Technology In Film

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Technology In Film

• Past and Present

Steve Ryan Badua
Scott Belluomini
Erika Brow
Rosanne Witt
Ian Yamashita
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Historical Overviewof Film
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First motion pictures

• 1891- Thomas Edison invented Kinetoscope
• 1895- first motion picture invented by Louis
  Lumiere called the cinematographe.
• 1896 Edison invented the vitascope for commercial
  use.

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Kinetoscope
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Cinematographe
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Vitascope
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The Invention of Sound

• Sound was put into films in the 1920s
• Sound was finally mixed into the film in 1932

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Technicolor

• The first technicolor film was also in 1932 by
  Walt Disney
• Film was called Flowers and Trees

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Conclusion

• With the invention of a portable motion picture
  camera, three color film, and incorporation of
  sound in the 1930s the motion picture industry
  was allowed to create the momentum for future
  invention and innovation in film.

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• HORROR

Past and Present
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Dracula The Past
Nosferatu (1922)

• Plague Carrier modernization of Greek term
• monster-like image (resembling a rat)
• Set design dirt path
• Castle pointy, set on hill death like , crypt
  
• technology (low budget)

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• Dracula The Present

Bram Stokers DRACULA (1992)

• higher budget
• beautiful and sexy
• castle Transylvanian/gothic

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Animation

• Past and Present

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Past

• 2 D drawing used to create animation
• Jumps in movement often occurred
• Employed many artists to produce and reproduce
  the images

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Present

• Computer animation
• Characters that verge on reality
• Heavily based on mathematics and computers
• Computer experts as well as artists work together
  to create images

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Machines of the Past

• Rotoscope-
• Invented by Max Fleischer around 1914
• Frame by frame movement traced
• Used for the movie Snow White and some
  Betty Boop cartoons

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Machines of the Present

• Primarily dominated by the computer now
• - uses programs like Alias Maya

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Conclusion

• Technology has allowed for visual effects in
  movies to be improved
• This technological advancement has made the
  viewing of movies more realistic and enjoyable