Interview-Based Report Essay
Name: Prue Middleton
Student Number: S2917605
Unit Code: CMM10
Unit Name: Screen History and Research
My tutor: Dr Danielle Zuvela
Unit Convenor: Dr David Baker
Assignment Name: Interview Based Report
Assignment Number: 1
Word Count: 1500
Due Date: Friday week 5
Extension Granted: No
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Interview Based Report
Cinema in Great Britain from the 1920’s onwards became one of the most popular forms of relaxation and entertainment. Today, cinema plays a similar role in people’s lives, yet there are many differences and few similarities between the viewing experience and industry between the past and present.
One woman, Barbara can recall her experiences of attending the cinema in her home town of Doncaster. Her experience of cinema …show more content…
(Belton 1990, pp. 187). Moviegoers were also drawn to other, cheaper forms of ‘mass entertainment’ such as theme parks. The wide-screen revolution in cinema viewing attempted to break down the narrow confines of the early cinema screen, by creating a panoramic space of spectacle, that slowly encases the audience aimed to lure audiences back to the picture theatre (Belton 1990, pp. 1985). The change in viewing also represented a dramatic shift in the film industry’s notion of what a motion picture was or should be, shifting the primary function from entertainment to also include that of recreation. Audiences were no longer a group of passive spectators but now active participants in the film experience (at least this is the relationship the film industry pursued). However, Barbara described her CinemaScope experience as
Student Number: S2917605
Unit Code: CMM10
Unit Name: Screen History and Research
My tutor: Dr Danielle Zuvela
Unit Convenor: Dr David Baker
Assignment Name: Interview Based Report
Assignment Number: 1
Word Count: 1500
Due Date: Friday week 5
Extension Granted: No
(If yes) Extension Date: na
(If yes) Extension Date: na
Interview Based Report
Cinema in Great Britain from the 1920’s onwards became one of the most popular forms of relaxation and entertainment. Today, cinema plays a similar role in people’s lives, yet there are many differences and few similarities between the viewing experience and industry between the past and present.
One woman, Barbara can recall her experiences of attending the cinema in her home town of Doncaster. Her experience of cinema …show more content…
(Belton 1990, pp. 187). Moviegoers were also drawn to other, cheaper forms of ‘mass entertainment’ such as theme parks. The wide-screen revolution in cinema viewing attempted to break down the narrow confines of the early cinema screen, by creating a panoramic space of spectacle, that slowly encases the audience aimed to lure audiences back to the picture theatre (Belton 1990, pp. 1985). The change in viewing also represented a dramatic shift in the film industry’s notion of what a motion picture was or should be, shifting the primary function from entertainment to also include that of recreation. Audiences were no longer a group of passive spectators but now active participants in the film experience (at least this is the relationship the film industry pursued). However, Barbara described her CinemaScope experience as