1. Explain
the psychology of entertainment. (Assignment No.2) Please define the
similarities between painting, sculpture, sporting events and cinematography.
People didn’t even start
thinking about entertainment until they could think about leisure and trying to
find something to consume their excess time. When man finally figured out how
to do things efficiently this was possible, and thus entertainment was
“created”. Painting, sculpting, sporting events, and cinematography were all
happened upon because of leisure time and people were bored. People wanted
something to give them pleasure and to entertain them, so they did these types
of things for that purpose in their leisure time.
2. After
watching about 20 minutes of The Dock of New York, a silent drama, explain what
are the elements that substitute the sound?
There is text that describes
what is going on currently in the film. There is music playing the whole time,
so there is some sound. The visuals are much more telling, detailed, and drawn
out. The actors really over exaggerate body language and facial expressions so
you can feel what’s going on.
3. What
has changed in the movie industry with the coming of sound? Why did producers
fear the coming of sound?
Many people
thought of film as simply a visual art form, but it wasn’t until they were able
to put sound properly with the visual film that people started seeing it as
being possible for it to be seen and heard.
Producers
were fearful of having sound with the film because they weren’t sure of how to
work with it and make their films just as good and correctly, since they had
never worked with sound before.
4. What were
the changes that took place in entertainment media with the coming of color?
5. Innumerate
the innovations that took place in entertainment media in 1960s.
In the 1960s
the film industry dramatically shifted and started focusing on the growing
youth market, and to this day the average moviegoer is a teenage boy. Media
companies started to combine and grow and do everything from movies to books,
and etc.
6. Name people
(at least 7) that can be credited with the development of cinematographic tools
that revolutionized the movie business. (Sound, color, special effects)
Please explain why their innovations were significant.
· Christiaen Huygens, Dutch scientist, invented the
magic lantern, the forerunner of the modern slide projector, in 1659 to project
medical drawings to an audience.
· Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, was hired to help
settle a bet on how a horse runs. He lined up 24 cameras along the edge of a racetrack,
with strings attached to the shutters. When the horse ran by, it tripped the
shutters, producing 24 closely spaced pictures that when flipped through made
it seem like a moving picture.
· In 1876, a French physiologist, Etienne-Jules Marey,
was the first person to take moving pictures with a single camera. He built his
camera in the shape of a rifle with a circular photographic place that rotated
after he snapped the shutter and he was able to take 12 pictures a second.
· In 1923, Lee De Forest, an American inventor,
demonstrated the practicality of placing a soundtrack directly on a filmstrip.
He invented the Phonofilm, where he combined his
amplifier and picture to record sound on film.
· The DeMilles brothers came to California
from New York in 1913. They brought the Laskey Feature Play Co with them and
they recorded the first feature film from California, The Squawman.
· Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope,
which was the movie viewing system.
· Louis Lumiere invented the
Cinematograph, which was a self-contained camera and projector. It was the
first apparatus for making and showing films.