Filmmaking & Movies

A movie is a motion picture art form that includes moving pictures some with and without sound. The movie comprises recorded images of anything including live performances with special movie cameras, by way of animation and special effects through imaging techniques.

Created movies always reflect a nation’s culture and things in that culture that impacts them. Movies are quite entertaining and an important source for teaching and learning. Motion pictures are very powerful motivation media due to its strong visual effects. The worldwide acceptance of movies and films have made them extremely popular especially really well made ones. Many movies and films now viewed and accepted in many foreign countries because of the technology called dubbing, which can add subtitles and translate from one language to another.

The way movies are made defies the imagination, a series of images or frames are projected rapidly in succession, they move so fast that the viewer only sees that the motion is happening, but cannot see the flickering of the frames because of persistence of vision. Viewers can only see motion due to an effect on the brain called the beta movement.

The term Movie originates from photographic movie which was the way that recordings were historically made showing pictures in motion. Current terms used to describe movies are, silver screen, big screen, the movies and cinema.

Movies have been perfected through the discovery of a phenomenon termed persistence of vision, which is, when still pictures are moved at a rapid rate of speed the images on the pictures appear to move. For these pictures to now appear in synch, the images are meticulously designed to achieve this desired result and this is the principle under which Movie animation was developed. The development of still photography made it possible to capture objects in motion directly while it was happening.

The motion picture camera developed in the nineteenth century made it possible to capture component images and store them on a single reel recording tape. This single event led to the development of the movie projector, which would shine a light through the completed movie and then magnifying the moving pictures thus projecting them on a screen for people to view. These early movies were static shots that presented an event unedited.