Cinematography

Cinematography

 Cinematography is the art of motion picture photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferres to some image sensor or light-sensitive material inside a movie camera. 



Notes:

Cinematic language: 

The visual vocabulary of film

Composed of myriad intergrated techniques and concepts

connects the viewer to the story while deliberately concealling the means by which it does so.

What is a movie:

A popular entertaonment

A narrative 

A presentation of a story affected by cultural differences

An art form influenced by less conventional approaches and emerging technologies

Analysis-The act of taking something complicated apart to figure it out what it is made and how it all fits together

Shot: Unbroken span of action casted by an uninterupted run or motion-picture camera scene: Multiple shots edited together to tell a part of the story: A new scene start in a new location.

Sequence: zmultiple scenes arranged together to tell a part of the story

invisibility: Is created through editing techniques

Fade out/Fade-in: Last shot of scene grows gradually dark until the screen is rendered black for a moment.

Invisibility Editing: Is editing you cant see.

Continually of screen direction: moving in one direction for multiple shots.

Indentify shots and angles

Summary/Reflection

When I did that it helped me be able be able to see the different type of angles and shots I can do and it had me thinking of all the stuff that you have to do in cinematography to perfect your movie.

Sources

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