IMAX theatres
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 471.
Exercise 45. Complete the text with the correct forms.
Exercise 44. What is important to you in a film?
Exercise 43. Speak about yourself as a student.
What is your favourite subject?
Exercise 42. Find the names of university subjects and translate them into Russian.
- Put the items in order of importance
- crucial a. acting
- extremely important b. direction
- very important c. set decoration
- important d. camerawork
- not very important e. costumes
- not important f. stunts
- In pairs. Compare your lists. Use these expressions to state your opinion:
In my opinion …
From my point of view …
Personally, I think …
If you ask me …
e.g. Personally, I think direction is crucial. – I agree with you on this one.
In my opinion, stunts are very important. – I'm not so sure about this one.
If you ask me, stunts aren't important.
Today, cinema audience (1)________(to be) much smaller and usually younger than the audience of the «golden age». Many of the «picture palaces» (2) __________ (to be) now multi-screen cinemas with four or five small cinemas inside one building.
Today a film (3)__________ (to appear) on video, and then on TV. But some old films (4)______________(not, look) so good on TV. Cowboy films (5) ________ (to be) an example of this. The wonderful scenery in films like “How the West Was Won” (6)_________(to need) a large screen to show it. Television can't do it. For many people, the cinema (7)_________ (to be) still the only place to watch a film.
One of the cinema's newest ideas (8)___________ (to be) IMAX projection. A screen 19 metres high and 15 metres wide, and excellent sound, (9)__________ (to make) spectators feel that they (10)_______(to be) “really there”.
IMAX DOME theatres (11)____________(to have) a big, 30 metre screen which (12)_________(to put) the film-goer right in the centre of everything that is happening in the film. And with IMAX 3D, people (13) _____________ (to be happy) to try and touch what they see. It (14)_______(to look) so real! The difference between the IMAX experience and watching a film at a conventional cinema is the feeling that you (15)________(not, watch) a film, you (16)________ (to feel) as if you (17)_________(to be) actually there inside the action. A spectator (18)______________(to enjoy) every minute of the film, (19)______________(to be sorry for) the character, (20)______________(to be afraid of) his enemies, (21)______________ (to be ready) to help him. So he (22) ________________ (to be more interested in) the action.
There are nearly 150 IMAX theatres in different countries all over the world, and their number (23)____________(to grow) every year.
So this is cinema today.