Trip to the Moon?

Technology has its way of improving as years go by. The rapid development of new inventions has affected the method things are done or how it is presented to us. As time goes by the old devices were replaced with advanced gadgets. The era of handheld transceiver (more known to be as a walkie-talkie), typewriters and family computers is now replaced with an epoch of smartphones, laptops and tablets. Innovations like these do not only take place on the daily apparatuses that we use but even on the field of arts and mass communication.

A very good example is the way films are being done today than as it was before. At present we have the technology of animating objects using the power of computer. With this any visual effect that we can think of can be made possible. As for the part of the film production team, it is somehow easier for them to produce the movie with having less effort in manually drawing or painting each frame of their animated sequence.

The movie “Trip to the Moon” is one of those films that could be considered as vintage. It’s all about a group of men who traveled to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They were captured by moon-men, escaped, and returned to the earth. It was created on the year 1902. Imagining how limited the technology the people only had before I must say that they really put a great effort in creating such film. The movie is in complete black and white but some says that it was already restored and was given color. The movie was purposely shown to our class in black and white which is somehow new to most us since present time movies are very much filled with vibrant colors. There were also no dialogues in the movie. The only audio that you can hear is the background music that runs for the entire film which sets the mood or emotion being portrayed in each scene. The graphics were not that clear and crisp. However, the details on each element of the movie were very precise and well created.

Improvement never ends. Technology will always continue to have advancement in terms of efficiency and quality. Comparing the way the movie “Trip to the Moon” was done to how present films are, we can say that there might come a time when movies like Cathcing Fire, Frozen or The Hobbit would be considered  to be vintage also because of the new and more advanced way of film making technology that could be available in the future.

Dela Cruz, Jeff Denver F.
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