CYBERTRAINING

- ARSCIPRO'S WORKSHOP - © 1986-2010 - Jacques Gurfinkiel

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Generality

The various technical, creative, human, financial, etc...operations, needed for making a motion picture film, must have as a result: images and sounds recorded on a photographic support: the film.

This support is a tape of film, 35mm wide for professional films, rolled up in the shape of a reel.
This reel is projected in a movie theater with a projector.
A complete projection reel, makes 600 meters length in 35mm, which represents 20 minutes of projection. A full-length film includes at least 5 reels.

One can directly see on the film, a succession of images -- frames --, as well as the sound track in optical form -- optic track.

In the begining, the images and the sounds visible on the film were recorded from a reality which existed at one real time and in a real place; this moment is the shooting, and the place is the set.

We will not speak in this course about the particular cases where the recorded image does not come from a preexistent reality: case of opticals, animation, virtual images, etc... As for instance of the spectacular possibilities permitted by the wedding of the cinema and data processing.