Lights Camera Action
Lights. ... Camera. ... Action! ... Digital camera and filmmaking software allows almost anybody to create a film. ... Whether you use a camcorder, digital camera or movie camera, the steps needed to produce the finished product are the same. ... The Birth of Cinema One of the major reasons for the emergence of motion pictures in the 1890s was the late 1880s development of a camera that could capture movement and a sprocket system that could move the film through the camera. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a young assistant in Thomas Edisons laboratories, designed an early version of a movie-picture camera (an optical lantern projector) - named a Kinetograph - that was first patented by Edison in 1893. ... Most films can be described as one of the following 19 specified genres, which are as follows: action, adventrue, animation, comedy, crime, documentary, drama family, fantasy, film-noir, horrow, musical, mystery, romance, science fiction, shorts, thriller, war, and western. ... The basic equipment need on a set is the camera, wether it be a basic family video camera or a full range 35mm video camera. ... When Sam turned 13 he got his very own camera and with it he filmed everything from stooge like comedies to civil war epics. ... (If Chins could kill, chapter 17) While filming Sam came up with several never before done camera tricks. ... Again Sam created new and interesting camera tricks. ... The Sam-O-Cam was more than likely his favorite of any of those camera tricks. It was a strange contraption where the actor is strapped on a big X in front of the camera while Sam set behind it with a remote control. ... To Sam the camera must be the greatest toy ever given to man and he plays with it well. ... He had a huge cast and crew, but kept mostly familiar faces in front and behind the camera. ... Most people have seen the movies where someone holds a clapper and someone else says “Lights, camera, action!