FILM HISTORY The First Film

Melies

THE FIRST FILM

• The first audience to experience a moving film did so in 1895. The film, by the Lumiere brothers was called “Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895)”

• Their film “Train Entering the Gare de Ciotat (1895)” caused people to faint with fear as the train loomed from the screen into the theatre auditorium.

• These films did not carry a story or narrative - they merely showed a moving image on the screen.

ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT (THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS, 1895).

MELIES

• Realising the potential of a good story George Melies ( 1861-1938) utilised film to create fantastic stories that took his characters and audiences to the moon and beyond.

CINEMA Cinema

The Function of Cinema

Goods of Cinema

Evils of Cinema

CINEMA

• A powerful vehicle for culture, education, leisure andpropaganda.

• Cinema is a form of communication.

• Cinema is a reflection of society, both present and past.

THE FUNCTION OFCINEMA

• It is “to delight and instruct”. The prior function of any movie is to delight the audience and then to instruct, for movies are also taken as a form of literature.

GOODS OF CINEMA

• Depiction of Reality

• Recreation

• Social and political importance

• Mould the Opinions & Change the System

• Educative

• Industry

• Cosmopolitan outlook and can be used for the growth of international understanding

EVILS OF CINEMA

• International relationship

• prematurely sex conscious

• Criminal activities

• A sense of dissatisfaction with life

• Use of drugs

• Youth imagine themselves to be heroes and heroines and just blindly behave in their own way.

• In the name of fashion they are spoiling the dressing sense of the youths.

• They are creating an image that Love is the main theme of life by creating films purely based on love background.

MOVIES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON TEENS Thesis

Definition

Positives and negative effects

Conclusion

THESIS

•As teens grow older movies become more special and begin to have a positive and lasting impact on their lives.

DEFINITIONS

• Popular culture refers to the beliefs and practices, and the objects through which they are organized, that are widely shared among a population.

• A theatrically released nonfiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects

POSITIVES

• Movies provide a fun activity for teens to do on the weekend

• Nearly 35% of all movie tickets sold can be attributed to the young people of ages 12 to 24

POSITIVES

• Cinema can build up a teen’s imagination because it takes them to another place where they have never been before

POSITIVES

• Movies can open the eyes to what’s out there for them and show what problems are happening in our world

NEGATIVES

• Movies can take up a lot of time and they cost a lot of money for a teen

NEGATIVES

• The promotion of the use of drugs

• Teens are twice as likely to try smoking when they see more scenes of smoking in movies as teens that see fewer instances of these scenes

NEGATIVES• Violent behaviors

• Movies can sometimes show the wrong way to deal with problems

• Vulgarity

• Affects Lifestyle

• Increase in No. of crimes

• Ignoring Higher Ideals

CONCLUSION:

• There are many other factors that weigh far heavier on the wrong decision such as family life, friends that are chosen, and the environment the teen was raised in

• Movies can have a greater positive effect on the teenage population with the inspiration they can give to all

• A good film is higher than any education and a bad film is more injurious than poison.