technology influences film developing: Widescreen

Widescreen is a good example to show how the technology influences film developing. In the early 1950s, the size of screen changed enormous. The main reason is not film producers want to try their best to make film more realistic and more attracting, the real reason is that the amount of film audiences fall sharply, because lots of people move to suburb and they have to abandon the habit which go to watch film once or two per week. So film producers decided to change the size of screen to make watch film become a specialization and advance the amount of audiences. So widescreen has a important mission to deal with the economic crisis in film industry.

In the early widescreen, cinerama used three bioscopes to make screens widely. Audiences can find the two broken lines easily. The most of films belong landscastpe card and topical films.feature film is few. Producers think the early widescreen is not good for story-telling.

To analyse the wildscreen, cinerama (1;2.6) is proved too expensive which depend on the film screen standard. 3-D system is cheaper, but it has lots of technology problems. The simply widescreen (1:2.35) system can be accepted by producers and audience, because it passes muster in three factors: scale, novelty and realism. Panavision (1:2.25) is the most suitable system and used broad in the cinema.