialogue. In this article, Epstein appears to be reaching out to anyone who enjoys movies, and is informing the readers about the truth behind the movies we all know and love. The animated or comic-based movies that take over the big screen are making it almost impossible for the more original film makers to produce films that aren’t driven by a franchise and

The costs, methods of distribution, and themes of Hollywood and Nollywood films reflect strongly their target audiences; how the target audience affects the production of a film and how the production of a movie is designed to capture a specific

Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so, you are put into a different lifestyle. Action, drama or comedy it may be. We are thrust into a different way of thinking. We are forced to learn the characters thoughts and feelings. The hard work and artistic skill that goes into these magnificent films is not an easy thing to mimic. Out of the thousands of movies released worldwide each year only a handful are truly worthy of the label film art. Most of the great movies are either produced by a multi million dollar

Henry Jenkins describes convergence as ‘a situation where multiple media systems coexist and where media content flows fluidly across them’ (2006: 282). An important part of the information transferred across platforms are the techniques utilised in creation. Digital technologies have no doubt had a large impact on moving images and how they are developed and produced in the modern world. There has been the introduction of inexpensive consumer digital recording devices, and the ability to create a video with mobile phones rather than needing a separate dedicated device. This has led to growth in the creation of amateur moving images on platforms such as YouTube in a variety of forms. As well as inspiring the creation of new areas of production, digital advances have enabled further evolution in more traditional areas. Early cinematic pioneers dabbled with in-camera trickery in order to create fantastical scenes and amaze viewers, and this principle carries forward to today. Matt Reeve’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) is a good example of the intriguing applications of digital technology in order to achieve these old goals in a potentially better way. As with the introduction of any new way to achieve a goal, the opportunities available to content creators have multiplied with the growth in the variety of digital techniques. The power particular innovations in technology can have in their contribution is perhaps underlined by the impact they have had in less revered