This is the BLOG for the ISB teams at the World Scholar's Cup 2013 in Kuala Lumpur. Please use this blog to discuss the extracts from the section on Poetry, Film and Prose.
is it important because it was the first film ever made and it was nothing more than a train arriving at a station with people gathering and yet people were amazed at how film works? i think it is important as an exploration of the major themes because this is where film started and it was then broken up into different themes so this is important because it is like the core of all film and where it all started. i think
Well, naturally any film of this age is significant because film hold an unbiased visual account of life, unless edited of course, documenting what is objective, not people being subjective. How it relates to 'A World in Motion' could possibly be due to the train, used for transport, or due the people on the move to get from one place to another in long distance travel and its development. This was a time before cars were available, so this would have been standard transportation, with the horse and cart. I cannot find anything else online, so they may be migrants, though I do not know. Has anyone got anything to say on the matter?
I believe this film is important because it shocked audiences by showing them how realistic moving images could be and (according to urban legend) many audience members were afraid the train would hit them when they saw the film for the first time. It is also important because it is one of the first films ever made and whilst making this film the Lumière Brothers were trying to achieve a 3D image. It relates to the world scholar's cup because it involves the science of transportation in the moving train and also shows how this film was one of the major movements in film.
This was ONE OF THE FIRST films ever made, so one can imagine the massive impact on the audience in 1896 - at its first PUBLIC screening - and later on, its impact on society in general. It revolutionized the way humans tell stories and inspired many other storytellers to follow in their footsteps. The film "Hugo" tells the story of George Méliès and how he became pssionate about film.
This relates to the theme as it was an amazing movement in storytelling and photography, and also as it was a train coming into a station: that could relate the the overall theme, the Science subject, this subject and the history subject. In some ways, it also relates to globalization; I cannot explain this in much detail.
The first ever moving picture. Imagine how amazing would that be. If you've watched Harry Potter, you'd see that there are photographs that are enchanted to move. They are REAL. They are in our world. All you need to do is go to the cinema.
Imagine no films. I cannot help but say that this would make such a big impact on my life since I am passionate about making films. But films are more than entertainment. They are a chance to jump out of your life and in to someone else's. Almost an escape from the limited world we live in to something amazing, something preposterous, something we have never seen before. They can change the way we feel like magic. They can make us happy and upbeat, they can make us scream in fear, they can make us cry tears of fictional sentimentality. They can make us grip on to the edge of our seat, they can make us have laughing fits on the ground, or they can fill us with information so astonishing that we can't help but to question it's truth. When we finish watching a film, no matter what type, we always feel a little bit different than we did before we watched it. Movies can alter the way you think, or the way you feel. But what's even more brilliant than that is that no matter how different, movies are always and emphasised or exaggerated version of subliminal reality. They are always captured on a camera on earth, edited on a computer on earth, and seen on a TV on earth. It's a twisted version of your everyday life. So you could say that every single movie out there is "based on a true story", because all ideas come from inspiration, even if it is just a piece of toast, or a phone, or a train coming into a station. And I believe that a train coming into a station is like a hidden message, saying that film is still only in a station and it hasn't taken off yet. And when it does, it will go to great places. So more than travel - travel is only a miniature substitute compared to the incredible places that we go even when we don't move at all. And look, look at how this, extremely unsophisticated and less than a minutes worth of film has evolved, and morphed into things like "Life of Pi", "The Hobbit" and "The Adventures of TinTin". Cause the "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" really is the train station that film has departed from, and the journey of film isn't even a fraction of the way to it's phenomenal destination.
is it important because it was the first film ever made and it was nothing more than a train arriving at a station with people gathering and yet people were amazed at how film works? i think it is important as an exploration of the major themes because this is where film started and it was then broken up into different themes so this is important because it is like the core of all film and where it all started. i think
ReplyDeleteWell, naturally any film of this age is significant because film hold an unbiased visual account of life, unless edited of course, documenting what is objective, not people being subjective. How it relates to 'A World in Motion' could possibly be due to the train, used for transport, or due the people on the move to get from one place to another in long distance travel and its development. This was a time before cars were available, so this would have been standard transportation, with the horse and cart. I cannot find anything else online, so they may be migrants, though I do not know. Has anyone got anything to say on the matter?
ReplyDeleteI believe this film is important because it shocked audiences by showing them how realistic moving images could be and (according to urban legend) many audience members were afraid the train would hit them when they saw the film for the first time. It is also important because it is one of the first films ever made and whilst making this film the Lumière Brothers were trying to achieve a 3D image. It relates to the world scholar's cup because it involves the science of transportation in the moving train and also shows how this film was one of the major movements in film.
ReplyDeleteAre you quoting Urban Legend?
DeleteThis was ONE OF THE FIRST films ever made, so one can imagine the massive impact on the audience in 1896 - at its first PUBLIC screening - and later on, its impact on society in general. It revolutionized the way humans tell stories and inspired many other storytellers to follow in their footsteps. The film "Hugo" tells the story of George Méliès and how he became pssionate about film.
ReplyDeleteThis relates to the theme as it was an amazing movement in storytelling and photography, and also as it was a train coming into a station: that could relate the the overall theme, the Science subject, this subject and the history subject. In some ways, it also relates to globalization; I cannot explain this in much detail.
The first ever moving picture. Imagine how amazing would that be. If you've watched Harry Potter, you'd see that there are photographs that are enchanted to move. They are REAL. They are in our world. All you need to do is go to the cinema.
ReplyDeleteImagine no films. I cannot help but say that this would make such a big impact on my life since I am passionate about making films. But films are more than entertainment. They are a chance to jump out of your life and in to someone else's. Almost an escape from the limited world we live in to something amazing, something preposterous, something we have never seen before. They can change the way we feel like magic. They can make us happy and upbeat, they can make us scream in fear, they can make us cry tears of fictional sentimentality. They can make us grip on to the edge of our seat, they can make us have laughing fits on the ground, or they can fill us with information so astonishing that we can't help but to question it's truth. When we finish watching a film, no matter what type, we always feel a little bit different than we did before we watched it. Movies can alter the way you think, or the way you feel. But what's even more brilliant than that is that no matter how different, movies are always and emphasised or exaggerated version of subliminal reality. They are always captured on a camera on earth, edited on a computer on earth, and seen on a TV on earth. It's a twisted version of your everyday life. So you could say that every single movie out there is "based on a true story", because all ideas come from inspiration, even if it is just a piece of toast, or a phone, or a train coming into a station. And I believe that a train coming into a station is like a hidden message, saying that film is still only in a station and it hasn't taken off yet. And when it does, it will go to great places. So more than travel - travel is only a miniature substitute compared to the incredible places that we go even when we don't move at all. And look, look at how this, extremely unsophisticated and less than a minutes worth of film has evolved, and morphed into things like "Life of Pi", "The Hobbit" and "The Adventures of TinTin". Cause the "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" really is the train station that film has departed from, and the journey of film isn't even a fraction of the way to it's phenomenal destination.