CIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diegesis, Establishing Shot, Thomas Edison
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Cinema comes from greek word kinema which means movement. Creation of cinema begin with the creation of optical toys. (phenakistoscope: look through holes of toy and see the appearance of movement. Phenakistoscope comes form greek word phenakekizein for to deceive or. The history of cinema began with a lie . The phi phenomenom: an effect of the eye that creates the perception of movement, when small rapid changes occur in a image. Persistence of vision: an afterimage effect on the eye that renders the blank spaces between individual film frames to appear invisible, lending continuity to moving image. Still is used when watching a movie on standard film, ex. 24 fps or 16 fps, watching still images perceiving to be moving . Cinema is moving images over multiple platforms that has changed over many eras on the film. Etienne-jules marey: the chronophotographic gun-invention of film roll.
