Intro to Film

Movie and the Society

The pleasure of watching movies is considered vital in our society today . It gives us a temporary escape from reality and allows us to indulge in a world of thrills and chills within the persona of each character in the film that we watch . We also find ourselves contemplating on the identities of characters and somehow see a part of our life in theirs

Typical reaction of movie goers are good , boring , exciting and O .K ' People 's judgment is based on their feelings and how the

film made them feel that way . Are they triggered with fear during the movie ? Did they end up crying ? Did they feel good at the end of the movie and leave the theater with a smile on their faces ? This approach in analyzing a movie is not really bad , since feelings and sensual pleasures are part of humanistic approach and initial reaction . An audience tends to react based how they exactly feel right after they 've seen a film : how they indulge in fantasy on magical movies , how they drop off their seats during suspense and horror films , and how they feel the triumph of heroes and heroic figures on suspense and action films

Movies give us a two- to three-hour experience that we often lack in our daily lives . They also give us ideas and make us try to imagine what kind of life are we going to experience if we are in the shoes of the characters that we have watched

Movie Construction

Movies are not only judged according to our feelings and emotions but also with ideas and assumptions . The plots and story give us a better vision and meaning of our own lives . Most people are not good evaluating , examining , and analyzing movies . Most people don 't bother to think much because they are after the experience of feeling different emotions or they just love the actors and actresses of the film

As a student who is in line with film studies , I think various bases should be used in analyzing movies . With this learning , we don 't only enjoy the film that we are watching but be more keen observers on the different aspects of movies that filmmakers tend to hide from us how the film is made and what values are promoted (Kolker , 1999 ,

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We often forget that films are not only artificial construction where people on screen are only projections from television and made out of cameras and videos . We should bear in mind that these films are results of thousand hours of writing scripts , directing , acting , shooting editing , cutting , and splicing . Most filmmakers tries their best and makes them forget that its just a story by making sure that there is no equipments like cameras or microphones seen as a part of the filming context . They also work very hard to keep us from noticing how the film is pieced together from the footage taken in many different places...