Still trying to keep you amuzed every day :)

Today I introduce a battleships game, to win you will have to answer some questions about cinematography

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Dear friends, please check out my new crossword. Post your answers in comments!!!

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Movie Preferences Survey

Recently I conducted a survey to find out people's movie preferences, their favourite genres, film directors and the ways they choose and watch movies. The target audience was young people aged 18-20 years. 18 people in total took part in survey. Here are the results I got.

The results of the survey show that people like watching movies with deep meaning at home, no matter if it's Russian or foreign. And genres can be various.

Service used for creating and conducting a survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/

Please take a survey about movie preferences
https://ru.surveymonkey.com/r/N8HMYQY
Thank you

A mindmap of famous film directors and their best films

Annotated Webliography from my blog about movies 

1. https://www.kinopoisk.ru 

Kinopoisk is a Russian-language cite containing movie reviews. It also provides information about the people who created this or that movie, the awards it got, the amout of money it earned and rating that people gave it. If you're a movie lover, that's definitely a must-see site for you. 

2. https://www.netflix.com/ru/ 

Netflix is a streaming service that allows our customers to watch a wide variety of award-winning TV shows, movies, documentaries, and more on thousands of internet-connected devices. With Netflix, you can enjoy unlimited viewing of our content without having to watch a single commercial. There's always something new to discover, and more TV shows and movies are added every month! 

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

Of course, Wikipedia. That's a cite where you can find any information about any movie you want. Also, some pages provide information about the process of the movie making itself, so you can also learn the theory of cinematography. 

4. https://www.ranker.com 

Want to watch a movie but are not sure if it will be worth your time? Just visit this site and read thousands of reviews and make sure this movie is good or not. 

5. https://www.rottentomatoes.com 

Rotten Tomatoes and the Tomatometer score are the world’s most trusted recommendation resources for quality entertainment. As the leading online aggregator of movie and TV show reviews from critics, this site provides fans with a comprehensive guide to what’s Fresh – and what’s Rotten – in theaters and at home.

Check out my new video about cinematography!

Basic Netiquette Rules for Bloggers

1. Real People Take Priority - Don't be on your phone when talking to somebody in real life, it's really irritating.
2. If You Wouldn't Say it to Someone's Face, Don't Say it Online - You might get in trouble for that. Say online only things you're sure in and that are not insulting.
3. If You Wouldn't Show it in Public, Don't Share it Online - Personal stuff must stay personal, keep that in mind
4. Don't Repost Without Checking the Facts - You should check the information that you are posting in your blog not to fool someone
5. Respect People's Privacy - just like your private stuff must stay personal, other people expect the same thing from you. Do not post "bad" pictures of other people if they don't want you to.
6. Do not violate copyright law or intellectual property secrets - that's illegal
7. Do not post obsene material - that's illegal as well. You might get in trouble for that. 
8. Just because it's free, it doesn't mean it's safe - some websites might try to steal your personal information by making you click a fishing link, don't let that happen. 

Done by Roma Kosulin and Lera Metikova
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The Founding Fathers of cinematogrophy

Auguste and Louis Lumiere were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. This first screening on 22 March 1895 took place in Paris, at the "Society for the Development of the National Industry", in front of an audience of 200 people – among which Léon Gaumont, then director of the company the Comptoir géneral de la photographie. The main focus of this conference by Louis Lumière were the recent developments in the photograph industry, mainly the research on polychromy (colour photography). It was much to Lumière's surprise that the moving black-and-white images retained more attention than the coloured stills photographs. The American Woodville Latham had screened works of film 2 months later on 20 May 1895. The first public screening of films at which admission was charged was a program by the Skladanowsky brothers that was held on 1 November 1895, in Berlin. The Lumières gave their first paid public screening on 28 December 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris. This history-making presentation featured 10 short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).

Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.

It is believed their first film was recorded that same year (1895) with Léon Bouly's cinématographe device, which was patented the previous year. The date of the recording of their first film is in dispute. In an interview with Georges Sadoul given in 1948, Louis Lumière tells that he shot the film in August 1894. This is questioned by historians (Sadoul, Pinel, Chardère) who consider that a functional Lumière camera didn't exist before the end of 1894, and that their first film was recorded 19 March 1895, and then publicly projected 22 March at the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in Paris. The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières.

The Lumières went on tour with the cinématographe in 1896, visiting Brussels (the first place a film was played outside Paris on the Galleries Saint-Hubert on 1 March 1896), Bombay, London, Montreal, New York City and Buenos Aires.

In 1896, only a few months after the initial screenings in Europe, films by the Lumiere Brothers were shown in Egypt, first in the Tousson stock exchange in Alexandria on 5 November 1896 and then in the Hamam Schneider (Schneider Bath) in Cairo.

                             A shot from the first movie in history "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station"  

The moving images had an immediate and significant influence on popular culture with L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat (literally, "the arrival of a train at La Ciotat", but more commonly known as Arrival of a Train at a Station) and Carmaux, défournage du coke (Drawing out the coke). Their actuality films, or actualités, are often cited as the first, primitive documentaries. They also made the first steps towards comedy film with the slapstick of L'Arroseur Arrosé.                                                                     

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