Cinematography

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Film App Flashcards on Cinematography, created by Hansa Luximan on 27/01/2014.
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Cinematography Importance of visual. Language of senses. Process of capturing moving images on film or other medium. Camera work, quality of image but purpose of film should not be ignored. Communicating sensually or intellectually.
Shot Uninterrupted run of camera, short or long as long as it doesn't exceed time limits of medium (10 min)
Take Number of times a shot is taken
Setup Camera position and everything associated with it. Cinematographer's job : 1. Cinematographic properties (film stock, lighting, lenses) 2. Framing of shot 3. Speed and length of shot 4. Special effects
Crew -Director of Photography -Camera operators -Asst. Camerapersons (1st : lenses, supporting equipment and material for shooting, 2nd : slate to identify each shot, camera reports, feeds stock into magazines) -Electricity and lighting -Gaffer (chief electrician) + Best Boy (1sst electrician) -Grips, people working both with camera crew and electrical crew.
Cinematic point of view focus of what we are seeing + why it's being shown that way -Objective (distance, not asked to participate, static camera, emotional distance, recording straight forwards, natural, normal types of positioning and angles) -Subjective (emotional intensity, Alfred Hitchcock, elaborate camera movement, suspense, forced to become character, moving camera) -Indirect Subjective (character looking at something -> eye-line shot shows us subjectively what he's looking at, intimately involved, but not participant, emotional reaction) -Director's Interpretive (chooses what to show us but also how it's seen, special angles and lenses, slow, fast motion, emotional attitude, style, tone, forced to react)
Framing Attaching masks to the camera or printer's lens. Intolerance, DW Griffith, thin vertical slice. Orson Welles, iris to add nostalgia. Split-screen for telephone conversations.
Angle frame positions, straight-on angle, high angle, low angle.
Level parallel to horizon, if tipped then canted. Orson Welles uses it.
Height Ankle-height.
Distance Framing, sense of being far away or close. -Extreme long shot, long shot : Barely visible -Medium long shot : knees up -medium shot : waist up -medium close-up : chest up -close up : small detail, expression -extreme close up : single portion of face
Mobile framing pan - vertical axis, tilt - horizontal axis, tracking, dolly shot - follow movement, crane shot - above ground level, up or down, hand-held camera,
Time Lapse Photography Compressing time = time lapse, one frame is exposed at regular intervals, takes hours or weeks.
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