Wednesday 28 March 2007

Definition of film
Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important
art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful method for educating-or indoctrinating citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication; some movies have become popular worldwide attractions, by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.
Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between
frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision — whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Viewers perceive motion due to a psychological effect called beta movement.
The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact that
photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photoplay, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.
Googlezon
Googlezon is the name of a fictional future company created when Google merges with Amazon in the popular utopian flash movie EPIC 2014, released in November 2004. As the story goes, Google, having consolidated all of its services into the Google Grid – a "universal platform that provides a functionally limitless amount of storage space and bandwidth to store and share media of all kinds" – and Amazon.com, with its "social recommendation engine" and "huge commercial infrastructure" combine forces to battle with Microsoft and its fictional Newsbotster in the "News Wars of 2010" which are "notable for the fact that no actual news organizations take part". Googlezon triumphs and unleashes EPIC (Evolving Personalized Information Construct), a universal, personalized news submission and distribution system that is so popular it effectively puts the fourth estate out of business.
According to the film's creators, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, Googlezon was the initial concept that led to the creation of
EPIC 2014 in the spring of 2004.[1] It may have been partly inspired by A9.com, a search engine launched by Amazon.com in April of that year that uses Google's search technology.[2] However, A9 is now powered by Windows Live.com search.
Technology
My chosen technology are DVDs'
DVD's are marketed by advertisements using TV channels, and also posters in public places and in shops that retail the product.
DVD's are produced by the same company but are sold to publishing companies who transform them for the specific film. They can vary in cost from £5 to £20 on an average DVD.
It is a hot media. It is a pull technology as it encourages the customers to buy it.
It is a reasonable new media but it is also going under transformation from new technologies such as HD and Blueray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueray.
The people that are responsable for developing it are th companies that are making them, because someone else could invent a new better product and they would be screwed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd

Friday 23 March 2007

I am going to do film. There are 5 main areas.

Convergence: As we are living in a digital era, movies can now be downloaded as digital packages, which can be played off different hardware such as mobiles and mp4 players.