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Sound!

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It is crucially important to human experience and to sound design in film. Sound is important in a film production. Different aspects of sound enhance the characters and the story, making the movie a complete experience. In addition, sound is edited into the movie so it is coherent and comprehensible within the movie. Some sort of sound is always used to enhance the movie experience. Sound in a movie includes  music,  dialogue,  sound effects,  ambient noise, and/or background noise and  soundtracks .  Music  Music is a very important element for a movie. In the silent movie period, music was played throughout the whole movie. The film score is the music at the beginning of the movie when the credits are rolling, and it sets the atmosphere for the movie. Music is also played at critical points during a movie. It indicate  something is going to happen,  some situations have occurred in  a movie,  Dialogue D ialogue is defined as a conversation between two or more people in a movie. In

THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS

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Famous for inventing the cinematograph and the autochrome, Auguste and Louis Lumière are among the most significant figures in film and photography history. With their first Cinématographe show in the basement of the Grand Café in the boulevard des Capucines in Paris on 28 December 1895, the Lumière brothers have been regarded as the inventors of  cinema —the projection of moving photographic pictures on a screen for a paying audience. However, they were probably not the first to do this: the Latham brothers in New York were screening boxing films to paying audiences from 20 May 1895, using their Eidoloscope projector. Nevertheless, the achievement of the Lumière brothers was considerable. Their Cinématographe was the first satisfactory apparatus for taking and projecting films, and its claw mechanism became the basis for most cine cameras. THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS’ BEGINNINGS Auguste and Louis Lumière were born in Lyon, France, where their father, Antoine Lumière , had a photogra

History of film from 1830-1910

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A schema theory

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The term schema was first introduced in 1923  by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development that utilized schemas as one of its key components.   Piaget defined schemas  as basic units of knowledge that related to all aspects of the world. He said that different schemas are mentally applied in appropriate situations to help people both comprehend and interpret information.   To Piaget, cognitive development hinges on an individual acquiring more schemas and increasing the nuance and complexity of existing schemas. The concept of schema was later described by psychologist  Frederic Bartlett  in 1932.   Bartlett conducted experiments that tested how schemas factored into people’s memory of events. He suggested that schemas help people process and remember information. So when an individual is confronted with information that fits their existing schema, they will interpret it based on that cognitive framework. However, information