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Description: The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/famefocus08211 Just as the evolution of farming methods and machinery led to the agricultural and industrial revolution, the evolution of technology has given birth to the visual effects revolution, which in turn has massively changed how a film is conceived, envisioned, and realized. Like the music in this video? Get it on Google Play:► bit.ly/2F10vbs ◄ Get it on itunes: ► apple.co/2ENGfu9 ◄ Listen on Spotify: ► spoti.fi/3boTfCl ◄ Buy it on Amazon: ► amzn.to/2QVJZfk ◄ The Silent Era. The silent film era saw the birth and growth of Hollywood and the founding of various major film studios and toward the end of the 1920s the industry was booming, however, a change was coming and the possibility of recording sound meant that soon the audience would be able to hear the story as well as see it. Initially, all the major studios (except Warner Bros) rejected this new evolution and refused to use it, but evolution continues whether you want it to or not. The Talkies. With the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, everything changed. The film was a major success and forced Hollywood to accept the change and evolve with it. Famous actors found themselves out of work because their voice didn't sound nice or their acting was too "Over-the-top", and filmmakers found themselves working with an entirely new medium, where the films they wrote and planned for, didn't have to have a simplistic storyline, their shots didn't have to be full of action, and their stories could actually be told, and not just represented. Technicolor. Just as Hollywood began to get to grips with the sound revolution, a new invention was about to change, once again, the way filmmakers envisioned their films. Before Technicolor, in order to add color to a film you basically had to paint or tint each individual frame, this was time-consuming and the result looked unnatural. The three-strip Technicolor process used three reels of film in the camera, three different color filters, one Cyan, one Magenta, and one yellow, and a prism that refracted one-third of the light entering the lens through each separate filter and onto each separate reel, thus creating three different color shots, that, when combined, gave us a color image whose yellows and reds were particularly brilliant. The Technicolor cameras were very heavy though and required a tripod, they also required a lot of light, this meant that films were written and planned for, with a view to filming on an indoor set and in well-lit conditions and the fact that the reds and yellow looked so good, meant that they almost always included a fire scene in the script. Birth of Modern VFX As color film evolved so did Visual FX. Before color film, Filmmakers were basically limited to using clever cuts, stop-motion, matte painting, multiple exposures, and rear projection. This limited the effects they could achieve and therefore limited their creativity when writing and planning their films. With color came the bluescreen, Now, actors, puppets, and models could be filmed in front of a bluescreen on one plate and composited onto a different background plate later. This and many other advances in both technology and methodology meant that filmmakers now, could not only, for example, convincing place actors filmed on a set in Hollywood on a background filmed in Mexico, it meant they could convincingly place any model or puppet they could create on any background they could imagine. This led to the film industry's Science Fiction Era. CGI. The Invention of the computer was the next step in the evolution of VFX and it revolutionized the film industry, but also fractured the special effects industry. Initially, computers were used for compositing and lighting and some very limited 3D animations, but as hardware and software evolved, the boundaries of what was possible to do with CGI expanded and the digital revolution began. As with every revolution in the film industry, the digital one was met with skepticism and rejection. Firstly from the filmmakers who viewed it with a kind of snobbery that stated, if it's not done "in-camera" and "on set" it somehow has less merit, and secondly by the special effects industry itself who saw it as an "If the worst comes to worst" option. Sadly these attitudes still linger to this day, but as CGI has progressed the majority have learned to embrace it. Nowadays filmmakers don't have to write their films whilst thinking about how they could possibly be filmed. This video was sponsored by Skillshare. Read more here: famefocus.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/focusfame