What is film

At every cinema performance, hundreds of metre's of film pass before, the eyes of the audience. A minute of cinema requires more then 27m (90 feet ) of film, a full length feature uses 2,5 km ( more then 1.5 miles ). Today a whole industry exists simply to supply the enormous quantities of film that movie companies need to process it, and to make the prints that are shown in cinema's.

3- D MOVIES

To create lifelike 3 dimensional depth in a projected movie, the camera must record two images, through lenses several inches apart, audiences wear special glasses, so that the left eye sees the image filmed by the left camera lens, and vise-versa.

MAKING A MOVIE

One film maker describes the magic of movies, as turning money into light, making films is very costly, because it involves so many people and so much work, the most obvious work takes place during production, when the film is being shot, but almost as much work is needed before and after this crucial phase. Producers oversea the whole process. They decide which films to make, find the money to finance them and make most important planning decisions. The producer hires a director to take most of the creative decisions about the film.

MAKING FACES

In the make-up artist's magic box there are pleasent dreams of youth and beauty. There are bad dreams of growing old and ugly, and there terrifying nightmares of turning into a werewolf or demon. The make-up artist delivers these and other transformations with the aid of latex { a kind of rubber ) wigs, powders, and pots or tubes of colour. Make-up lets the mature woman play a young woman. And it allows an actor to become fifty years older in scenes just a few minutes apart on screen. Faces and hair of a cast is intirely natural. This is easy when a camera films a scene in long shot, from a long way off, but when an actor's face fills the screen, every detail must be perfect for a successful illusion.

INTO THE UNKNOWN

Unknown horrors are much more frightening then those you see clearly. So in spine chillers and thrillers, every dark corner hides a menace or a monster. With luck its a murderer or a madman; without, it could be something much worse, like a vampire or a steely skinned robot, horror movies began in Germany. As early as 1913, German film makers were frightening audiences with tales of artificial life and mysterious death. Hollywood took over in the 1930s, and in Dracula found a monster that has terrified movie-goers ever since. By the 1950s, rapid advances in science worried people more then any vampire. So film makers used peoples fear of technology to create a new kind of film: science fiction. Today horror and science fiction films appear in every imaginable form. But whatever the film, you can be sure that it's not mad axeman or alien androids that get the loudest screems - it's the unexpected peril lerking half-hidden in the shadows.

FINGERS OF FEAR

In Nightmare on elm street children's bad dreams become reality, as they are chased by freddy a vicious monster with knife- blades for fingernails.

STAB AND SLASH

Alfred Hitchcock's chilling 1960 film psycho is a frighteninng murder story with a voilent stabbing as the climax. The film is scary even when the story is known, and it was the first chiller to be shown as the main feature, not as the B movie ( supporting feature ).

MY FAVOURATE SCARY MOVIES

Nightmare on Elm Street

Phycho

Exorcist

Halloween

Scream

I know what you did last summer

Hollow man

The bone collector

The blair witch