The Magic of Movies
In the morning of Saturday after finished all housework, I have a chance to read a story talking about the movie since the past until now. It said that since December 28 , 1895, there have been movie audiences.That day the Lumiere brother showed short film in a cafe in Paris.The audience screamed when a train on the film came right toward them. Since then , filmmakers have used various technique to amaze audiences. These techniques form the art special effects and create the magic of movies. One of the first geniuses of special effect was also a Frenchman - Georges Melies. In 1899 , he made a movie called The Conjurer. In the movie , he disappeared and then his female assistant disappeared . How was this possible ?
Early movie makers stopped the camera and started it again. In - between time,the person or objects or scene in front of the camera changed. For example , in one of early films, the inventor Thomas Edison substituted a dummy for the actress in a film about Mary, Queen of Scots. The dummy's head was chopped off to shoe the queen death . When audiences saw the scene, they gasped in horror. Since then, filmmakers have used techniques like this to make people see things that didn't happen in real life in front of the camera. Moviemakers today still use another old technique : small model for large objects. One of the most famous special effects in movie history was King Kong in a 1933 film. The huge gorilla scared audiences when he climbed the Empire State Building. But the real king was a model and was actually only 18 inches high. The moviemakers used the stop - motion technique . Workers put the model of gorilla in one position and took a picture. The they moved it a tiny bit and took another picture. For one second on the screen , there were twenty - four pictures of King Kong.
Recently, computers have become important in special effects. In 1996, the movie Toy Story was the first movie made entirely of computer - generated image and characters. Over 800,000 hours of computer time went into the final film.The recent series of Star War films has made extensive use of digital computer images. In fact ,in some scenes , 95 percent of the screen contained image made by computers. And the director George Lucas even took facial expression of actors on film and mixed them together in different way with a computer. The art of filmmaking never stop . What magical effects will moviemakers use in the future ? You will see them at the movie.
Reference : Manuel dos Santos , 2000. Super Goal : กรุงเทพ . โรงพิมพ์ไทยวัฒนาพานิช
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