Movies CH 6

How did the movie industry lose it’s audience to TV?

It got smaller after 1948 due to TV offering home-delivered entertainment across the nation.

Movies at work

Movie production falls mainly into what categories?

• Screen writers

• Producers

• Actors

• Directors

• Technical production

• Marketing and Administration

How does Digital Technology Drives the Business?

Technological advancements pave the way for new ways to invent movies.

What is the block booking?

A system that was developed by Paramount studios to require theaters to take more than 100 pictures in a block, and most are second rate.

What is the name of the book Étienne-Jules Marey charted a horse’s movements on graphs and published the information in a book?

Animal Mechanism

What is the name of the camera,  In 1882, Marey perfected a photographic gun camera that could take 12 photographs on one plate?

The first motion picture camera

What is the name of the French filmmaker Georges Méliès added fantasy to the movies with his 1902 film, which was the first outer-space movie adventure?

A Trip To The Moon

Explain Movies mirror the culture?

Movies can influence or create trends.

Viewers began to imitate speech, dress, behavior of common heroes on silver screen.

Analyze the term Cultural Imperialism or Globalization

Culture can be included within products such as film, this will help influence consumers as they learn to imitate the dress and behavior of their favorite celeb.

What are the three aspects of digital technologies?

• Production

• Distribution

• Exhibition

Role of producers in work?

Help gather funding for movie project.

Roles of director?

Manage budget

Organize all tasks necessary to turn script into a movie

Every movie begins with ideas, who’s it from?

Screen writers

What do independent companies do?

Produce most of the movies that is distributed by the major studios and exhibited in the local theaters.