GNED01:ART APPRECIATION

VISUAL ART
JOHN ACE COSIO HINGADA
INSTRUCTOR 1
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY-CCC
OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Define what is motion picture;
2. Understand the characteristics of motion picture;
3. Appreciate the role of motion picture in art industry;
and
4. Create a simple documentary film.
 VISUAL
ART
art forms that
create works that
are primarily visual
in nature
Motion Picture
Motion picture, also called film
or movie, series of still
photographs on film, projected in
rapid succession onto a screen
by means of light.
Motion Picture
Because of the optical
phenomenon known as
persistence of vision, this
gives the illusion of actual,
smooth, and continuous
movement.
Motion Picture
The art of motion pictures is
exceedingly complex, requiring
contributions from nearly all
the other arts as well as
countless technical skills.
Essential Characteristics
Of Motion Pictures
In its short history, the art of
motion pictures has frequently
undergone changes that
seemed fundamental, such as
those resulting from the
introduction of sound.
Essential Characteristics
Of Motion Pictures
➢ Qualities of the film image
➢ Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
➢ Particularity
➢ Neutrality
Qualities of the film image
The primary unit of expression in film is
the image, or the single shot.
 Qualities of the film image
This association is well documented among many
primitive peoples, and it is even reflected in the term
magic lantern as a synonym for the film projector.
 Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
The intensity of a film derives from its power to
hold the complete attention of the spectator on
whatever bit of reality is being shown.
 Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
In the cinema one is compelled to look at something
that not the viewer but the filmmaker has selected, for
reasons that are not always immediately apparent.
 Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
This quality of intensity becomes most noticeable when
the camera remains fixed on something for a longer
time than seems warranted
 Particularity
A film image may be less ambiguous than the language
of words but also less evocative, less likely to be
enriched by imagination, association, or recollection.
 Particularity
It does not in itself tell what it means, and people
instinctively search for meanings in images.
 Neutrality
The world people see around them is strongly
influenced by their emotions and their interests.
 Neutrality
When a film appears to be charged with
emotion, it is usually because the director has
carefully manipulated the images to give this
 Neutrality
In everyday life, the eyes follow the mind; in the
cinema, the mind follows the eyes.
Essential Characteristics
Of Motion Pictures
➢ Qualities of the film image
➢ Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
➢ Particularity
➢ Neutrality
Characteristics of
the medium
Characteristics may be stressed
as factors that differentiate the
motion-picture medium, either in
degree or in kind, from other
mediums for works of art.
Characteristics
of the medium
➢ Luminosity
➢ Movement
➢ Realism
➢ Montage
 Luminosity
The intense brightness of the picture projected
by powerful light onto a coated screen in itself
transforms the most mundane element of reality.
 Luminosity
The luminosity of the motion-picture image also
results in a considerable range of tone, between
the brightest highlight and the deepest black.
 Movement
Both in filmmaking and in film appreciation, movement
must constantly be borne in mind: composition in the
motion picture is kinetic rather than static.
 Movement
The composition within any frame, or exposure, of a
motion picture is as important as the relationship of
that frame to those that precede and follow it.
 Realism
The feeling of realism deriving from motion-
picture photography accounts for much of
the force of motion pictures
 Realism
Cinematic realism is most fully heightened when the
images are accompanied by synchronous sound, whereby
a second sense, hearing, ratifies what the eyes see.
 Montage
The most essential characteristic of the motion picture
is montage, from the French monter, “to assemble.”
 Montage
Montage refers to the editing of the film, the cutting
and piecing together of exposed film in a manner that
best conveys the intent of the work.
 Montage
The order in which the segments of film are
presented can have drastically different dramatic
effects.
SUMMARY

Essential Characteristics Of Motion Pictures

➢ Qualities of the film image
➢ Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
➢ Particularity
➢ Neutrality
Characteristics of the medium
➢ Luminosity
➢ Movement
➢ Realism
➢ Montage