Submitted by Alex Prideaux on 4 September 2008 - 3:10pm.
Cinema is the imagination projected on a screen. It takes us to new worlds, forces us to put our emotions on the line and fills our minds with new and exciting images that in turn oils the audience's imagination. The history of cinema has so much wealth to inspire the new filmmaker, with narrative and technological feats encouraging further exploration of the medium, creating wholly original and unique ideas that will be influential themselves. It seems that cinema can't avoid exciting people - excitement being the tool that will further cinemas legacy. This ability to excite is as fresh as when the Lumiere brothers first filmed workers leaving their factory, and it will continue to do so.
The Brilliance of the Moving Image
Cinema is the imagination projected on a screen. It takes us to new worlds, forces us to put our emotions on the line and fills our minds with new and exciting images that in turn oils the audience's imagination. The history of cinema has so much wealth to inspire the new filmmaker, with narrative and technological feats encouraging further exploration of the medium, creating wholly original and unique ideas that will be influential themselves. It seems that cinema can't avoid exciting people - excitement being the tool that will further cinemas legacy. This ability to excite is as fresh as when the Lumiere brothers first filmed workers leaving their factory, and it will continue to do so.