How hard is art

Film is the most difficult medium of art to work with. With painting you just have a canvas and paint and its deigned to be seen, music its to be heard, but film crosses boundaries and encompassing sight and sound to tell a story. And with doing that there are so many things that can go wrong. But what makes a good film? I don’t think that question can be answered with just one answer; I think that it is collaboration on many different aspects.
First there needs to be a good story. Without a story people just simply don’t care. A film can’t look gorgeous and doesn’t say anything (Transformers). There has to be emotion and people need to be able to relate to what the characters are going threw. There has to be that bond.
Next I think that the next important aspect is the visual elements have to be entertaining. Transformers did a great job of making a great looking film. But its not enough, you have to be able to toss in a good story (Minority report).
Acting, cheesy acting just kills anything that can happen. Art is a reflection of life and so it needs to be done well. There are always exceptions to this thought though. In very stylistic films cheesy acting works. In the movie Secondhand Lion the main character is retelling of past events, the acting was corny but looked great.
The biggest thing is sound. Sound is so important to film. One screw up and it can kill great films. And it is so simple to mess up sound, if lips don’t match what people are saying. If there is a constant annoying hum, if the sound effects and music don’t fit, if the people are to soft and the audience has to strain to hear, or if its to loud. And the list goes on and on. Bad sound can kill a film instantly. But good sound can create moods and feelings and make the film that much better. Requiem for a Dream used sound to help create a sense of chaos and panic. To me those our (generally) the four major things that will make or break a movie. The most important is sound, talk to anyone in film and they will harp on sound. The hardest thing to get (with no money) is acting. Being able to mold all of the different aspects is what makes film such a hard art form.