Theory: Film Art

• A film has a form - made up of parts that relate to one another in specific and deliberate ways
• Need to analyse- 1) films that have influenced you 2) as a focus group your classmates films 3) the progress and final outcome of your own film 
• The film industry is a large business - many films are made with profit as a primary objective / focus -- it is also very costly to produce a film
• Where do movies come from?... 1) imagination & hard work of the filmmakers who create them 2) an extraordinary complex set of machines that capture and reply images 3) companies or individuals that pay for the filmmakers & the technology 
• "Le Cinema Règne" describes the feeling when everything falls into place during filming
• Many factors to think about... e.g. given the kind of story being told, would it be better to let the audience know what the central character is thinking or to keep him enigmatic?
• Keep a record of when incidents occur during filming/creating your product and talk about them in the evaluation - say how you overcame them