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About PhilmEd
PhilmEd is a nonprofit organization that focuses on teaching Philly public school children about film, camera work, and channeling their creative spirits. PhilmEd aims to provide Philly children from elementary to junior high school with an outlet from their day to day math, science, and reading heavy curriculum. Increasingly the Philadelphia Public School District has seen music, art, and other creative mediums in school shrink due to budget cuts. We believe that all children should have access to programs that nurture their creative spirits. Founded in 2018 by Dan, Jack, Miette, and Dylan, PhilmEd is primarily sponsored by the M.Night Shyamalan foundation. PhilmEd also receives funding from Philadelphia actors Rob Mcelhenney, Bradley Cooper, and Tina Fey.
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Beginning of Film
Movies Today
Movies Writing
Creativity
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The Beginning
Plot and Climax
Story Board
Script and Draw
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Beginning of Film
No one person invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison Company in the USA successfully demonstrated a prototype of the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris. At first, films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. They were shown at fairgrounds and music halls or anywhere a screen could be set up and a room darkened. Subjects included local scenes and activities, views of foreign lands, short comedies and events considered newsworthy. The films were accompanied by lecturers, music and a lot of audience participation—although they did not have synchronized dialogue, they were not ‘silent’ as they are sometimes described.
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By 1914, several national film industries were established. Europe, Russia and Scandinavia were as important as America. Films became longer, and storytelling, or narrative, became the dominant form. As more people paid to see movies, the industry which grew around them was prepared to invest more money in their production, distribution and exhibition, so large studios were established and special cinemas built. The First World War greatly limited the film industry in Europe, and the American industry grew in relative importance. The first 30 years of cinema were characterized by the growth and consolidation of an industrial base, the establishment of the narrative form, and refinement of technology.
Lumière brothers
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Color Color was first added to black-and-white movies through tinting, toning and stenciling. By 1906, the principles of color separation were used to produce so-called ‘natural color’ moving images with the British Kinemacolor process, first presented to the public in 1909. The early Technicolor processes from 1915 onwards were cumbersome and expensive, and color was not used more widely until the introduction of its three-color process in 1932.
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The first attempts to add synchronized sound to projected pictures used phonographic cylinders or discs. The first feature-length movie incorporating synchronized dialogue, The Jazz Singer (USA, 1927), used the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system, which employed a separate record disc with each reel of film for the sound. This system proved unreliable and was soon replaced by an optical, variable density soundtrack recorded photographically along the edge of the film.
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Golden Age By the early 1930s, nearly all feature-length movies were presented with synchronized sound and, by the mid-1930s, some were in full color too. The advent of sound secured the dominant role of the American industry and gave rise to the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’. During the 1930s and 1940s, cinema was the principal form of popular entertainment, with people often attending cinemas twice weekly. In Britain the highest attendances occurred in 1946, with over 31 million visits to the cinema each week.
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Movies Today
In the past 20 years, film production has been profoundly altered by the impact of rapidly improving digital technology. Though productions may still be shot on film most subsequent processes, such as editing and special effects, are undertaken on computers before the final images are transferred back to film. The need for this final transfer is diminishing as more cinemas invest in digital projection which is capable of producing screen images that rival the sharpness, detail and brightness of traditional film projection. In the past few years there has been a revival of interest in 3D features, both animated and live action, sparked by the availability of digital technology. Whether this will be more than a short-term phenomenon.
Infinity War
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Today, green screens — and blue screens — are a popular way for filmmakers visions to come to life. After filming with a green screen, images are applied to the background during the editing process. While some movies, like “The Jungle Book”, may look like they were filmed outside, they were actually filmed inside a studio in front of a green screen.
Over the years, technology like 3D animation techniques and CGI have allowed animated movies to be as life like as possible. Now, almost everything animated is created digitally through computers, digital pens, tablets, and digital sculpting tools.
Moana
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Movie Writing Understand what a script is The script, or screenplay, outlines all of the elements (audio, visual, behavior, and dialogue) that are required to tell a story through movies or TV. A script is almost never the work of a single person.
Read your favorite movie scripts Find movie scripts online and decide what you like (and don’t like) about them. Get a feel for how the action is portrayed, dialogue is written, and characters are developed.
Flesh out a concept Assuming you already have an idea you want to write about, sketch out all the necessary plot details, relationships, and personality traits that will guide your story. Which elements are the most integral to your concept? How do your characters interact and why? What’s your larger point? Are there any plot holes?
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Outline your story Begin with a basic flow of your narrative. Focus on the conflict of the story; conflict drives drama. Keep length in mind. When in script format, each page is roughly one minute of screen time. The average length of a two-hour script is 120 pages. Dramas should be around the 2 hour mark, comedies should be shorter, around one and a half hours. Also keep in mind that unless the writer is already known, has connections, or is extremely bankable, a long screenplay doesn’t have a realistic chance of getting picked up. If the story you need to tell can’t be condensed into less than two hours of screen time, you might be better off turning it into a novel.
