Elise DeVuono
Mr. Ledvina
Challenge English
April 1, 2014
The Process of How Movies are Made:
Then and Now
For over a hundred years, people have watched movies, but not many know of the process that goes into making all of the movies we enjoy. Since the time of the silent films, the process has drastically changed, thanks to more advanced technology. For example, the first films didn’t have sound, were in black and white, and were shorter than they are today. Today, films have sound, are in color, and are much longer.
The first piece of technology that produced a sort of “moving picture” was Thomas Edison- and his assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson-‘s- Kinetoscope. One of the first prototypes for the Kinetoscope was shown to a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs on May 20, 1891. The machine was both a camera and a peep-hole viewer, and the film used was 18mm wide. (History of Edison Motion Pictures: Origins of Motion Pictures--the Kinetoscope) After their invention many more came until it eventually lead to the invention of the Vitascope.
The, Vitascope was invented by Charles Francis Jenkins, Thomas Armat, and with later help from Thomas Edison. Charles Francis Jenkins had already invented a version of Edison’s Kinetoscope, called the Phantoscope. Which they “built off of” to make their next film showing machine, which in September 1895, they showed to the public. The reaction to it must have been good, because shortly after that they broke off the partnership each claiming it was their own idea. After this Jenkins produced another film machine and showed it the public a week after the partnership was off. During this time Armat, was perfecting his version of their product. Upon perfecting his version,...
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...gs, blueprints, sculptures and models later, the people in development have designed an imaginary place and characters to voice the story. (Production Process)
Once all of that is done, they need to find actors and actresses to voice the characters. They usually cast them by giving them a script to read and videotaping them to see how they sound. In this kind of movie it doesn’t matter how good looking the actors is, it’s all about how well they can act; with only their voice. Once they decide who will play each character, they can develop the character on the computer, to sort of match the actor’s personality. (Production Process)
After the casting process they really start to animate the film itself, they use the computer to make a layout of the characters, by using production designs picked from the hundreds of drawings, they made before. (Production Process)
There first invention produced was the Technicolor System 1 Additive Color, which I’m sorry to say flopped massively due to the unfortunate screening of The Gulf Between in 1917 which only a few frames remain of this film today. This was the first public premier of the technology and was disastrous. The film was captured through two separate filters red and green and the light through those two filters was captured on a single reel of film, when processed this negative had red and green information captured on a black and white reel, when this was processed the reel was placed into a projector and then threw red and green filters. To project the image an adjustable prism that had to manually lined up by the projectionist as two separate images formed on the projection screen this did not work as planned as the projectionist failed to line up the images correctly.
Making character animation without any CGI enhancements is an expensive offer, but Chuck insisted on doing it correctly and using the best animators, Maurice Noble, Auril and Richard Thompson, Hall Ashmead and Phil Roman.
Film-making is both an art and an industry. Many people were credited for the invention of motion picture. Some major names associated with motion picture include, Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Lumiere brothers. There were several stages in the making of motion picture.
My grandfather has always talked about how much movies have changed in such a short amount of time. His favorite movie, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, is an example of how editing and special effects have changed drastically since only 1982 and even from the early 1900s. Watching a movie from this year compared to a movie from the 1930s, the viewer would notice many differences ranging from effects, transitions and especially quality. When film started in the late 1800s, there was no digital technology to edit films. There have been many contributors in the film industry that have helped evolve film to its digital age of today. Edwin Porter was the first person in film history to create a narrative film. Lev Kuleshov created a technique gives films certain moods to it and can affect a person’s emotions just by the way images are juxtaposed and edited together. Danny Boyle is an example of a modern day director that developed a set of guidelines that a director should reciprocate while filming. Film editing has revolutionized and developed so much since the early 1900s to now because of important contributors throughout its history that developed new technology and techniques.
A crew includes a screenwriter, whose job it is to provide the written blueprint version of the entire film. This is basically the starting point for any movie. Next there is the producer. There are many types of producers; executive producers, co-producers, assistant producers and line producers. They all do very different things. Some are the producers are responsible for raising the funds for the movie while others are responsible for the production that goes on during the filming of the movie and still other producers are in charge of what physically goes on the set. Then it is time for the director. The director is in charge of the actors. The director works with the actors to visually bring to life what was written on the screenplay (Fortunato, Who Does What on a Film). Now the idea needs to come together. The idea of writing, “what you know” is not always true and writing, “what you come to know” is in fact a more accurate way to write. Other good ways to formulate ideas are to use existing plays, novels, short stories, life stories, new articles, or even past TV shows and film. When using existing work a person needs to make sure that one secures the copyrights before starting write. Securing the copyrights does not mean one is finished yet. Now a person needs...
