The official website of the Association of Moving Image Archivists features a statement made by the Committee for Film Preservation and Public Access before the National Film Preservation Board in 1993. “Preservation without access is pointless,” the quote says. Film is one area where preservation requires presentation after the fact. The mention of certain films being given a new restoration or a new print scan excites cinema lovers and researchers alike, due to the fact that film has not been as meticulously preserved in the past as it is now. Rapidly evolving techniques in how filmmakers shoot films is changing. David Lynch, the director of Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001), begin shooting mostly in digital video, following …show more content…
With streaming services on the rise, this creates a further gap in the types of films that are being preserved and presented to audience. What about films that never made it to DVD, let alone Blu-ray and streaming? Historically, there has been a push in the United States to archive and preserve classic cinema and films backed by major Hollywood studies. A glance at the National Film Registry titles from 1989 to 2013 shows favor to mostly mainstream films. A few examples of mainstream films added to the registry include The Matrix (inducted in 2012), Toy Story (inducted in 2005), and Beauty and the Beast (inducted in 2002). There are a few example of films on the list not in the mainstream as well – notably Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (inducted in 2004) and Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (inducted in 1990). Both of these films would perhaps be known to people outside the mainstream, but the registry’s film list reads more like a typical greatest films of all-time list. The list, available at http://www.loc.gov/film/registry_titles.php, is comprised of titles that were inducted by the Library of Congress and the National Film Preservation Board between the years of 1989 and 2013. According to the registry’s site, the board members select up to 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films each year”. In
Strategically choosing content that people can identify with or that tells a particularly interesting or horrific true story can do just as well as the big Hollywood productions. Independent films are becoming increasingly more popular and often rival mainstream movies at the box office when they are coupled with decent funding and distribution.1 The Indie Film Movement of the 1990’s is still strong and many artists seek to escape from the control of studio production. This means more content is available than ever before and this means more choices for the exhibitor.
The Editors of Britannica state that color film technology did exist as far back as WWI but it so much more expensive and difficult to work with that it did not become popular until
The transition from film to digital cinema drastically changed the way films were made and greatly affected the cinematography of films. Digital versus film has been a widely debated subject in the film industry since the availability of digital cameras at the end of the 20th century. Now in the 21st century, digital dominates the film industry, so why is 35mm film still being used by both amateur and professional filmmakers? For years film was seen as a joke, far more inferior to digital, because of the fact that digital gave a better picture and was more convenient to use. But now, film has developed to the point where the typical audience cannot see the difference between HD digital films and 35mm films. For example, HDTV laser-beam recording on 35mm colour film can now be used to enhance the quality of the image without using digital. So now to answer the question earlier on why 35mm film is still being used today is that it is a preference for some directors. Although the average viewer cannot spot the difference between digital and film, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any differences between them.
Occasionally, people use to go out and rent DVD’s to watch a specific movie from rental stores. Advancement in technology has brought a sufficient change in customer’s behaviors, today DVD rental stores have almost gone. Moreover, by time we saw enormous increase in channels being provided by cable providers, but today even that has been replaced by streaming media devices, thus my time, role of cable providers might also disappear due to the introduction of devices such as Netflix, Apple TV etc. “DVD sales have also been hit. The Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group estimates DVD sales in 2008 fell 8% to $21.6 billion from a year earlier, while DVD rentals were flat.” Charny, Ben. "Viewers Tap Free Web Content." Wall Street Journal, Eastern
Murch talks about digital filmmaking throughout the novel, but in the afterword he explains the consequences of going digital. What surprised me the most about this section is how long digital editing has been around. Everyone describes digital film editing as a new technological innovation; however, it has been around for years. I think what is new is how accessible film software and equipment is for independent filmmakers. You do not necessarily have to enroll in film school, nor to do you need to move to Los Angeles to make movies. Ordinary people can create, produce, and distribute their own
There is a reason for this however; not the least of which is the films enduring timelessness made all the more impressive by its subject matter. Made during the decline of the studio system, the film was an oddity onto itself. A tiny black and white film at a time of Technicolor, a principle cast of character actors at a time of A-list credit cramming, and
