BVA year2 Blog 12

How film art present to wide audience

In the last few blogs, I talked about some film technics that has been frequently used in making film and the forms of expression. In this blog, I would like to explain what film art exactly is and the function of it.

Film is a new art form after literature, drama, dancing, painting, and building. Filmmaking has been developed around 200 years since it was invented at 19th century. And now it has become the most influential art in our world. There are varieties of movies, some movies are emphasize on the narrative and describing distinguished of character，some movies are more about documentary.

Due to anything could be filmed and then present to audience, so film is a comprehensive art, bearing the art factors of many arts such as moves, music, dance, drawing and literature. But different films highlight different context and genre. As a visual art student, I like the film that involved a plenty of literature factors and drawing factors.

Film absorbs the method of how literature describes human social life andthe realistic world. From the built of characters, arrange of story line, description of detail to narrative structures. However, the element of literature in film is totally different from the language art based on words. Literature can only use language art to describe and build characters. Film can express story through motion pictures, acoustics and its unique form of expression-Montage. Also, Film absorbs a lot of elements from drawing. These elements include the use of image structure, color, shadows and lines. But this is not about put drawing into filmmaking. Drawing is about reflecting human life through line and color. Film is just other way around, it using motion images and the cooperation with sound.

Film is a organic complex of many different art. It is not just piece different form of art expression together. Filmmaking is about use other art as reference and inspiration, then use these elements to create its own art form to wide audience.