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their class, and for the teacher a movie can be used as an alternative method in teaching that is suitable with their classroom situation.
Another opinion about movie given by Hornby 1995: 434, he defines film or movie as story, etc. recorded as a set of moving pictures to be shown on
television or the cinema. Movie is form of entertainment that enacts a story by sequence of images
giving by the illusion of continuous movement www.thefreedictionary.comfilm. Here, movie is treated as a form of entertainment. Meanwhile, Allen and Gomery
1985: 136 state that movie is an art which portrays man‟s interpretation of life.
Movie as an art and movie as a form of entertainment are both right. The main difference between them is the goal. The goal of movie as entertainment media is
to entertain the viewers. Meanwhile, the goal of movie as an art is to give particular messages to the viewers. Since movie gives particular messages to the
viewers, the writer have a tendency to appreciate movie as an art. From the definitions above, it can be concluded that movies or films are
series of images that are projected onto a screen to create the illusion of motion recorded as a set of moving images to be shown on television or cinema in order
to gives particular messages to the viewers.
3. Types of Movie
There are many types of movie made for different purposes. According to Bordwell and Thompson 1997: 50, types of movie are broken down into:
a Documentary movie
A documentary movie supports to present factual information about the world outside the movie. As a type of movies, documentaries present themselves
as factually trustworthy. According to Bordwell and Thompson 1997: 44 there are two types of documentary movie, they are;
1 Compilation movie: produced by assembling images from archival
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2 Direct Cinema: recording an on going event „as it happens‟ with
minimal interference by the moviemaker b
Fictional movie A fictional movie presents imaginary beings, places or events. Yet, if a
movie is fictional, that does not mean that it is completely unrelated actuality. For one thing, not everything shown or implied by the fiction movies
needs to be imaginary, a typical fictional film stages its events; they are designed, planned, rehearsed, filmed and refilmed. In a fictional film the agents are
portrayed or depicted by an intermediate, not photographed directly in documentary.
c Animated movie
Animated movies are distinguished from live-action ones by the unusual kinds of work that are done at production stage. Animation movies do not do
continuously filming outdoor action in the real time, but they create a series of images by shooting one frame at a time.
d Experimental or avant-garde movie
Some filmmakers set out to create films that challenge orthodox notion of what movies can show and how it can show it.
Experimental films are made for many reasons, they are: 1
The filmmakers want to express personal experience or view point 2
The filmmakers may also want to explore some possibilities of the medium it self
3 The experimental filmmakers may tell no story but they may create a
fictional story that will usually challenge the viewer
Meanwhile David and Kristin 1997: 42-51 propose the kinds of movie are as follow.
a. Animated Films
They generally consist of drawing and paintings by artist called cartoons.
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b. Documentary Films
Documentary films present information on many subjects. They show men life and work throughout the world. They explain events in science and processes
in technology, and illustrate various aspects of life in nature.
c. Experimental and avant-garde Films
Experimental films are made for many reasons. The film maker may wish to express personal experiences or viewpoints in ways that would seem eccentric
in mainstream context. The film maker may also use staging to express distinct feelings or ideas. Any sort of footage may be used for several avant-garde films.
4. Advantages of Movie
