Trends in the Film Industry

 

The film industry is constantly evolving and growing, incorporating new techniques, disposing of outdated fads, and revisiting trends to bring older techniques back to life. Here are some of them.

• Handheld footage: Handheld footage, also known as found footage, has become common in indie films and horror flicks that aim to give a slightly off-kilter feel for their audiences, evoking the eerie feelings typical of thrillers.  Films with iconic handheld camerawork include Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, and the Sci-Fi, thriller Chronicle.

• Celebrating and incorporating diversity; in recent times, films with diverse characters have proven to be popular among audiences. From casting female leads in typically male roles to incorporating more racial diversity into films that may have included a primarily white cast in previous years, the film industry is becoming more diverse all the time, allowing for greater flexibility and creativity in how films are made. Examples can be seen in the Ghostbusters remake with an all-female cast and the 2018 Ocean’s Eight with an entirely female cast.

• Smaller budget films are being debuted online: Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube, are seeing a drastic increase in the films being produced explicitly – or initially – on these platforms. Not only are there “Netflix Original” and “Amazon Original” TV shows, there have been feature films featured on the websites as well.

 

 

References

 

5 Emerging Trends in the Film Industry. (2017, September 13). Retrieved November 13, 2017, from https://www.lafilm.edu/blog/5-emerging-trends-film-industry/

 

Six ways the film business is changing. (2017, January 04). Retrieved November 13, 2017, from https://stephenfollows.com/film-business-is-changing/