MEDIA

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: AESTHETICS OF FILM AND TV

• Film is also called as Motion picture, Theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still
images that when shown on a screen create an illusion of motion images.
• Movie -a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a
theater or on television; a motion picture.
-the content of a certain movie
• Cinema - the production of movies as an art or industry and the art or technique of
making motion pictures.

Length of Film:
1.Short Film is a film with a total running time of less than one hour.

2. Full- length Film - it exceeds one hour and lasts up to two or three hours (sometimes even longer).

Modes of film production:

1.Preproduction – where all the planning stages of a film are made before actually making the film. This
involves developing the concept of the film until it becomes a full-blown film script or screenplay.

 It also concerns where the actual money will be discussed and budgeted in order to make the
film.

 Casting

 Production Team

2. Production- it concerns the actual shooting of the film and is also called the “principal photography
phase”

 Actors and crew members will arrive at their scheduled shooting days to perform their duties on
or off the screen.

 Typically, a mainstream commercial film will be shot in less than 30 days.

3. Postproduction- this is where everything will be put together: the images shot will be edited
together; the music will be composed, recorded and laid out with the edited images.

 The special effects or other graphics requirements will be put in the film.

 Usually, a typical mainstream commercial film is edited for less than 25 days.

 Obviously, filmmaking is a team effort. Many kinds of departments and people are involved in
making one film. They all to harmoniously work together in order to finish the film.

KINDS OF TV SHOWS:
1.Informative Programming

2.Entertainment Programming

Film formats:

1. Narrative

• Narrative film is familiar in nature, meaning the characters and situations were made up by the
film’s scriptwriter.

• Even if they are fictional, though, these characters and situations are familiar to people because
they could happen in real life.

• For example; love stories are universal in their appeal because falling in love is a familiar story
for many people.

• This is why we see many recurring elements and storylines in narrative cinema.

2. Documentary

• It presents the non-fictional or factual characters and situations in the film.

• It also has a story to present, its difference lies mainly in the way it presents facts and shows real
lives of people as story unfolds.

• Usually, a documentary film is made to present a specific issue or societal concern to its viewers.

3. Animation

• It usually encompasses the frame-by-frame shooting and projection of fictional films using
puppets, clay figures, drawing or sketches, shadows and now computer-generated images or
characters.

• The moving image shot at a fraction of a second appears as animated when projected in rapid
succession.

4. Experimental

• It tries to play around with physicality of the film form, the shooting styles, the production
process and the concept. Some experimental films are highly symbolic or philosophical. It is
similar to seeing an abstract or expressionist painting wherein the meanings associated with the
images are open to interpretation.

• It usually uses familiar images but they could play around with their meaning and context.