The Esthetics Of Film In The Digital Age

The emergence of sound film and color film is called as two majorrevolutions in film technology field. Since the early21stcentury when the digitaltechnology captured the “territory “of film art in large scale，the digital technology hasequaled to two former revolutions. The digital technology comes along with wide use ofcomputer. On the one hand, due to its convenience and creativeness, the digitaltechnology is beginning to be used to save and transfer the original image and sound inlarge scale. Under such circumstance, the film which is the traditional image-recordingmedium begins to come out of favor. On the other hand, the digital technology begins todominate the development of film art and technology step by step with its unrivaledcreativeness in later image processing. For this reason, it is necessary to assesssystemically the impact and shock the digital technology has on traditional filmaesthetics and theory.Based on the analysis of advanced digital technology which expounds the changesof film aesthetics, this article makes a detailed analysis of film hypothesis general andnarrow conversion, the extension of connotation, and the hypothesis relation changesbetween moviegoers and movie in view of the moviegoers’ psychology. Also, itexpounds in details the shock and effect which the digital technology exerts ontraditional montage and long shot aesthetics and takes a fresh look at the significance ofAndré Bazin’s ontology of the photographic image today.