THE DIGITAL AGE

1990- today, like right now

The Internet

• Easier to publicize movies via reviews, trailers, websites

• Illegal downloading -> Movies don't receive $ it deserves
• Advantage for Indie films and filmmakers
• People in the industry making an effort to stop it
• Uses it to their advantage, cheaper, easier distribution and
more customers
YouTube

• Easy to distribute videos

• Trailers are viewed more frequently
• Independent filmmakers are able to promote their videos
for free
3D MOVIES

• Enhance realism of the cinematic experience

• Avoided by some
• Able to make the best out of it
• Not originally filmed in 3D, darker
 

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Celluloid

• Cost more in production and post-production stage

• Richer cinematic effect
• Requires more skill to operates
Digital

• Inexpensive in production and post production

• More efficient
• Produces sharper images
• Reaching an age where its hard to tell the difference
• Canon camera's
CGI

• Objects and backgrounds can be created from scratch

• Iron Man, Transformer
• Almost any idea can be transformed into something
tangible on screen
• Toys Story
 

 
Technology

• Color correcting- Da Vinci

• Job of DOP becomes easier
• Editing software becomes more accessible
• HD Cameras
 

 
Art & Commercial

• Low budget
• Experimentation
• Not cinematic with stereotypical plot
• Only for certain viewers
• Does well at film festivals

• Tries to appeal to most audiences

• Earn as much money as possible
• A lot of promotion
Styles

• Becomes more commercial

• Shots are shorter due to the short attention span of
audience
• Chick Flicks
• Action
• Same genres, different style
Contemporary Shooting Techniques

• Documentary Style
• Ramping
Recurring Themes

• Action movies- "The chosen one"

• Lifestyles of the rich and famous
• Defying the rules of reality
• Remakes of historical events
• Fictional movies based in 1800-1900s or ancient times
Trailers

 
 

 
Movies Early in the D.A.
1990-2000
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Titanic (1997)
 

 
Recent Movies of the D.A.

• No Country For Old Men (2007)

• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

• Avatar (2010)
• Inception (2010)
Notable Directors of the D.A.

• Steven Speilberg
• Christopher Nolan
• Quentin Tarantino
• Martin Scorsese
• Clint Eastwood 
• Justin Cheung
The End