Ecological problems have drawn attention from all over the world. With the prevalence of global environmental crisis resulted from rapid development of science and technology, political filed has responded to the issue by issuing some policies; social field has responded to the issue by organizing some activities to evoke the public’s environmental consciousness. As the leader of people’s spiritual trend, ecocinema has also reflected and considered environmental crisis, such as global warming and biological diversity. Ecocinema represents the relationship between human beings and the nature from the macroscopic point of view. Films such as the day after tomorrow, FernGully and Avatar use different approaches to reconstruct the ecological consciousness of the public with visual representation of the nature as the subject. Environmental films are full of aesthetic values in the form, scenes as well as the theme and content. However, film practices also damage the environment when they promote environmental protection. Ways of the ecocinema to represent environmental concerns Films concerning environmental crisis and ecological issues have become more and more popular. Some of them focus on the ecological issue of a specific district and some of them represent the issues from the macroscopic point of view. Different representational practices have been used in the environmental films, such as the visualization of the environment and the reflection on the environment based on the real situation and the imagination. The first approach of environmental films is the nature documentary. As an article medium, the nature documentary represents the real nature for the public in a direct way. For example, the blue planet is a nature docum... ... middle of paper ... ...University of Exeter Press, 2000. Print. Jermyn, Diane. “High tech plays lead role at visual effects film.” The Global and Mail. 16 Nov. 2009. Web. 5 Jun. 2014. Koch, Wendy. “James Cameron sees Avatar as cautionary environmental tale.” USA Today. 03 Jan. 2010. Web. 4 Jun. 2014. Orad, Michael. “The Greenhouse Warming Hype of the Movie The Day After Tomorrow.” Acts & Facts. 33.7 (2004). Web.4 Jun. 2014. Rust, Stephen; Monani, Salma; and Cubitt, Sean, Eds. Ecocinema Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print. Starosielski, Nicole. “Movements that are drawn’: A history of environmental animation from The Lorax to FernGully to Avatar.” International Communication Gazette, (February 2011): 145-163. Yin, Da. “Green cinema.” First Financial Daily. 21 Jun. 2008: B01. Print. “Zero Waste Productions: WOZ Productions Case Study.” One World Consulting Ltd. N.d.
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The central theme of Bladerunner is the relationship between humanity and nature. More specifically it has a purpose in showing how science can negatively influence this fragile relationship. Set in Los Angeles of 2019 we see the decadence of western society into an inhumane harsh impersonal, technology-dominated realm. The inhabitants who fight for their daily survival are in desperate want for nature, contact with which is denied to them by the unrestricted scientific progress and the consequent exploitation of the natural world conducted for the sole purpose of profit. Humanity is also losing touch with it’s own nature. The compassion, the empathy, the love and the emotion are all rare or absent. This ailing relationship between humanity and nature is conveyed through the means of scene setting, dialogue, plot, camera techniques and other film features. All these elements of cinematography synthesise to create an effective portrayal of the unifying theme.
figure of the same name. The alteration of the story into the visual medium of cinema is
A lot of Miyazaki 's films involve the interaction between man and nature. Miyazaki takes great value in the protection of the environment and the compassion he shows for it can be seen in several films he has created. One example of this would be his film Ponyo. The story is about a young girl named Ponyo who lives in the ocean with her father, but she wants to be free from the restriction of her father and see what life is like on the surface world. Ponyo escapes from her father and her sisters and leaves to the surface world to explore. Her father is a wizard that is deeply concerned for Ponyo and her sisters because of the imbalance between the sea and the surface world. The humans and their actions have polluted to ocean which has caused
In the film, the characters’ behaviour and actions are designed to deliver environmental messages to the audience. For example, characters turn off lights, computers and equipments when not in use. Characters wear T-shirt with green slogans. By greening plotlines and characters, the film is able to educate the general public on environmental issues.
This information was presented in form of a movie in a campaign dabbed “Make a Movie, Make a Difference”. This information was enlightening as high school students engaged in movie production to addre...
Nordhaus, Ted, and Michael Shellenberger. Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Print.
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. 5th ed. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997.
Computer generated imagery has evolved and spread throughout cinematography and the film world like wildfire. Although computer generated imagery offers countless creative opportunities, the art form of special effects makeup should be practiced and preserved, as just that- an art form. Most people have begun to describe special effects makeup as anachronistic. Considering how long special effects makeup has been around, people are convinced that its existence is coming to an end.
Art has been always seen as a form to express self emotions and ideas; an artist creates an idea and shapes it by culturally known objects and forms to send encrypted message. Through the times both, ideas and materials used, separates art in to different periods and movements. In late 40’s and late 50’s two art and culture movements emerged, one from another. The first one, Lettrism, was under the aspiration to rewrite all human knowledge. From it another movement, Situationism, appeared. It was an anti-art movement which sought for Cultural Revolution. Both of these movements belong to wide and difficulty defined movement of experiment, a movement whose field is endless. Many different people create experimental films because of the variety of reasons. Some wishes to express their viewpoints which are unconventional. But most of them have an enthusiasm for medium itself. They yearn to explore what prospects the medium has and wishes to open new opportunities to create and to explore, as well as to educate. Experimental filmmaker, differently from mainstream filmmakers, wishes to step out from the orthodox notions. The overall appreciation is not the aim that the experimental filmmakers would seek for. Experimenters usually work on the film alone or with a small group, without the big budget. They intend to challenge the traditional ideas. And with intention to do so Lettrism tries to narrow the distance between the poetry and people’s lives, while Situationism tries to transform world into one that would exist in constant state of newness. Both of these avant-garde movements root from similar sources and have similar foundations. Nonetheless, they have different intentions for the art and culture world and these movements...
The film industry has become a large part of part of human culture for over a millennium. Since the development of the motion picture camera in the 1890s, shortly followed by the establishment of production companies, film has vastly gained popularity. While there are many different reasons of the existence of films, one of the main purposes is to convey a message to the viewer. Climate change and the environment is a frequently discussed topic in films. This essay will discuss three common facts and fallacies found in popular movie culture by comparison of peer reviewed journals.
Bordwell, David, and Kristen Thompson. Film Art an Introduction. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2001.
With the advent of television, films start progressing "by leaps and bounds." One kind of cinema is a documentary film. Thanks to the documentary film, which is simple, concise and understandable form, tell us about nature, culture, history and science, and replenished our "body of knowledge." This is the positive role of cinema in which the means of the common man gets a huge amount of information without losing its finding and processing of your precious time. It increases the overall level of culture. The story of “Australia” makes us closer to the problems of Australian native people, and still, it tells us a beautiful story of Australian people which would be erased if it had any other form except film.
Withgott, J., & Brennan, S. (2011). Environment: the science behind the stories (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
The introduction of films began in the early era of 1920s and since then technology in many forms as such Televisions which featured documentary and made films more popular with in audiences, according to commentators it is said that film has become the most global and popular seen and followed form of culture. (Shiel, 2001; Urry & Larsen, 2011). Furthermore in late 1960s cinemas and theaters were popular among people also due to entertainment and transformation of different cultures, it has since then captured a large number of tourists. Today that trend has changed into television viewing, which is hence said it is the major leisure activity among people. In addition to that seeing films...