What is cinema

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Lesson 1What is film and Film as an art

Subject:UnderstandingCinema

Faculty Name:Amol Jadhav

Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

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+ What is film ?

An audio- visual imagery that is produced by series of pictures, set in motion, which depicts an idea or theme.

This theme or idea which might be based on real events, opinionated views or fictional take.

Film, brings about an experience, just like other art forms, that has an effect which changes, subverts or adds to our understanding of world.

Imagination and reality

Fantasy and Facts

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+ Inception

The word Cinema is derived as a shortened form of cinematograph (an instrument) or cinematography (an art of visualization through camera that captures moving images)

Early filmmaking owes a lot to photography techniques developed by Louis Daguerre (1787- 1851) and Joseph Niepce (1765- 1833) in France.

Edward Muybridge, an English photographer captured a horse in motion in 1879 which can be marked as one of the earliest attempts of motion pictures in the world.

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+ Cinema is born

World’s first movie was made by Louisand Augustus Lumiere in France and itwas screened at Café La Grande, Paris on 28th December 1892.

Lumiere brothers captured the events which occurred around and projected the reality on screen.

They developed an equipment which was built on the principles of still photography but could capture moving images. It was called Cinematograph.

Arrival of train in a station, a naughty boy with a gardener and workers coming out of a factory are some of the noted works and earlier movies made by Lumiere Bros.

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+ Cinematograph

Cinematograph by Lumiere Brothers was a wooden box

that had a feed in and feed out for

a film and a fixed lens.

It had a built in light bulb that gave an

illumination on lens.

As the grid was moved, the film rolled.

Thus giving us an experience of

Moving image which were shot

and stored on that film and edited in

order to have a definite sequence.

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+ Film as an Art

Classification of ‘Art’

Art vs. Technology

Recording art

Performing art

Fine art

Communicative art

Narration

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“art as one of the ‘keywords’— one that must be understood in order to comprehend the interrelationships between culture and society.”

- Raymond Williams

(Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society)

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Sources:

How to read a film- James Monaco

Oxford History of World Cinema- Ed. Geoffery Nowel- Smith

Raymond Williams