What is Cinematic Art?

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Film is a new art form that emerged after literature, theater, music, dance, painting and architecture. It was invented at the end of the 19th century and gradually developed from what was initially considered "schoolboy's play" and "slaves' amusement" into the most widespread and influential art of the 20th century. It is through the camera to shoot a number of frames per second speed of operation, the subject of the movement of the process of time and space transition recorded on the strip film, and then the different films are connected, after development, fixing. The process of drying and processing into movie prints results in a film that can be projected for many people to watch at the same time. Film from the initial filming of some of the activities of daily life scene fragments, the development of the present has been able to film the colorful, complex changes in the real world, concrete image to reflect the ability of social life and vivid artistic infectivity.

Because of the style of film and a variety of films, there is a focus on the complete storyline, characterization of the feature film, there is a report on a political, economic, cultural and educational, military or historical events of the activities of the documentary, but also the use of a variety of art means and materials produced by the film, and record the stage performance of the theater film, and so on. In these categories, there are several kinds of films. For example, there are comedies, westerns, romances, science fiction films, etc. in feature films; there are animations, puppets, paper cuts in art films; and there are biographies, documentaries, news documentaries in documentary films. It includes literature, theater, painting, architecture, music, dance and other artistic components, so it is called comprehensive art.

The so-called comprehensive art, refers to the synthesis of several art components and constitute the art style. Its characteristics are:

Collective creation. Including screenwriting, directing, acting, art, photography, sound recording of a number of creative departments of the organic cooperation of artistic creation;

The use of all existing methods of artistic expression. Cinema has a literary component of description and structure, a dramatic component of dialog, inner monologue, physical movements, facial expressions, a musical component of songs and visual images integrated with the picture;

extensive mass culture. The composition of the movie is to express and show the relationship between people and the environment in all countries of the world as well as their customs, lifestyles and cultural level with moving images and various kinds of sound, and it is easy to understand and understand.

However, the synthesis of the movie does not mean the simple addition of various artistic components, but refers to the integration of various forms of art into a new thing to express. In addition to the general characteristics of literature and art, it also has its own individual characteristics. This lies in the movie art performance tools and other art performance tools are different. The movie is reflected by the camera. The camera has a real record to reflect the object and its movement of space-time conversion of this feature, which forms a special film expression and film narrative language, the organic unity of the various components of the art combined into a new image of artistic expression.

Because of this, film as an art, although it is the newest and youngest art after the birth of many ancient traditional arts such as literature, theater, music, dance, painting, sculpture, photography ......, it is also the only art that can let us know the date of its birth. It is only a hundred years since December 28, 1895, when Lumière officially released the world's earliest film of its own making to success. In contrast, the ancient traditions of the arts, some of which have endured for thousands or thousands of years, are not known even to the experts and scholars who specialize in the history of the arts. Compared with the old traditional art, movie is only a little brother. But it is later to rise, the youngest art - film, with its incomparable artistic power, broke into the world of art, and leaped into the most rich mass of the most influential with the century with the age of the giant of the arts. The reason why it can be so is precisely because it is young and has its own advantages. Because the movie is not only born after the ancient traditional art, but also it is absorbed and digested the strengths of these arts and abandoned their shortcomings, organic synthesis of a variety of artistic factors and the formation of a new and unique form of art. Therefore, the organic synthesis of various art categories is the most prominent aesthetic characteristic of film art, and synthesis is the essence of the beauty of film.

Early film researchers started from the proposition of who the movie is like, and explored the basic holding of movie art and the mystery of movie beauty. Their views and conclusions varied greatly. Some people think that film is like literature, some think that film is like drama, some think that film is like painting, and some say that it is like music and so on. The list goes on and on. So there are "visible literature", "movie poetry", "visual symphony", "silent melody" and so on. These are all attempts to define the nature of movie beauty from the level of movie aesthetics. Although these insights have their relative rationality, their one-sidedness is obvious today. Film is like no one, film is film, because the film is absorbing, inclusive of literature, theater, music, dance, painting, sculpture, photography ...... factors of the arts, set them in a comprehensive art.