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Creativity
Being creative means taking risks and ignoring doubt and facing fears. It means breaking with routine and doing something different for the sake of doing something different. It means mapping out a thousand different routes to reach one destination. It means challenging yourself every day. Being creative means searching for inspiration in even the most mundane places. It means you’re asking stupid questions. It means creating without critiquing. Being creative means you know how to find the similarities and differences between two completely random ideas. Being creative means you’re thinking.
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Creativity in Hollywood Unlike most films and television shows, inspiration is not available on-demand. In the highly creative realm of movie-making, a good idea can catapult careers, spark motion picture franchises, and make cinematic history. Inventing the next film can mean laying the groundwork for brilliant movies and television, from Inception, Taxi Driver, The Master, or Edward Scissorhands. Of course, caveats abound. Coming up with brilliant ideas isn’t exactly a science and oftentimes, the search for the next big plot requires hours of behind-the-scenes brainstorming, paper doodling, daydreaming, and even an epic cross-country road trip or two.
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M. Knight Shyamalan
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Knowledge from Shyamalan M. Night Shymalan is not a mystery. He might be shy about doling out advice in interviews, but his social media presence is very instructive for those who admire and follow him. He’s had a lot of ups and downs in his career, having broken out with 1999’s The Sixth Sense, which is still considered by many to be his best work and the best example of what he’s become famous for: the twist ending. His movies don’t always come together as well as that one, but he’s still a respectable filmmaker with a lot of good ideas and surprises up his sleeve now and again. Shyamalan is very focused on writing things from his heart and then letting his creations come to life as honestly and naturally as possible. Still, there’s a balance in going with your gut and knowing when to admit your mistakes and listen to others for input. Of course, the people you listen to, whether real or fictional, have to be as authentic and human as can be, as well. Most importantly, you should only be a filmmaker if you can’t do anything else, and then if that’s true, keep going, learning from failures, until you succeed.
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Will Smith
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Social Media Creativity Since breaking into entertainment in 1986 with his first hit single, “Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble,” Smith has meticulously crafted his public persona—the rapper, the Fresh Prince, the actor, the action star. He was known for studying the highest-grossing and best-performing movies to look for patterns that he could apply to his own film choices. But there were sides of himself he found he couldn’t express in a song, a TV show, or a two-hour movie. “For so many years I had so many things I wanted to say, so many ideas in my mind. But when you put out one movie a year you sort of get backed up… I’ve been having creative fruit dying on my inner vine.” Last December, Smith joined YouTube and has since used the platform to flex his creative muscles. He went scuba and skydiving for the first time. He did an unboxing video, and got back in the recording booth. He danced atop a bridge in Budapest for the viral challenge to Drake’s “In My Feelings” song. In all, he has more than 40 videos on YouTube. “I’m at home,” Smith said. ”I get so excited to being able to take 30 years of music, TV, and film experience and concentrate it on a two-minute clip.”
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Miette Rivera
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What is Creativity The fact is, that everyone has an innate creative ability. Despite what most people may think, creativity is a skill that everyone can learn and hone on. It’s a skill with huge leverage that allows you to generate enormous amounts of value from relatively little input. How is that so? You’ll have to start by expanding your definition of creativity. Ironically, you have to be creative and ‘think out of the box’ with the definition! Creativity at its heart, is being able to see things in a way that others cannot. It’s a skill that helps you find new perspectives to create new possibilities and solutions to different problems. So, if you encounter different challenges and problems that need solving on a regular basis, then creativity is an invaluable skill to have. At the end of the day, creativity is a skill. It’s not some innate or natural born talent that some have over others. What this means is that creativity and innovation can be practiced and improved upon systematically.A skill can be learned and practiced by applying your strongest learning styles.
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The Beginning
This is your time to be a designer and write your own movie. Fill in all the sections and storyboard your movie then start filming. Your movie doesnt need to be long either! Have fun, be creative!
Type of movie (circle one) animation
superhero
horror
comedy
romance
Location (circle two) city
farm
woods
Auqua Man
outerspace
small town
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Time period (circle one) past
present
future
Main Characters Movie Name
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Plot and Climax
Plot (3-4 sentences)
Climax (3-4 sentences)
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“The darkest nights, produce the brightess stars� Bumblebee
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Story Board
A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.
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Script It Time to write your script! Use the pages pages provided to write out your movie.
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Draw a Title Screen Title screens are the initial titles, usually projected at the beginning of a film, and following the logos of the film studio. They are often an ignored aspect of films.
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you were born to STAND out Bumblebee