THE ROLE OF FILM PRODUCTION IN THE SOCIETY

  THE ROLE OF FILM PRODUCTION IN THE SOCIETY

The world of film is very, very competitive. You may have the best movie idea of all time, but if your script isn’t formatted correctly, there’s a high chance it will never even get read.

. I think the film and its innovations sometimes have to catch up to society but sometimes it leads society too. Movies are stories; movies are people who come out with ideas about something they want to say something they want to tell someone.

 Movies are a form of communication and that communication, those stories, comes from societies- not just where society is presently and what it's doing now- but where society has been. It's been that way for as long as movies have been around!

Movies are different things to different people, that's what is so incredible about them. To many, movies are about escapism. Movies are about sitting in a theatre, watching something- watching a story unfold with people you don't know- watching that happen and emoting an emotion knowing that for those two hours or so, when one walks into that theatre, he/she don't have to worry about what is going on outside. They lose themselves in what they are watching. Movies can educate too. They tell us things we never could have known. They tell us things we might not know, and they give us a way to explore the past, the present and the future.

Movies have become popular because the images move... They're not static. Theatre and the images move. As the frames move and tell a story, it is that movement which emotionally connects you. To me, this is fundamental about why movies have become global. Every country has stories to tell, about their past, their culture now, and views of what the future will look like through their eyes. What hadn't happened for many years, and what started to happen relatively recently was a couple of things. Firstly, movie theatres began to be built all over the world. In many parts of the world, the phenomenon of movie theatres is only ten or fifteen years old. These theatres give people a place to go, to escape, to learn.

Before that, society had the stories, but they didn't really have the places to go and enjoy them like that. And all of a sudden, the business part of film allowed people to invest and make movies- and also have somewhere to make their money back, in theatres! Then the internet came along.

The world is changing now faster than you and I change our clothes! It's constantly changing, and that constantly changing world is going to induce more movie-making. If you go on YouTube, you can see the most talented young people all over the world who take a camera and start to film ideas they have and put them online. They're going to be the future of the industry. The internet has connected the world together so a person in Mexico can put a movie on the internet which can be instantly seen all around the world, you simply couldn't have done that before, we also  we learn so much about society from their movies. I believe, personally, that movies allow people to be taken places they can't get to on their own- be it travel, or culture, or learning. Of seeing your writing on the big screen.

                                                                            By: Faith Ombathi