The movie includes the factors of literature, because it draws a whole set of methods from literature to reflect the objective world and the relationship between reality, and draws nutrition from a wide range of genres of literature, such as poetry from the lyricism, from the prose from the documentary, from the novel from the narrative. In terms of narrative techniques, it also draws on subjective and objective narratives, external depictions and internal analysis, as well as various forms of structural principles in literature. In short, no matter from the characterization, the arrangement of plot structure, the description of details, the way of narrative, the movie has borrowed from the experience of literature and has literary elements. Dramatic elements in movies are manifested in the use of a series of artistic methods and means, such as actor performance, scene scheduling, conflict and suspense. The music factor in the movie is manifested in the melody to match the picture in order to create the environment atmosphere, render the emotion and change the rhythm. As for the painting, sculpture, photography and other factors in the film, not only in the modelling and visual reproduction, the composition, color and light and shadow of the treatment, borrowed from the experience of these arts, and many of the special terms in the film, such as the picture, tone, shade, lens, focal length, etc., are also borrowed from these arts.

The movie draws from literature a whole set of methods for reflecting the objective world and the relationship between reality, and borrows from the experience, methods and techniques of literature in every aspect from the characterization, the arrangement of plot structure, the portrayal of details to the form of narrative, and so on, and thus has the element of literature. But literature enters the movie', due to the constraints of the movie, after digestion and integration, has undergone qualitative changes, rather than the movie plus literature. There is a qualitative difference between the literary element in cinema and literature as an art of language. It is because although movies draw extensively on the experience, methods and techniques of literature in shaping the image of art, literature shapes the image of literature through the sole medium of language and literature, whereas movies shape the image of the screen through picture and sound as well as through montage, a special means of expression that is unique to movies. Writers use language to write stories, people, and souls. Literary image is to give readers associations through abstract linguistic symbols, while screen image is to appeal to the audience's audiovisual senses through visible images and audible sounds in a concrete and direct way. It can be seen that the literary factor in the movie is never the movie plus literature.

Film draws nutrients from painting, including composition, light and shadow, color, the use of lines and processing, with the factors of painting, but painting into the film is not a film plus painting, film painting factors in the film is subject to the film constraints, and the art of painting has a qualitative difference. The means of reproducing life in painting are lines and colors, while the means of film is the picture, and there is sound to go with it. The modeling image in painting can only be static, static see movement, can not show the continuous movement of the object, the modeling image in the screen is always changing the continuous movement of the modeling image.

The movie from the theater to absorb the nutrition of the inclusion of theatrical art factors, but the drama into the film, by the constraints of the film was digested by the integration of qualitative changes, not the film plus theater. The concept of time and space in the movie is qualitatively different from that of the theater. Stage space is fixed, while screen space is constantly changing. Stage time is the real physical time, while screen time can be freely extended, compressed, stagnant non-physical time. Therefore, the spatial and temporal performance of theater is restricted, while the spatial and temporal performance of screen has great freedom. Not only that, there is also a qualitative difference between theater performance and film performance. The performer's performance and the admirer's appreciation *** time ****, at the same time, this is the characteristics of the theater performance; while the movie performance is another situation: the performer is present in the performance, the admirer is absent; the admirer is present in the appreciation, the absence of the performer, the performer's performance and the admirer's appreciation is not *** time ****, is not completed at the same time. Therefore, this determines the theater performance and film performances have their own special rules rather than consistent.

Other arts into the movie, the same to produce qualitative changes, all of which shows that the movie draws on a variety of artistic disciplines, and is not a simple addition of the arts together, but after the synthesis of the organic synthesis of the whole. Movies have absorbed a variety of art categories and formed a comprehensive aesthetic characteristics, in terms of its essence, is the organic synthesis of time art and space art. Because of this, as a new type of art combining time art and space art - movie, it overcomes the limitations and shortcomings of traditional pure time art which is difficult to fully express space and traditional pure space art which is difficult to express time, and it can fully express both time and space, and thus it has a great potential for expression and art. Therefore, it has great potential for expression and artistic possibilities. From this, it is not difficult to see that the comprehensive essence of the movie, which embraces a variety of artistic disciplines, also lies in the fact that it is a synthesis of visual and auditory arts, which overcomes the limitations of pure visual arts that are difficult to satisfy the aesthetic demand for auditory images and the limitations of pure auditory arts that are difficult to satisfy the aesthetic demand for visual images and has the advantage of integrating the advantages of both the audio and the visual, and has become the most popular form of art.