The Animators used motion capture to get most of their animations captured before they tweaked the final animations. They used real martial artists fighting in suits of armor
Just like most art forms it takes practice to become really good at animating. Computers have helped to make animation a quicker and simpler process then it once was. Now computers have been used in almost every animated film that has come out in the last ten years. Because of this animation quality has improve dramatically to the point that animated characters are serving as major characters in many of the top movies today. This includes characters such as Ja-Ja Banks in Starwars, The many dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park movies, and Gollum in the Lord of the Ring movies.
The Kodak. Earlier designs of the cameras existed before the 1800’s, but that is when the first practical camera was developed. Next came the Kodak camera developed by a man named George Eastman; he marketed and sold this camera in the year 1888. This original version of the Kodak camera used flexible roll film, and was sold for $25. Customers could take
A young cinematographer by the name of Morton Heilig once said “If we're going to step through the window into another world, why not go the whole way?' (Tate,Scott 1996) In 1957 he created the device known as the Sensorama. The device was designed to use all your senses and also projected a form of stereoscopic 3D to the front and the sides of your head. It was patented the "experience theatre", however it failed to work commercially because it was very expensive to make films and the process was t...
The idea for photographing came around in 1814 when Joseph Niépce wanted an image of his son before he left for war. He succeeded in making the first camera in 1827, but the camera needed at least eight hours to produce one picture. Parisian Louis Daguerre invented the next kind of camera in 1839, who worked with Niépce for four years. His camera only needed fifteen to thirty minutes to produce a picture. Both Niécpe’s and Daguerre’s cameras made pictues on metal plates. In the same year Daguerre made his camera, an Englishman by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot made the first camera that photographed pictures on paper. The camera printed a reverse picture onto a negative and chemicals were needed to produce the photo up right. In 1861, color film came along and pictures were produced with color instead of being just black and white. James Clerk Maxwell is credited with coming up with color film, after he took the ...
The demand for the manual animation technique known as “in-betweening,” where an artist draws hundreds of images to produce the idea of motion, takes countless hours and requires the dedication of an artist’s full time. With the aid of computers, images are generated at face paces and movement can be altered with the click of a mouse. Thus, those hired to do such jobs have the opportunity to better the product with far less time and frustration.
Animators are people who create images such as drawings or computer generated things to come to life through graphics. This job is quite suitable for those who have creative artistic skills such as drawing or modeling, in addition to good computer skills in order to communicate with the audience with accurate detail of the images which contribute into the motion pictures. Work done by animators are everywhere; they are commonly found in films, shows, commercials, pop videos, computer games, websites and other sorts of media and entertainment. These works are done by obtaining images of each movement and, done in a certain way, it turns into some sort of amazing piece of the character’s or object’s actions. A standard animator is to be creative and artistic. Many artistic people go into the field of animation. Animation holds many advantages and opportunities. Multimedia artists and animators put their creative work on the Internet. If the images become popular, these artists can gain more recognition, which can lead to future employment or freelance work. With drawing and sculpting skills for stop frame animations, these artist should be patient to concentrate and passionate on what they ...
Animation, like any other creative art, requires a successful animator to be: patient, talented, disciplined, and willing to work hard. Among the term animation are subcategories such as: character and effects. Character animation is the hardest, in that is requires the most skill. The animator must have a critical eye for every detail that goes into the final project. Character animation can also be broken up into its own subcategories such as: 2D, 3D, traditional, stop motion, and motion graphics. However, 2D and 3D are the most commonly pursued. Regardless if the project is generated by hand or by computer, the overall goal of the animator is to entertain. The animator must have both a clear concept of how to entertain the audience, and
Many people don’t think about it so much, but movies (or just film in general) have become such a big part of our lives that we don’t think much of it because it just feels like a usual part of living. But have you ever wondered why this is, and how far back film started? Movies and film have been around for a long time, have developed in big ways throughout time, and has advanced in such a big and new way to this day.
Offering the unique ability to visually and audibly convey a story, films remain a cornerstone in modern society. Combined with a viewer’s desire to escape the everyday parameters of life, and the excitement of enthralling themselves deep into another world, many people enjoy what films stand to offer. With the rising popularity of films across the world, the amount of film makers increases every day. Many technological innovations mark the advancement of film making, but the essential process remains the same. Pre-production accounts for everything taken place before any shooting occurs, followed by the actual production of the film, post-production will then consist of piecing the film together, and finally the film must reach an audience. Each step of this process contributes to the final product, and does so in a unique right. The process of film making will now start chronologically, stemming from the idea of the story, producing that story into a film, editing that footage together, and finally delivering that story to its viewers.