How Did Directors And Film Execution Begin?

Film editing is described, when typed in to google as “the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film” `but it is much more than just that. If done well it is invisible but also has the ability to control a film, even control the viewer watching the film. The process of editing film has been around nearly as long as film itself. After the cinema of attractions, people realised a narrative story could be constructed by splicing ends of celluloid together to tell a story. The most famous early example of this is The Great Train Robbery (1903) directed by Edwin S. Porter. Before Porters film the cinema of attractions consisted of single shot films of streets and crowded areas, projected later that day so that the people could see themselves on the big screen.

Film has been a prominent topic in society since its conception. One of the most important physical areas of film creation is located in Hollywood, California. Hollywood has produced some of the most recognizable directors and film creators. Walter Elias Disney is one major example of this. He is still extremely well known because of the vast business he created that is still thriving today. Many people have argued that his career fits within either the classical auteur theory or the structuralist auteur theory, but no argument has been as strong as the one that supports Disney’s career as the commercial auteur theory. The fact that Walt Disney’s work was very much affected by elements outside of his films shows that his career fits within the commercial, or consumer, auteur film theory.

Animation started in 1831 with the creation of the phenakistoscope by Joseph Antoine Plateau and Simon Rittrer. This was a rotating disk with drawings in the inside of another disk, which gave the illusion of movement.

With any successful business, the boss and management play a very essential part when coordinating a specific task. In a film, the director plays the same role and holds just as much importance. The director is in charge of making “crucial decisions about performance, staging, lighting, framing, cutting, and sound” (Bordwell). At some point during the 1950’s, the French brought forth the term auteur for those directors at the time in Hollywood which they felt had a unique approach to film.

Discuss the origins and main developments of auteur theory then examine the works of Howard Hawks and Martin Scorsese with relevance to their status as auteur directors.

Our society has been influenced by the invention of the film. History The very first patented film camera was conceptualized in England by a Frenchman by the name of Louis le Prince in 1888.

Film is a theme and character driven film that documents the progression of the two main characters from regular teenagers to violent criminals. Unlike most movies that document lives in a fly on the wall style, Film often shows the scenes from the points of view of the main characters. It does this by showing many close ups on their faces allowing the actors performances to be clear and visible to the audience and also by the editing and composition; shots showing exactly what the characters are seeing. This allows the audience to truly understand the characters and to provoke a personal emotional response. Here I will analyse the elements of film, describing techniques and why they are used.

In the USA the “New Hollywood” was in its prime, with directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. These directors became very important in these times because the director became the leader of the film project, rather than a producer. The New Hollywood was different from the classical form mostly in its narrative. (2) The classical Hollywood way was to tell a story of a developing character. (1) However,

Throughout chapter one we are well informed about cinema from 1880 to the 1904. Cinema was invented in 1890; it offered a cheaper way of providing entertainment to a mass amount of people. Before cinema there were preconditions for motion pictures. There were five of these conditions: 1. Scientist had to realize how the human eye perceived motion images. 2. How were they going to project a rapid display of images? 3. How could they use photography to make clear images? 4. How could the photos be flexible? 5. Finding a suitable machine for cameras and projectors.

Animation had been around for a short while but was not used as a large filming technique. It was only used in short sequences and had not been fully developed. phenakistoscope is an early example of animation, show below the device spins around to create a moving picture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation During 1910 many short animations were created and eventually animation became an industry of its own.

To tell the truth, the film industry has evolved and grown very quickly since its creation in the early 1900’s. Over the years, it has gained the attention of every culture in every part of the world. These days, thanks to its popularity, it is a big part in shaping the social culture by changing the audience's’ opinions or swaying them one way or another. The idea that a film

Stanley Kubrick is distinguished director famous for his unique auteur method of work, his devotion to filmmaking and his signature visual style and narrative composition. Even after his death in 1999, people still would describe him as a secretive and reclusive man, who is hard to work with. Malcolm McDowell who worked with Kubrick on his adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) rejected the rumours that Stanley was hard to work with, but he was quiet and introverted, other close friends or family members to Stanley would identify him as quiet but also outgoing creative genius (Bogdanovich in Hughes, 2000 p: xi). His projects were carefully chosen and involved films that became cultural treasures like 2001: A

The aim of this essay is to evaluate my personal experience and challenges I faced during particular specialist role on the Major Project. Also, the learning outcomes, achievements and responsibilities would be discovered through the analysis in this review by concentrating on the specific role and filmmaking in general.

During the mid to late years of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment emerged. Film entered the stage of innovation. New marketing and technological innovations developed for film to become the art it is today. In the 1830s, Joseph Plateau designed the Phenakistoscope. This device had a picture in the middle of a wheel made with mirrors and small openings. When spun, the Phenakistoscope made the picture appear to move. The name changed to Zoetrope in the 1860s and producers advertised the product as an accessory every home needed (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Later inventions that preceded the first motion picture camera include: Henry Du Mont’s Omiscope, Henry R. Heyl’s Phasmatrope, Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoöpraxiscope, Etienne-Jules Marey’s fusil photographique and Eastman Kodak’s chronophotographs (Parkinson, 1997). With a design by Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson built the first modern movie camera, the Kinetograph, in 1890 (Dixon & Foster, 2008). In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiére patented the Cinématographe, a machine that combined the engineering of a camera and a projector (Bergan, 2006). Businessmen capitalized on the growing need for a place to witness these brand new films, thus they charged people to see them in their living rooms (Potter, 2014). These creations made movie-making a reality.

No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I'm sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott's Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. "It's different than other arts. It had to be invented"