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History of Film
Here are the answers to the activity questions: - The Jazz Singer was the movie that developed the change from silent films to sound films. - The first line of dialogue in film history was "Wait a minute: you haven’t heard anything." uttered by the protagonist, Al Jolson, looking at the camera in The Jazz Singer. - Light is the essential element in the Black and White films. - Before actual methods, frames were painted frame by frame or films were turned into monochrome tones through a dye bath. - Digital Cinematography is the process of capturing motion picture images digitally rather than on film, such as to video, hard disks, flash memory or other media that
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Overview of film history, from its origin as a curiosity to a mass spectacle of contemporary art.
Discussion on silent films, their characteristics, including the first silent movie from 1888.
Introduction of synchronized sound in films, highlighting 'The Jazz Singer' as the first talkie.
Characteristics of black and white films, emphasizing lighting and visual contrasts from 1895.
Development of color films from early painted frames to Charles Taze's 1912 color film integration.
Explains digital cinematography, including resolution discussions and changes in film recording methods.
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History of Film
- 1. History Of Film Jessica Gray María José Jaramillo Gabriela Madrid-Malo Jessica Maldonado Daniela Mayorga
- 2. INTRODUCTION Initially, the filmwas little more than a curiosity of the fair, an invention that allowed the reality show in motion. Over the years, established itself as a mass spectacle, which attracts thousands of spectators rooms of any nationality, and as a feature of contemporary world art.
- 3. THE SILENT FILM The silent film is one film that has no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue was referred and consisted of images
- 5. After the premiereof the movie The Jazz Singer, the talkies were becoming more common and ten years later, the silent movie had practically disappeared. The silent era is often referred to as "The Age of the Silver Screen"
- 6. The first silentmovie was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It was a three- second film showing two people walking around the Roundhay garden, was titled The Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 7. THE SOUND FILM Itis one in which the movie has synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image.
- 8. In the firstyears after the introduction of sound, films incorporating synchronized dialogue were known as "talkies.“ The film is considered the first talkie of history is "The Jazz Singer," released on October 6, 1927 and directed by Alan Crosland.
- 9. Despite this consideration,it was not completely sound tape. It contained some songs and some spoken fragments, one of them, the protagonist, Al Jolson, looking at the camera and uttered the first line of dialogue in film history: "Wait a minute: you haven’t heard anything.''
- 10. BLACK & WHITEFILMS The Black and White films are from the beginning of film history, since 1895, the Lumiere brothers publicly projected output of a French factory workers in Lyon, the demolition of a wall, the arrival of a train and a boat from the port.
- 11. Light is theessential element in the Black and White films. The filmmakers of black and white film, however, came to acquire a picture- perfect very high levels of contrast between light and shadows and amazing professionalism in the use of lighting.
- 14. COLOR FILMS Color filmshave existed since the very beginning of cinema, thanks to the traditional method of painting frame by frame, or turn the film into monochrome tones through a dye bath. Following Newton's experiences in the s. XVII and theories of color vision set by Young and Helmholtz in the nineteenth.
- 15. Some tapes ofEdison and Lumiere were stained as postcards and portraits.
- 16. By 1900, Parisianworkers skilled and underpaid brush colored with thousands of images that made the first films of fantasy.
- 17. Charles Taze understoodthe potential of the film to motivate people, so in 1912, began preparing the "Photo-Drama of Creation", a film and slides, color and sound, eight hours of duration. Many of these illustrations were based on the engravings of the famous artist Gustav Doré.
- 18. Digital cinematography is the processof capturing motion picture as digital images, rather than on film. Digital capture may occur on video , hard disks, flash memory, or other ACTUAL media which can FILMS record digital data.
- 19. • Substantive debateover the subject of film resolution versus digital image resolution is clouded by the fact that it is difficult to meaningfully and objectively determine the resolution of either.
- 20. However, the vastmajority of all blockbuster movies of the first decade of the 21st century have been finished in 2K, which can easily be surpassed by mechanical as well as digital camera systems.
- 21. • Films aretraditionally shot with dual-system recording, where picture is recorded on camera, and sync sound is recorded to a separate sound recording device. Picture and sound are then synced up in post- production.
- 22. ACTIVITY • What wasthe name of the movie that develop the change from silent films to sound films? • How was the first line of dialogue in film history? • What is the essential element in the Black and White films? • Before the actual methodes, how were the frames painted? • What does Digital Cinematography means?