GEC6:ART APPRECIATION

JOHN ACE COSIO HINGADA

INSTRUCTOR 1
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OFTHE
PHILIPPINES-MANILA
OBJECTIVES

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

1. Define what is visual arts;
2. Understand the characteristics of visual arts;
3. Compare and contrast the types of visual arts;
4. Appreciate the role of visuals; and
5. Create a pleasing visual artwork.
Motion picture, also called film
or movie, series of still
photographs on film, projected
in rapid succession onto a
screen by means of light.
 Because of the optical
phenomenon known as
persistence of vision, this
gives the illusion of actual,
smooth, and continuous
movement.
 The art of motion pictures is
exceedingly complex, requiring
contributions from nearly all
the other arts as well as
countless technical skills.
 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.
Ø Qualities of the film image
Ø Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
Ø Particularity
Ø Neutrality
The primary unit of expression in film is
the image, or the single shot.
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.
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.
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.
This quality of intensity becomes most noticeable when
the camera remains fixed on something for a longer
time than seems warranted
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.
 It does not in itself tell what it means, and people
instinctively search for meanings in images.
The world people see around them is strongly
influenced by their emotions and their interests.
When a film appears to be charged with emotion,
it is usually because the director has carefully
manipulated the images to give this illusion.
In everyday life, the eyes follow the mind; in the
cinema, the mind follows the eyes.
Ø Qualities of the film image
Ø Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
Ø Particularity
Ø Neutrality
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.
Ø Luminosity
Ø Movement
Ø Realism
Ø Montage
The intense brightness of the picture projected by
powerful light onto a coated screen in itself
transforms the most mundane element of reality.
The luminosity of the motion-picture image also
results in a considerable range of tone, between the
brightest highlight and the deepest black.
Both in filmmaking and in film appreciation, movement
must constantly be borne in mind: composition in the
motion picture is kinetic rather than static.
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.
The feeling of realism deriving from motion-
picture photography accounts for much of the
force of motion pictures
Cinematic realism is most fully heightened when the
images are accompanied by synchronous sound, whereby
a second sense, hearing, ratifies what the eyes see.
The most essential characteristic of the motion picture is
montage, from the French monter, “to assemble.”
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.
The order in which the segments of film are presented can
have drastically different dramatic effects.
Ø Luminosity
Ø Movement
Ø Realism
Ø Montage
Ø Qualities of the film image
Ø Intensity, intimacy, ubiquity
Ø Particularity
Ø Neutrality

Ø Luminosity
Ø Movement
Ø Realism
Ø Montage