By James Cateridge
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Want to drag again the curtain on movie? This hands-on, pleasant advisor unravels the complexities of movie and is helping you set cinema right into a cultural context. You'll get an easy-to-follow advent to varied movie genres and types, find out about the historical past of cinema, get to understand who makes up a filmmaking staff, discover worldwide cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood and masses more.
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But knowing how to talk about two-dimensional artwork is worthwhile, because many of the visual conventions of film appear even more clearly in the older art forms of painting and drawing. Here are just a few: ✓ Aesthetics: Deals with the concepts of contrast, such as the balance between light and shade, harmony or randomness of composition, and symmetry or asymmetry. Each of these elements can have effects upon the viewer’s vision, as well as suggesting psychological states. Bright, symmetrical images are calming or celebratory, whereas darkness and chaotic compositions are unsettling or disturbing.
Executive producers: Represent the studio’s interests on set, or provide a major source of finance themselves, or are sometimes prestigious ‘consultants’ on the production (often the case with major stars). ✓ Associate producers: Work under the main producer and are responsible for specific elements of the process, such as completing finance or overseeing post-production. ✓ Line producers: Directly responsible for the pre-production or planning phase of a project and attempt to ensure that shooting is completed on time and on budget.
Except that they were doing this work without the support of the university system, which wasn’t ready to accept film as an art form worthy of study until the 1970s. Partly for this reason, film journals are an essential source for film studies research. For film history, they provide vital information and colour, and many of the founding texts of film theory originated on their pages. Since film studies was allowed into the hallowed halls of academia, other important journals have come along, and these publications feature much of the best and most cutting-edge research in the field.