{"id":78689,"date":"2016-07-15T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=78689"},"modified":"2016-07-15T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:02:43","slug":"what-is-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"take-a-look-at-a-really-interesting-breakdown-of-film-stock-and-how-moving-images-are-captured-and-processed\">Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.<\/h2>\n<p>The new web series <em><a title=\"What Is...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXLcTHvyontjPugZrIs_wFA\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">What Is&#8230;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0tackles the history of film. Not the history of <em>movies<\/em>, but of the actual <strong>film<\/strong> <strong>stock<\/strong> used to capture movies. From the perforations along the side of the strip, to the individual frames themselves, take a closer look at the individual parts of <strong>film<\/strong> <strong>stock <\/strong>via<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"TheWhatIsGuy\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWhatIsGuy\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">TheWhatIsGuy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqSbmw9u1CE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video does a great job at showing the intricate details in a simplistic way. You&#8217;ll see how film with an audio strip will have either a magnetic or optical waveform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78691\" src=\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg\" alt=\"Film_Audio\" width=\"755\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg 755w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=300,140 300w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=277,129 277w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=359,167 359w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=543,253 543w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=560,261 560w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Film_Audio.jpg?resize=150,70 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also get a really neat breakdown of <strong>frames<\/strong> and the different sizes of <strong>frames<\/strong> in the various film formats. Super-interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78693\" src=\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg\" alt=\"Frames\" width=\"755\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg 755w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=300,139 300w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=277,128 277w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=359,166 359w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=543,252 543w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=560,260 560w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Frames.jpg?resize=150,70 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What Is&#8230;<\/em> also tackled film negatives in a separate bonus video. You&#8217;ll get a breakdown of color theory, and how it&#8217;s applied to creating color film.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkXAaDm3-tc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Did you find this in-depth look at the history of film interesting? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":78692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3843,715],"tags":[734,536,857],"class_list":["post-class-post-78689","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-filmmaking-2","post-class-category-industry","post-class-tag-film","post-class-tag-filmmaking","post-class-tag-industry-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/premiumbeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelmaherwrites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-15T12:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-07-15T13:02:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/What_Is_Film.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"584\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Maher\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@maherfilmsdfw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Premiumbeat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Maher\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/\",\"name\":\"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-15T12:20:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-07-15T13:02:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/46ee2115c899350991e1e0e56237fb4d\"},\"description\":\"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Filmmaking\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/category\/filmmaking-2\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/46ee2115c899350991e1e0e56237fb4d\",\"name\":\"Michael Maher\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0678a68e3094d2003c159308eb31d88f378fb430919929df4527bfa9e32714?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0678a68e3094d2003c159308eb31d88f378fb430919929df4527bfa9e32714?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Michael Maher\"},\"description\":\"Michael is an all-around tech and movie nerd who enjoys shooting, editing, and especially watching films. He began making films at 5 years old with his dad's VHS camcorder. Michael and his younger brother have been collaborating on film and video projects ever since.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelmaherwrites\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maherfilmsdfw\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/author\/michaelmaher\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film","description":"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film","og_description":"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/","og_site_name":"The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/premiumbeat","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelmaherwrites\/","article_published_time":"2016-07-15T12:20:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-07-15T13:02:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":584,"url":"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/07\/What_Is_Film.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Michael Maher","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@maherfilmsdfw","twitter_site":"@Premiumbeat","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Maher","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/","url":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/","name":"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-07-15T12:20:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-07-15T13:02:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/46ee2115c899350991e1e0e56237fb4d"},"description":"Take a look at a really interesting breakdown of film stock and how moving images are captured and processed.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/what-is-film\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Filmmaking","item":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/category\/filmmaking-2\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Film"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/","name":"The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/46ee2115c899350991e1e0e56237fb4d","name":"Michael Maher","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0678a68e3094d2003c159308eb31d88f378fb430919929df4527bfa9e32714?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0678a68e3094d2003c159308eb31d88f378fb430919929df4527bfa9e32714?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Maher"},"description":"Michael is an all-around tech and movie nerd who enjoys shooting, editing, and especially watching films. He began making films at 5 years old with his dad's VHS camcorder. Michael and his younger brother have been collaborating on film and video projects ever since.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelmaherwrites\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/maherfilmsdfw"],"url":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/author\/michaelmaher\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/What_Is_Film.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab9JK-ktb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78701,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689\/revisions\/78701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}