Cinematography
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1. What is cinematography?
The definition of cinematography is the art and process of movie photography. Cinematography consists of the decisions made about Camera angles, shots, movements and lighting, camera filters and lenses when shooting a movie scene. |
2. We will examine a good slideshow PDF that goes over cinematography is here:
https://www.cs.williams.edu/~morgan/cs371-f14/reading/cinematography.pdf 3. Possible assignment: Often in Film schools they have students create a "continuous bouncing ball film." See below. We could do this as an assignment if student's want. 4. Alternative - do Camera Shots/Angles Assignment below as a class to understand cinematography. |
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camerashots_-_best_one_to_use.ppt | |
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camera_shots_and_angles_assignment_2020.docx | |
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5. To comprehend Cinematography and its significance - let's look at James Bond. The James Bond Franchise was slowly fading in interest and with Daniel Craig the producers wanted to reboot the franchise, but realized an actor was not the only key - they needed to approach the cinematography and how they filmed it in a radical new way. Check out this video clip which demonstrates the evolution of cinematography in Bond Movies.
The Power of Cuts / Shots and not cutting - American Cinema Vs Chinese Cinema
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A couple of video clips on how things were filmed and on Cinematography
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