One of the most used tools nationwide to give someone a jaw-dropping perspective of a concept and completely blow them away with a concrete story including characters, settings, and all the fundamentals needed to portray an idea, is film. Film can take someone's imagination and put it on display for everyone to enjoy and ponder about. Film can dig into your emotions and at the same time, leave you hysterical with joy and triumph. Film can inspire and convince someone there is so much more to a small concept than they thought and it can open someone's mind up to possibilities that they may never have imagined. Film is an escape. It can take someone away from there griefs or pains and put them in someone else's shoes. Film can take you places you have never been before, have always dreamt of going, or even places you can't actually go but you can imagine and feel what it is like to be there. And it is all possible through brilliant minds and an abundance of well-developed technology.
History
Picture
Film has always caught the eyes of Americans from the first "flick" to the present "films". The technology of film has taken a giant leap since the early "motion picture" scenes shown on phenakistoscopes and kinetographs(1). Motion Picture was a technology that swept the nation and changed the media forever. The fact that that someone could view a moving and entertaining image was extremely exciting for laborers of the cruel world of business, mothers slaving away at home, and children needing activities to pa
image Result for Kinetograph
rticipate in when they weren't in school. Once the kinetograph became more and more advanced, more shows were created and millions of movies began to be filmed that would make endless amounts of cash. As this technology developed, we then became introduced to Philo T. Farnsworth, a young scientist from Utah who invented a square machine called a Television(3). When the Television was created, like the Model T, every citizen had to own one. Black and white films bloomed into color TV which then transformed into Televisions with high definition screens.
Cameras
Image Result for RED One
On the flip side, the cameras that completed the magic of film have slowly become a work of beauty and a display of wonder among movie-lovers. From the kinetograph invented by Thomas Edison, to the cinematographe invented by the Lumiere brothers, to an all-metal movie camera invented by Bell and Howell, movies were made easier with a better picture as the years went by and the technology of film had become an interest to inventive entrepreneurs. From this point, came the Kodachrome from Kodak, then the Cinerama, the Super 8 by Kodak, and finally, the RED One, which is a digital camera that shares many attributes with the high-tech digital cameras we use today(2).
On the Screen
Visual Effects
Visual effects are a very complex form of art. They use computer technology to alter normal scenes shot with a camera to look entirely different and depict a usually, unrealistic event. The oldest form of visual effects are matte paintings, which are detailed paintings in the background of scenes, and stop motion. More recent vis
Image result for visual effects
ual effects seen in movies are all used through special computer programs that can add animation to man-made scenes. Visual Effects include anything from a man being a shot multiple times in a chest, to a dog riding a bicycle. Visual effects allow a director access to an endless amount of ideas and fictional stories or events that can be put on the screen. They give the audience a sense of wonder and excitement, seeing something that they never thought was real, appear to be real and happening right in front of their eyes. These effects can cause a group of people to feel negative or positive emotion towards a concept and be enlightened by this new perspective in their own way.(4)
Sound Effects
Music and sound affect us psychologically and can influence impressions we have about things we see or feel. Horror films are scary for many different reasons, but music and sounds play a key role in scaring someone's socks off. Loud noises and frightening screeching or devilish laughter make us feel uncomfortable and at times, can even make us jump out of our seats if the noises surprise us. Same goes with romantic films or dramas, the music and sounds we hear cause us to react by feeling love or compassion for a character or group of characters. Sound effects can also provide scenes with a mood that the director intends on giving so that he can keep you on the edge of your seat.(5)
Films that Display Evidence of Technological Innovation and Mind-Bending Concepts- Minority Report, Schindler's List, Full-Metal Jacket, The Pursuit of Happiness, Birth of a Nation, A Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, I Robot, The Godfather, The Davinci Code, Ex-Machina, Inception, Interstellar, Inland Empire, Shutter Island, The Matrix, Saw, Avatar, Gravity, Iron Man, Total Recall, Elysium, Prometheus, Wall-E
Ethics
Film can and has been used for ethical and unethical purposes. Many movies are used to create moral dilemmas. By doing this the film maker is hoping to provoke within the viewer, certain thoughts and feelings. Some of these thought provoking movies were previously mentioned such as: Minority Report and The Matrix, others include 1984, American History X, Fight Club, and the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (to name but a few). There are an extensive amount of varieties of movies. Because movies are viewed for different reasons at different times by all people, there are movies to feed just about any view-able desire a person may have. The range is seemingly endless from one extreme such as religious movies, to the other extreme, such as pornography, and then everything in between. This begs the question is the movie ethical or unethical? The creator/producer of a movie ethical or unethical? The viewer of a movie ethical or unethical? Where does the responsibility lie and does it even matter? What impact does a film have on the viewer . . . who is responsible? The filmmaker, the producing/hosting medium, the viewer . . ? The obvious answer is that we all are responsible. The ethical dilemma is truly then for what reasons is it acceptable to make, produce, and/or view a movie? .
