Evolution of Filmmaking

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The Evolution of the Film and Video Industry

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A short presentation of the history of filmmaking.

Transcript of Evolution of Filmmaking

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The Evolution of the Film and Video Industry

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INTRODUCTION The development of motion picture complexity has been driven

by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex stories. In concert with societal attitudes and proximity, this evolution has driven the development of distinct styles, movements, and methods that would have been impossible without increasingly advanced apparatus.

However, while this technological progression has been linear, it has not necessarily coincided with a similar evolution of quality; the skill of a filmmaker should not be judged by the technological complexity of the production, but by the ability of the filmmaker to wield the technology of the time and of his or her choosing to effectively and clearly convey a narrative, evoke an emotion, or make an impression.

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If you ever thought that filmmaking is an easy job, you are definitely wrong. You need to invest a lot of time and effort into it and work with great passion to achieve the best you can. However, there a few steps that you can guide by in order to make it big in Hollywood.

Step 1: Writing the Script After coming up with an idea and concept for a story, you must have a script

that adheres to the basic formatting requirements.  A tip is to share your script revisions with people you trust to give you an honest opinion. Be able to take criticism, but also use that to help better your script. Sharing your script in this way can often help you get a fresh perspective and help you get around an obstacle you may have hit.

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Step 2: Selling Your Script Each year Hollywood is inundated with approximately 100,000 un-produced

scripts. The chances of a first time writer being produced is approximately 140,000 to 1. Studios receive and review around 5,000 scripts a year, and of these a whopping 12 are sent on to become real live spectacles for the eyes and ears. Now to become one of those twelve there are a few paths. The first, and best chance for success (which in no means that its a good chance) is to get an agent. So you start sending out inquiries and send you script on to positive replies. An agent is extremely valuable for two reasons. First, they are known (or least better known that you most likely will be) and thus can get access to places you perhaps cannot, and second, they are familiar with the business and can help guide you through what could be an extremely difficult ordeal.

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Step 3: Pre-Production

Pre-production is the phase during which the film is planned. It is not a step that can be skipped, and its careful execution is the first step to ensuring that the film will turn out well. In a word it is planning. Once the script is submitted it is, in almost all cases, out of the writer’s hands. What happens next is different for each script. It may be bought by a studio, be picked up by an agent to be distributed to possible buyers, etc. Enter the producer. The producer will become attached to the film either during the buying stage, where he or she will be the sole investor or will pressure their studio into buying the script, or he or she may be assigned by their studio once the script comes into the general production pool.

The producer will then look over the script and make the changes he or she believes to be necessary to strengthen the story. Often times this comes in the form of having a second writer re-write dialogue, etc. The original writer, unless he is still doing the re-writes due to contractual agreements or is extremely skilled and capable of polishing his or her own script, will have no part in this and will be either surprised or outraged or both at the changes being made to the script. Once the producer gets the script to where he or she feels comfortable with it, a director is chosen. The producers will seek out directors whose talents match the subject matter of the story.

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Step 4: Production Production is the most grueling part of filmmaking. The cast and crew can

frequently spend 12 or more hours on the set, filming only three or four pages of script, often in very uncomfortable locations. This goes on for days, weeks, months with the same schedule day after day, review dailies (the footage shot yesterday), shoot today’s footage, prepare for tomorrow’s filming. For many people though, this is the most exhilarating part of production and this is indeed where “the magic happens.”

Step 5: Post-Production Post-Production involves every step after primary filming, editing and

correction, re-shoots, marketing, etc.

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In the 21st century, contrary to even a few decades ago, it is much easier to share your content with the world, with the help of the technology that many young people cannot live without, specifically the Internet. Social sites such as YouTube, Facebook or Twitter give the beginner filmmakers a chance that our ancestors did not have, a chance to spread their ideas, presented as documentaries, artistic films, even short films with a powerful message that can change your perspective of life and what is surrounding us.

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YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by

three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video content, including video clips, TV clips, and music videos, and amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

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Social impact Both private individuals and large production

companies have used YouTube to grow audiences. Independent content creators have built grassroots followings numbering in the thousands at very little cost or effort, while mass retail and radio promotion proved problematic. Concurrently, old media celebrities moved into the website at the invitation of a YouTube management that witnessed early content creators accruing substantial followings, and perceived audience sizes potentially larger than that attainable by television.

While YouTube's revenue-sharing "Partner Program" made it possible to earn a substantial living as a video producer, its top five hundred partners each earning more than $100,000 annually.

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Describing the Arab Spring, sociologist Philip N. Howard quoted an activist's succinct description that organizing the political unrest involved using "Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.”  In 2012, more than a third of the U.S. Senate introduced a resolution condemning Joseph Kony 16 days after the "Kony 2012" video was posted to YouTube, with resolution co-sponsor Senator Lindsey Graham remarking that the video "will do more to lead to (Kony's) demise than all other action combined.“

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Leading YouTube content creators met at the White House with U.S. President Obama to discuss how government could better connect with the "YouTube generation".

Conversely, YouTube has also allowed government to more easily engage with citizens, the White House's official YouTube channel being the seventh top news organization producer on YouTube in 2012 and in 2013 a healthcare exchange commissioned Obama impersonator Iman Crosson's YouTube music video spoof to encourage young Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)-compliant health insurance. 

In February 2014, U.S. President Obama held a meeting at the White House with leading YouTube content creators to not only promote awareness of Obamacare but more generally to develop ways for government to better connect with the "YouTube Generation". Whereas YouTube's inherent ability to allow presidents to directly connect with average citizens was noted, the YouTube content creators' new media savvy was perceived necessary to better cope with the website's distracting content and fickle audience.

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Some YouTube videos have themselves had a direct effect on world events, such as Innocence of Muslims (2012) which spurred protests and related anti-American violence internationally.

The anti-bullying “It Gets Better Project” expanded from a single YouTube video directed to discouraged or suicidal LGBT teens, that within two months drew video responses from hundreds including U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, White House staff, and several cabinet secretaries. Similarly, in response to fifteen year old Amanda Todd's video "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm", legislative action was undertaken almost immediately after her suicide to study the prevalence of bullying and form a national anti-bullying strategy.

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In conclusion, why is this industry of moving pictures so important nowadays? Well, movies are many things to many people. They inspire, entertain, and give us pause to ponder issues. We laugh, cry, get outraged, and sometimes, we reach a new understanding of the world around us.

As far as I am concerned, this topic needs to be ended in a philosophical way and there is no other better quotation that can illustrate my view over the film industry than “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.