Motion Film Industry

What is the future of filmmaking? In today’s society technology controls almost every aspect of our day to day lives. With a profession such as film and TV there would be no improvement without the advancement of technology. The future of filmmaking all depends on the success of today’s technology.

The advent of motion pictures and the cinema is an event that has created experiences that influence my society's reality. There are those artists, critics,

“The biggest mistake we have made is to consider that films are primarily a form of entertainment. The film is the greatest medium since the invention of movable type for exchanging ideas and information, and it is no more at its best in light entertainment than literature is at its best in the light novel.” - Orson Welles

I love movies. For as long as I can remember, I’ve harvested a passionate, slightly embarrassing obsession with film. The way in which cinema can paint such vivid and beautiful moving images, portray moving stories containing a wide range of emotion and narrative threads, leaving a long-term impact on the viewer, all within a runtime of two hours or so, captured my fascination at an early age. This fascination continues to this day. While I cannot state for certain the first film I ever watched (My parents seem to think it was either Disney’s animated princess flick Mulan or The Phantom Menace, the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy), I can most definitely remember the first film that left a lasting impression on my youthful mind, in addition to inspiring me until this day.

“I’m going to make a name for myself. If I fail, you will never hear of me again” Edward James Muggeridge. True to his words he succeeded in making a name for himself and he created the first movie or “motion picture”. Movies are a rollercoaster ride that transcends people into a whole different world fresh out of somebody’s imagination as seen through the genres of horror, drama, and science fiction. The movie business allows people to break through the burden of everyday life. Considering today’s way of life, people would be lying if they did not admit that movies are an influential entity in our culture. Movies have been successful in ingraining values and elements into society. Movies exaggerate, sensationalize and at

The film history of Hollywood is an extremely intriguing and intense. The film industry flourished in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. It is fascinating how short films displayed in nickelodeons soon developed into feature films shown in luxurious movie palaces across the country. Technology was improving at a fast rate and later on new film techniques such as artificial lighting, fire effects and enhanced movie sets were introduced. Films, and Hollywood

After I moved to Australia at the hindsight of this year, I happened to make an argument to myself in regard to the state of the Australia Film Industry. However, over the course of the year, being established here with my studies, analyzing the employment market and meeting professionals from the industry, it is conclusive that the Australian Film Industry is indeed facing a severe crisis from the past two decades.

Movies of all genres and decades have influenced peoples lives without them even realizing it. I watched Perks of Being a Wallflower right before my freshman year not knowing I was going to relate to it so much. This movie has helped me get through each year in high school. Even if I am reflecting back on my freshman year, saying goodbye to the graduating classes, or now being there for my younger

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 accusation of eight largest Hollywood companies _ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros., Columbia, United Artists, Paramount, Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO and Universal_ did not directly hurt movie attendance, but it did have a profound effect on film industry profitibility and stability. The studios acussed of of monopolizing film distribution and exhibition through ownership of first-run theaters and of participating in a variety of collusive practices. For the five majors, the government required the divorcement of production and distribution from exhibition. By cutting the link between production and exhibition, the consent decrees made film production a much less stable undertaking. Every film became a risk, for both producer and exhibitor while in the past the risk had been cushioned by the activities of a large company . The idea was that a breakup of the studios would end the control of exhibition and lead to greater competition throughout the film industry. The government efforts didi not end a set of monopolistic practices.

The Hollywood studio system was based on the industrial models developed by Henry Ford of the Ford Motor company. This process streamlined the production of the movies, similar to a production line in a factory. As I mentioned in my week 2 DB post, “The motion picture industry was just that, an industry in need of harnessing its work force for profitability”. The process relayed on every member of the production team and became the standardized system of the five major studios during that time period. The studio system allowed the top five studios to almost specialize in their particular genre of film production. It was cost effective to continuously make the same style of movie, from writing similar style scripts, production of similar stage

The children wisdom assaulted the almost sixty-year old waste production of the film business with the appellation: "Daddy 's Cinema." Representatives of the last thus could think of no preferred counter over "Kiddy 's Silver screen." This feline, as at the end of the day the adage goes among kids, does not duplicate. How unfortunate to set experience against youthfulness when the issue is the exceptionally youthfulness of that experience gained amid the immaturity of the medium. What is terrible about Daddy 's Cinema is its juvenile character, relapse produced on a modern scale. The fallacy of the protectors demands the very kind of

The American film industry is one of the most far reaching and influential businesses in today’s world. Movies constantly spawn franchises which have die-hard fans lined up for hours just to get a ticket for a movie that is months away. The celebrities in our movies are elevated to a position of super-fame. It is the nature to a human to adapt to conditions over a given period of time. Adaptation continues through into our entertainment as well. Audiences are becoming accustomed to seeing the same things on the screen over and over again. Filmmakers are constantly trying to keep audiences entertained, which is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Today’s general film-going audience quickly becomes bored and seeks more stimulation from the movies.

     The film industry would have never taken the direction it did without the incorporation of certain worker management techniques and capitalist vertical integration pioneered by the founders of Hollywood. The methods of operation that Hollywood established in the realms of production, manufacturing, exhibition and distribution of film has shaped the face of the industry to how we recognize it today.

So you’ve finally decided to follow your heart and are ready to take the movie industry by the scruff of the neck. You’ve saved up on some cash and have that burning desire urging you on and fueling your being. However, just as you take that first step, a harsh reality dawns; you haven’t got a clue on where to start in terms of film equipment. So what does your average filmmaker need for proper shooting? Well, let's find out; here’s a look at the essential equipment for filmmaking: