Art is a rather versatile concept. It includes a large number of categories, including cinema, literature, theater, etc. Cinema as a field of art basically contains a film. In modern language, the concepts of "cinema" and "film" merged into one. What is a film from a scientific and non-scientific point of view, what are they and how do they differ from each other? We will deal with this later in the article.
What is a movie?
The answer to this question is difficult to find. What is a movie after all? From a scientific and technical point of view, it is a sequence of moving images that are interconnected by a plot, united by sound. Previously, films were recorded on film, which was connected by simple gluing. With the development of technology, they began to record it on optical discs, portable memory devices (flash cards, external hard drives, etc.).
What movies are there?
Films are different from each other. And not only due to the plot (1 or several stories on which the movie is built), but also because of the relevance to certain types. They can be classified according to the criteria:
- The degree of documentation:
- Fiction (actors play in them, there is a plot, etc.).
- Documentary (a work about any events, people, facts, telling about real life).
- Popular science (dedicated to science, nature, technology, etc.).
- Duration:
- Short (film, the duration of which does not exceed 40 minutes).
- Full-length (viewers spend on viewing from 1 to several hours).
- Attitude to the source:
- Screen adaptation of works (shooting based on a literary work).
- Original (film shot according to the author’s script).
- Remake (shooting a new version of an existing movie).
- Innovation:
- Traditional.
- Experimental (a new presentation of the famous genre, a combination of storylines, etc., this has not happened in the cinema yet).
- Viewer Type:
- Family.
- Children’s.
- With age restriction.
- Mass (aimed at a mass audience, often a television film).
- Arthouse (watching a relatively small circle of people).
- Manufacturer:
- Professional (filmed by a professional team with special equipment).
- Amateur (filmed by an amateur director, but this does not always make him worse).
- Genre:
- Comedy.
- Drama.
- Fantasy and fantasy.
- The horror.
- Thriller.
- Detective.
- Cartoon.
- Action movie.
- Musical.
- Historical.
8. The objectives pursued by the author:
- Artistic (interest lies in the work on the tape itself and in showing it to the audience as an object of art).
- Commercial (shot on the order of commercial companies, often with the inclusion of advertising of this company in the plot of the film).
- Socio-political (shot at the request of political organizations, this was especially common in Soviet times).
Why do we need them?
For some people, the answer to the question: "What is a film?" - This is a means of learning something new, rest after a hard day, a way to take free time. Now watching films has become a popular pastime and hobby, especially among young people. Good films develop culture, enrich spiritually. And those who do not read books, but watch feature films, can still maintain a conversation and call themselves enlightened in literature, because Now there are a lot of high-quality adaptations and remakes.