Footage
In the film and video production, the term footage or footage the uncut film ( camera negative or copies thereof) that is used for editing, or in general, any unspecified amount of film ( " animators are paid according to footage or footage" = the payment depends on the amount of the animated film ).
The term originated footage in English usage by the fact that 35-mm film was measured in feet (plural of foot) and frames to German in feet and frames. A foot contains exactly 16 frames and corresponded to a second Vorführdauer the silent film era.
Stock footage
As stock footage video archive footage is called that comes in new productions for use, regardless of whether it has already been used in previous productions or not. Are known, for example, the early Tarzan movies, whose ancestral jungle recordings largely of such archives. The recordings used for back-projections from moving cars often came from the archive. A very pronounced use of archive material can be found in the Star Trek series. Many of the animated spaceship sequences were used, among other reasons of cost, several times. Thus one finds, for example, spaceship scenes or landscape animations (planet Romulus from the movie Nemesis in the "new " series Enterprise ( ENT ) ) from the movies in the series.
The old term " film footage " is gone out of fashion since footage is in fast digital access; it described the practice to identify suitable sites in uncut rolls of film clamped by intervening strips of paper just " bracketing " the desired scene.
Archive material is now a separate product in the film trade. Television stations act in particular for news material. News agencies such as Reuters (ITN ), Associated Press Television News ( APTN ), or CNN and the BBC are the world market leader. Also for magazine articles and in special areas, such as films with historical footage, TV series or even animal films, archive material is often used in the production of new television programs.
In other sectors of the film industry, such as commercial film, corporate film, or to a lesser extent, feature film, there are more buyers of footage. The promotional film industry always puts footage more often as a basis for especially creative productions that produce, for example, with complex compositing method unusual pictorial compositions in post - production.
The largest players in this segment are the Munich-based Frame Pool AG in Germany, Getty Images and Corbis Motion in the U.S. and ITN and BBC Motion Gallery in the UK. Worldwide, the film material market is estimated to have a size of about U.S. $ 200 million ( 2005). Reliable figures are, however, difficult to ascertain. Getty Images alone has a turnover of over U.S. $ 30 million with footage. The digitization of film production, from HDTV cameras to digital post-production - the former Editor - is greatly broaden the use of footage in the coming years. Success in this market are agencies and archives that can offer over the internet their holdings online. The providers are pursuing different licensing models. This distinction is similar to the photographic market, mainly between managed licensing (also referred to as "rights managed" or "RM ") and royalty free ( also referred to as "royalty free " or " RF" ) footage. For example, provide frame pool and Getty Images under rights-managed footage in which the license fee of the extent and manner of use depends. In addition, there are vendors such as iStockphoto and Pond5 in USA and among other new European suppliers, such as clip Dealer, Clipcanvas Footage and online that offer royalty- free stuff. Unlike managed licensing footage, here's a one-time license fee is charged and the material can then be used as a rule in time and place indefinitely and in various media and industries.
Asked particular recordings of high artistic value, high design originality and capture images that require to realize a high technical expenditure, such as aerial photographs, recordings from remote regions of the world and of course the wide range of historical archives - from the days of the Lumiere Brothers.
Today there are camera people who only produce for the film material market and can live from the royalties of the archive material sales, if they like a photographer, represented by an estimated market Agency.
Found footage
Found footage means a special genre mainly experimental films made wholly or partly from footage that was not turned by the filmmaker himself. There are different ways of dealing with the material, its composition and the nature of its appropriation and reinterpretation. "Found footage" means " found footage ," the found footage film is thus designed with foreign footage from archival footage, Archival, amateur films, corporate films, documentary and feature film images.