Independent Films
Independent Films came about due to the control that Hollywood had on the Film Industry. This total power over who made Films and Movies shut everyone but a select few out of the business.
What really toppled this control were people like Robert Redford and others that gave an outlet to the public, a choice of Films not made in Hollywood. These not made in Hollywood Films and Movies were called independent films and movies.
In the beginning these Indie Films were short due to cost.
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Independent Films
The cost of a full length film was very costly. The cost of the raw 32 mm film could run into the hundreds of thousands even millions of dollars. A camera could run close to a million. This allowed the large film producers total control of the industry.
But with the advent film festivals, giving an outlet to people that were entering into un chartered waters a chance to have the public at large view their independent films and movies. These films were shot with 8 and 16 mm film that was still costly but much cheaper then 32 mm film. These independent films were also a lot shorter then a full length film.
What really changed the movie industry was the video camera. In the beginning these cameras would still cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, they opened the world to TV. Though they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars they still could not be use for big screen movies because the quality could not come close to the quality of 32 mm film.
But as time went on these video cameras became better and cost just droped to a point where any one could become an independent film maker. With software programs that ran on PCs peoplewith little or even no budget could produce indie films. The quality has become so good that today many of your full length films are made with video cmaeras.
Independent films and video movies are now a part of our everyday life. No one understood the power of indie films better then Google who now runs thelargest indie film site on the World Wide Web. Youtube.com now features millions of independent films or videos, if you want to call them that, to the world for free. Anyone with a PC video cam can produce their own independent film and up load it to the world in seconds for free.
Written by G. Parsons copyright © 2005 711net.com
