This is going to be my personal reflection of film and what it has taught me, for the longest time i have had a mentality that just because you are a film maker, an actor or an actress you wont have to work as hard in life as most people do. ive always felt that it was easy, anybody could do it, but i now know i was wrong these people work just as hard at it because not only do they have to think to make a quality movie, they work hard to know what people want, what they need, what needs to be on screen, what needs to be said and all those things. it really hit me that its hard and given the opportunity to make a film, i would probably suck at it.
i learned that film is not something you compleatly make up as you go along, it has elements, it has to be studied its and art. you have to think of the camera, its angles what kind of shots to use to amplify the importance and emotion of a specific scene. becaus if a long shot was used when the character is emoting and you can barely see the face while he/she is wailing her lungs off then it would not be effective, the viwers would just ignore it and they wont even remember that scene when it is in fact relevant to the film. that example shows that the film maker needs to know what angles to use, and how to use them.
apart from that film makers also think about some aspects of production or the mise-en-scene, the editing the audio and its not an easy job, when things are messy and out of place people wont get it and the film would not have made a difference, it beats the purpose of the whole thing.
my favorite example was the one in cinema paradiso as explained before that when Salvator had just given up and he was walking away there were glasses being shatered everything was bright happy and bubly except himand all the shadows the colors even the traditions of that town made that scene so wonderful and effective.
so now when i go see a film i try to look at these things and appreciate the hard work of the people who made them, and appreciate it.