Painting Vs Movie

When i posted the article knowing what you want, one of my close friend read it and posed me to a question. What i wrote in that article was that i found it difficult for me to confine my thoughts to A1 sized space by Painting or Drawing, hence i started writing to improve my narrative skills to exactly convey my thoughts by framing situations which would obviously happen in a story. So finally a story is a story if it is written down on a paper or else it would merely pass through my mind as a thought. So i wrote in that article that i started writing stories giving up painting.

Now the question my dear friend asked me was why would i move to a lesser appealing medium since there is a saying, " A painting can speak a thousand words", why would i give up painting to writing. I told my friend that my total interest was around the magic of Film-making, rather than just writing and to make him understand in his own way about why i started it all with writing, i had to use another saying, " Prior planning prevents poor performance". By this saying i mean that whether it be a Painting or a Movie, both come out of a human mind as thoughts. Now it takes no time to start Painting a thought sparked inside your mind if you are a good Painter. But its not the same case with Film-making.

Film-Making has got much to do than merely waking up in the middle of the night and projecting your thoughts. One got to understand the basic purpose for projecting his thoughts and also how he projects. For a movie, narration is more important than the concept itself because the whole context and the purpose may get diverted, if one cannot narrate what he is been thinking which obviously serves as the purpose for a movie he makes.

Now getting back to what i told my friend about prior planning comes under a study of sound understanding of how to make a film and iam immensely proud of what i have been through on my own. I started it with writing, dont know where i end, but i have tried to gain as much as knowledge i can in my field of interest i.e Film-making and i will still be in the same process.

After my expaination my friend finally asked to tell him the difference between a painting and a movie. Then i gave him such an answer he ended up the conversation and moved onto some other topic. I told him the difference using his weapon against me in the beginning that was, "A painting can speak a thousand words", and what i told him was each frame they set up in capturing a particular scene in movie is always intended to make it look like a painting. So they have some hundreds of angles and shots in a single movie which would represent  a painting, so if a painting can speak thousand words, how long would be the speech coming out from each movie?