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2.5: Demonstrate understanding of narrative conventions in media texts within a medium Narrative Narrative Film Narrative The first audience to experience a moving film did so in 1895. The film, by the Lumiere brothers was called “Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895)” Their film “Train Entering the Gare de Ciotat (1895)” caused people to faint with fear as the train loomed from the screen into the theatre auditorium. These films did not carry a story or narrative - they merely showed a moving image on the screen. Film Narrative August (1862-1954) Louis (1864-1948) Lumiere Film Narrative - Melies Realising the potential of a good story George Melies ( 1861-1938) utilised film to create fantastic stories that took his characters and audiences to the moon and beyond. Melies The changing process of cinema The changes in film process involve several factors. George Huaco indentifies four factors: Current events achievements. (political climate) The creativity of the film-makers who influenced the team of crafts-people involed in the films. The technical developments that could be exploited. The capacity of a sufficient audience to appreciate the results. Changing process of cinema The division between film and movie creates two views of quality and purpose. MOVIES = This is a commercial differentiation = popular entertainment with a mass circulation of copies of the movie. The audience being largely passive. . The product of an industry dominated by the producer (money) in which there is no individual film-maker but a team under the producer’s control. (The studio system.) The director is hired to create the movie from the script. The final version is, however, the responsibility of the Producer and Editor. The director of a movie is known as: metteur en scene = an interpreter of a score / script. Changing process of cinema The Film on the other hand is an individual creation. Often defined as being where a limited number of copies are in circulation - probabl