Home movies
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Be Kind Rewind [...] has been repurposed by its director Michel Gondry [in 2012] as an interactive environment [called] the Home Movie Factory, [...] a space in which visitors are provided with all the tools and props to make their own fiction films, and revels in the fun of filmmaking in a self-consciously amateurish way. It is evidence of a new subculture of amateurism." Small-Gauge Storytelling (2013) by Ryan Shand |
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A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and intended for viewing at home by family and friends. Originally, home movies were made on photographic film in formats that usually limited the movie-maker to about three minutes per roll of costly camera film. The vast majority of amateur film formats lacked audio, shooting silent film.
The 1970s saw the advent of consumer camcorders that could record an hour or two of video on one relatively inexpensive videocassette which also had audio. This was followed by digital video cameras that recorded to flash memory, and most recently smartphones with video recording capability, made the creation of home movies easier and much more affordable to the average person.
The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipment often offers features previously only available on professional equipment.
In recent years, clips from home movies have been available to wider audiences through television series such as America's Funniest Home Videos, in Great Britain You've Been Framed! and Internet online video-sharing sites such as YouTube. The popularity of the Internet, and wider availability of high-speed connections has provided new ways of sharing home movies, such as video weblogs (vlogs), and video podcasts.
See also
- Amateur film
- Cinematography
- Event videography
- Underwater videography
- Videography
- Video production
- Wedding videography
