LB#12

THE POWER OF FILM, VIDEO AND TV IN THE CLASSROOM

"Next to the home and school, I believed  television to have more profound influence on the human race than any other medium of communication" 
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of film making has developed into an art form and industry.

Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating — or indoctrinating — citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue into the language of the viewer.

Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Viewers perceive motion due to a psychological effect called beta movement.

For me the use of film, videos and tv in the classroom is very helpful in a way that with the use of this three machines it in ables the students to know the things happened for the past years especially important things that related to the subject and even to the life of the students or to us now a days. With the help of these three things it in ables us to learn or to know the past and present happenings in our lives or in our world today.