Making Cinema

Cinema is an art. It is just like any other art form like painting, sculpturing, and photography. The only difference between cinema and other art forms is that cinema is a visual medium. It is not like literature or a book. Cinema borrows from all art forms of the world to the screen by incorporating drama.

Cinema in the west can be categorized into genres whereas in the Asian sub-continent a narrative is considered according to the 9 rasas given by Maha Rishimuni in the book Natyashrastra.

There are two types of film forms:

Fiction (Not Real/Imaginative):
Example:
Feature films, Ads, short fiction films

Non-fiction (Real):
Example:
News, events which are real which are documented not acted out are called documentary.

Cinema should never be categorized but now days some consider cinema into categories generally in India:

A. Commercial Cinema
B. Art Cinema

You should consider that cinema is challenging like any other art forms. Art takes its time but there accidents and geniuses. Film making is a different ball game is not home videos on 8mm camera or high definition handy cam it has deadlines, require money and skills if you want to be professional in some aspects of film making. It also requires dedication and lots of practice to be good at it. Every one is not born creative some have to learn to understand there gut feeling it takes time to understand an art subconsciously to develop them. It’s not about good or bad cinema some make it big at first film and some have to make innumerable numbers of tries to succeed.

You can not make films just to be famous. A person has to have an agenda or message to convey to the world. Some of the world’s greatest artists or personalities had a tragedy which made to share the world a story like the Harry potter author J. K Rowling after she lost her close family, her mum when she was young.

There fore,a film maker should find a reason to make films and not go for money or fame.

Also Read:
Film making as a Career
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