Do you still remember the stories your grandma or mom used
to narrate when you were a child. The very reason of telling a story is to
communicate a specific message or moral. Remember how the person telling a
story expresses the different characters and emotions by acting differently or
changing the facial expressions or tones. We definitely used to enjoy that and
get involved in the story and start picturising ourselves in place of some
character in the story. We start picturising more and more in our mind as we
get involved more into the story. That leads us to
believe more and more in the fiction. The same concept applies to the films or
movies. The people making the film are trying to express or let's say
communicate a specific message to the audience. Of course the medium is rich
and it becomes a bit easier than the grandma's process but the essence remains
the same, to tell a story in the best possible way.
architectural interpretation (di?nh?aki?ntrúc)
So what exactly is a film? Well a film or movie is again a
story told with moving images, hence the term motion picture applies to films.
This is achieved by capturing photographic images with cameras. Most of us
would have used a camera to capture images in our daily life. It's the same
thing. The only difference is in a film the images are captured in sequence.
Like a horse galloping captured in a series of photographs to show the full
movement. This experiment was done by Eadweard Muybridge in
1877, the first ever motion picture.
He used multiple still cameras to capture how a horse
gallops. But It was Edison who invented the first ever film camerato employ
moving images called the Kinetograph. In 1890 the first film strip made was
dubbed "Strongman Sandow" which was just a guy flexing his muscles.
Although before that Edison experimented with two films Monekyshines No. 1
(1890) and Monkeyshines No. 2 (1890). None of the them were meant to be seen by
the public as Edison was just trying to test the cylinder of the Kinetograph.
Phew! that's enough of the history for now:D
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