Film Industry - Recent technological change

Which best evidences technological change?

• Digital cameras

  Special effects such as CGI and 3D images

  Streaming

  Digital Convergence

  Social media

• analog cameras

  2D images

  watercooler chat

• Digital cameras

  Special effects

  Streaming

  Convergence

  Social media

Which best describes what digital convergence is?

• several platforms coming together

• several platforms coming together on one device

• non analog devices converging

1.       Why do digital cameras allow for faster and cheaper filming?

• digital cameras are accessed in an office

• digital cameras are cumbersome

• digital cameras are lightweight and mobile

1.       Which of the 5 are advantages to non-linear editing?

• sound editing can take place

• it makes the editor's job more challenging

• experimenting with meaning

• increases visceral response due to being able to change pace

• dissolves and fades can be visualised on screen

What do these new technologies correspond to?

• our cognitive and sensory experience of the contemporary world

• our stagnant cognitive and sensory experience of the contemporary world

• our changing cognitive and sensory experience of the contemporary world

What do special effects allow the film maker to create?

• a sense of realism

• a sense of immediacy

• a more visceral reponse

• none of these

What impact has special effects had on film exhibition?

• The rise of multiplex film theatres

• the construction of film theatres

• The rise of IMAX film theatres

Name 3 advantages to streaming.

• Producers can more easily access audiences in a home situated culture

• Streaming means distributers have more control

• Audiences can access texts in an unscheduled fashion

• Audiences have access to a wider variety of genres

Why does film marketing use social media - identify 3 reasons.

• They target an audience seeking personal relationships

• They target an audience seeking to express their personal identity

• They can reach a global audience

• Social Media replaces word of mouth