Film, also called amovie,motion picture,theatrical film, orphotoplay, is a series of still images that when shown on ascreencreate an illusion of motion images (due to thephi phenomenon).
Thisoptical illusioncauses the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. The process offilmmakingis both anartand anindustry. A film is created byphotographingactual scenes with amotion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditionalanimationtechniques; by means ofCGIandcomputer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and othervisual effects.
The word "cinema", short forcinematography, is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself. The contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations.[1]
Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through aphotochemicalprocess and then shown through amovie projectoronto a large screen. Contemporary films are now oftenfully digitalthrough the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish, while films recorded in a photochemical form traditionally included an analogousoptical soundtrack, which is a graphicrecordingof the spoken words, music and othersoundsthat accompany the images. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected.
