How to Shoot a Movie
A movie is a series of pictures. Each image is a still picture, just like a picture you take with a regular camera. But the pictures flash by so fast in a movie. As a result, you see horses run, people talk, and other kinds of motion.___26___Movies are also called films because they are filmed.
Lots of work has to be done before the filming begins. The producer and the director plan how and when they will film each scene.
A movie is filmed scene by scene.___27___The scenes are not usually filmed in the order you see in the movie. Sometimes the weather is bad and an outdoor scene cannot be filmed. Big fancy sets take a long time to build. Scenes using these sets are often shot later. However, you may see them at the beginning of the film.
Sometimes a movie needs special effects. They include small models of huge scenes and cleverly designed sets.___28___Moviemakers use these to film scenes and places that do not exist. They might use a small model of a large building to film the building falling down.
Films can be turned into computer files.___29___They can use computers to make new images. For example, dinosaurs (恐龙) made by computer looked like they were flying in some films.
___30___Many images in Titanic, including crowds of people on the ship, were actually made by computer. In some other films, computers were used to make the actors look as if they were fighting while floating in the air.