Her top five films included: Amélie (2001), The Ring (2002), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), and Les Misérables (2012). Her films, as well as mine, have a lot of variation. Our lists hold more differences than similarities. My list, generally contained films with strong character arcs, while all of the films that my mother likes have suspense. I suspect that she dislikes a normal feel good movie and would rather be terrified by The Ring or sitting on the edge of her seat watching the Good, Bad and Ugly standoff at the end of the film. One quality that we share is that we both chose movies mostly based on content rather than technique. Technique-wise, Legally Blonde is not my favorite film. I picked it because I appreciate the themes and messages it conveys. My mother similarly picked Les Misérables because she loves the story and the meaning behind all of the music. Overall, the AFI, my mother, and my lists are all different because we have different criteria for good films. Although my and my mother’s lists differ greatly, I do not think the generation gap is noticeable. I think our lists are different because we like different qualities in
When new technology is released people rush to purchase the technology and expect new content to be released for their expensive and newly acquired technology. Film makers then have to make films in the new format that the consumers now own. The quote from the essay “Each time we upgrade, the cost and trouble of reformatting winnows our selection: it’s more expensive to put out a Blu-ray than it is to put out a DVD, and more expensive to put out a DVD than it was to put out a VHS tape.” The cost of a DVD and a Blu-ray is easily distinguishable from simply looking at prices at any store that sells movies. The main focus of those who fund the production of films revolves around cost efficiency and revenue. Thus, if a movie launched on a obsolete format it may not be transformed to the current format, because it is to costly to
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 modern film industry was born around the beginning of the twentieth century. On April 23rd 1896 Thomas Edition showed the first publicly-projected motion picture at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City. From there the film industry had an explosive growth rate. In fact,
The Kodachrome came out in 1935 by the Kodak Company. It was being sold by process paid and stopped in 1954. Then the film could be processed anywhere a place processes film. Many photographers used it in media and for lots of years. Since the processing of film was complex it helped digital photography. Kodak stopped making the film in 2009, and stopped processing film in 2010.
In all forms of art there is a natural inclination to explore and experiment within the medium. The resulting methods and formats can be seen as alternatives and additions to existing ones. I do not believe that, in terms of technical decisions, there is a superior style of film making that the industry progresses to on a set path. I agree with Arnheim’s statement that “there is no objection to the complete film as an alternative to the stage” if it exists with the other types of films (Arhheim, 186). In some cases advances in method and technique are used to fix the problems of technological limitations. In other cases these advances provide alternatives. The introduction of color is described by the latter. Color was introduced as an alternative to black and white movies but never completely replaced them and didn’t stop the use of black and white as an effective technique in modern cinema.
The introduction of motion picture drastically changed the world as we know it along with introducing new and advanced ways of making and presenting media to the masses. Before the introduction of motion picture the only way people were able to hear about the news or new products was either by newspaper or word of mouth. Before we had T5i’s or any other new and elaborate camera we had to film with black and white picture with no sound, like the old classic super eight film cameras. The process of editing has changed over the decades from where film was just cut and scenes would be placed right after the other with hard cuts with the raw material, literally they cut the film, to now where most editors use non-linear editing with a computer to add transitions, text, and other video effects to produce the most visually appealing and most understandable when producing a video production. The way the video productions are shown to the public have also adapted throughout its brief existence. When commercials and films first made their appearances in the early twentieth century Directors and Producers had no idea how to use color to catch the audience’s attention by using their sub conscious, they didn’t realize that the length of the production would play a role in rather a person will watch it or not. Nowadays there are entire books on how to grab the audience’s attention.
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"
The cinematographic camera industry emerged in fact more than 100 years ago, it was only until recently that significant digital changes took place, apart from minimal technological improvements. Before the invention of digital cameras the main medium for shooting a movie was on celluloid film in which the quality of the image was very high from the beginning. However these cameras had some inconveniences. The cinematographer would have to set the lighting and frame to the directors vision and make sure that it was right. He could not see immediately if the scene was shot as desired and this caused the workflow to be very complex and time consuming which most producers would see limited. The developing, processing, transferring, editing and conforming the film normally took a day and the director along with the cinematographer would sit