The purpose of a movie is as endless as the genre. Michael Moore is an example of a famous filmmaker that criticizes government, large corporations, etc. Time has named him as one of the world's most influential people.
Technological Ethics in Movies
One of the most used tools nationwide to give someone a jaw-dropping perspective of a concept and completely blow them away with a concrete story including characters, settings, and all the fundamentals needed to portray an idea, is film. Film can take someone's imagination and put it on display for everyone to enjoy and ponder about. Film can dig into your emotions and at the same time, leave you hysterical with joy and triumph. Film can inspire and convince someone there is so much more to a small concept than they thought and it can open someone's mind up to possibilities that they may never have imagined. Film is an escape. It can take someone away from there griefs or pains and put them in someone else's shoes. Film can take you places you have never been before, have always dreamt of going, or even places you can't actually go but you can imagine and feel what it is like to be there. And it is all possible through brilliant minds and an abundance of well-developed technology.
History
Picture
Film has always caught the eyes of Americans from the first "flick" to the present "films". The technology of film has taken a giant leap since the early "motion picture" scenes shown on phenakistoscopes and kinetographs(1). Motion Picture was a technology that swept the nation and changed the media forever. The fact that that someone could view a moving and entertaining image was extremely exciting for laborers of the cruel world of business, mothers slaving away at home, and children needing activities to pa
Cameras
On the flip side, the cameras that completed the magic of film have slowly become a work of beauty and a display of wonder among movie-lovers. From the kinetograph invented by Thomas Edison, to the cinematographe invented by the Lumiere brothers, to an all-metal movie camera invented by Bell and Howell, movies were made easier with a better picture as the years went by and the technology of film had become an interest to inventive entrepreneurs. From this point, came the Kodachrome from Kodak, then the Cinerama, the Super 8 by Kodak, and finally, the RED One, which is a digital camera that shares many attributes with the high-tech digital cameras we use today(2).
On the Screen
Visual Effects
Visual effects are a very complex form of art. They use computer technology to alter normal scenes shot with a camera to look entirely different and depict a usually, unrealistic event. The oldest form of visual effects are matte paintings, which are detailed paintings in the background of scenes, and stop motion. More recent vis
Sound Effects
Music and sound affect us psychologically and can influence impressions we have about things we see or feel. Horror films are scary for many different reasons, but music and sounds play a key role in scaring someone's socks off. Loud noises and frightening screeching or devilish laughter make us feel uncomfortable and at times, can even make us jump out of our seats if the noises surprise us. Same goes with romantic films or dramas, the music and sounds we hear cause us to react by feeling love or compassion for a character or group of characters. Sound effects can also provide scenes with a mood that the director intends on giving so that he can keep you on the edge of your seat.(5)
Films that Display Evidence of Technological Innovation and Mind-Bending Concepts- Minority Report, Schindler's List, Full-Metal Jacket, The Pursuit of Happiness, Birth of a Nation, A Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, I Robot, The Godfather, The Davinci Code, Ex-Machina, Inception, Interstellar, Inland Empire, Shutter Island, The Matrix, Saw, Avatar, Gravity, Iron Man, Total Recall, Elysium, Prometheus, Wall-E
Ethics
Film can and has been used for ethical and unethical purposes. Many movies are used to create moral dilemmas. By doing this the film maker is hoping to provoke within the viewer, certain thoughts and feelings. Some of these thought provoking movies were previously mentioned such as: Minority Report and The Matrix, others include 1984, American History X, Fight Club, and the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (to name but a few). There are an extensive amount of varieties of movies. Because movies are viewed for different reasons at different times by all people, there are movies to feed just about any view-able desire a person may have. The range is seemingly endless from one extreme such as religious movies, to the other extreme, such as pornography, and then everything in between. This begs the question is the movie ethical or unethical? The creator/producer of a movie ethical or unethical? The viewer of a movie ethical or unethical? Where does the responsibility lie and does it even matter? What impact does a film have on the viewer . . . who is responsible? The filmmaker, the producing/hosting medium, the viewer . . ? The obvious answer is that we all are responsible. The ethical dilemma is truly then for what reasons is it acceptable to make, produce, and/or view a movie? .
The purpose of a movie is as endless as the genre. Michael Moore is an example of a famous filmmaker that criticizes government, large corporations, etc. Time has named him as one of the world's most influential people.
Resources
1."history of the motion picture". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 02 Oct. 2016
2.Green, Amanda, and Eric Vespe. "A Brief History of the Movie Camera." Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications Inc., 10 June 2015. Web. 02 Oct. 2016.
3. http://www.biography.com/people/philo-t-farnsworth-40273
4.http://effectscorner.blogspot.com/2012/07/value-of-visual-effects.html
5.http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/sound-effects-functions.html