The document discusses the evolution and significance of film and cinema as a modern art form, highlighting its technological advancements and collaborative nature. It outlines the roles of various contributors in filmmaking, including directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, and production designers. Additionally, it includes an activity prompting students to analyze a Filipino film and its artistic elements.
The document discusses the evolution and significance of film and cinema as a modern art form, highlighting its technological advancements and collaborative nature. It outlines the roles of various contributors in filmmaking, including directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, and production designers. Additionally, it includes an activity prompting students to analyze a Filipino film and its artistic elements.
The document discusses the evolution and significance of film and cinema as a modern art form, highlighting its technological advancements and collaborative nature. It outlines the roles of various contributors in filmmaking, including directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, and production designers. Additionally, it includes an activity prompting students to analyze a Filipino film and its artistic elements.
The document discusses the evolution and significance of film and cinema as a modern art form, highlighting its technological advancements and collaborative nature. It outlines the roles of various contributors in filmmaking, including directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, and production designers. Additionally, it includes an activity prompting students to analyze a Filipino film and its artistic elements.
Another form which has risen to tremendous height within the last century. As its early name “motion pictures” declared, film brought yet another dimension into play that of moving images. The possibilities of this medium created a new art form that was to become a powerful social and economic force and a legacy of the 20th century to the world.
Cinema just as all modern arts has been generally influenced by technology. It is an art form that came into being because of the technological advances. The transition from still photography came in the late 1800s with “series photography” and the invention of celluloid strip film. This allowed successive photos of a moving subject captured on a strip of film advancing through a single camera. This was the seed of the highly advances film medium we enjoy today.
European and American inventors were providing one technological advancement after another. The French developed the cinematographe, a hand-cranked camera, printer, and projector all in one that was lightweight enough to bring outside the studio. By 1901, the earliest motion pictures were rapidly progressing from one-scene, studio films to multiple-scene narratives filmed outdoors. Driven by these and many more advances, the art aspect of filmmaking was born
THE COLLABORATIVE ART OF FILMMAKING
Because of its technical complexity, it involves entire team of artists, writers, and production experts, supported by technicians taking charge of the cameras, lighting equipment, sets, props, costumes, and the like – all under the supervision of a film director.
1. FILM DIRECTING – it is the director, like the painter and sculptor in traditional art who envisions the final effect of the on its viewers, visually, mentally, and emotionally. He works with ideas, images, sounds, and other effects to create this unique piece of art. He conceptualizes the scenes, directs the acting, supervises the cinematography and finally the editing and sound dubbing in much the same was as a visual artist composes an artwork.
2. ACTING – With the live theater as the only form of acting at that time, film actors had to learn to express themselves without the exaggerated facial expressions and gestures used on stage. With the addition of sound in the 1930s, they had to learn to deliver their lines naturally and believably.
3. CINEMATOGRAPHY – behind the scene, there was cinematography or the art film camera work. This captured the director’s vision of each scene through camera placement and movement, lighting, and other techniques.
4. EDITING – the art of selecting the precise sections of film, then sequencing and joining them to achieve the director’s desired visual and emotional effect. Sound editing was also developed as films began to include more ambitious effects beyond the dialogue and background music. 5. PRODUCTION/SET DESIGN – underlying all these was the art of production and set design. This recreated in physical terms through location, scenery, sets, lighting, costumes, and props. The mental image should look what period it should depict and what atmosphere it should convey.
ACTIVITY 2: “SAY WHAT’S IN THE FILM”
1. View or give a popular Filipino film and identify the following:
a. title b. director c. lead characters and the actors who played them d. specific scenes or techniques that show the art of filmmaking
2. Identify one particular scene in the movie that you like the most. Discuss why you liked the particular scene.
