Cinematography
Cinematography features-
Camera Shots
Camera Angles
Camera Movements
Lighting
Low angle allows viewer to sympathise
High angle emphasizes the fear
Lighting
Key Light: Main light on which placement of all others is based. Usually the brightest.
Fill Light: Fills in the shadows created by key light. Eliminates dark shadows on the subject.
Back Light: Illuminates the back of the subject to create three dimensions. Subject will pop out from the background.
Background Light: Illuminates the background of the scene. Otherwise the subject will be well-lit on a dark set
The main point of the 4 point lighting system is to simulate 'natural' light and to replicate the lighting of any given.
High Key Lighting-
Bright surrounding light.
Does not create emotion or tension
Used for fashion shoots more and in non-fiction
Highlights colour, especially bright colours
Advantages-
Dont have to move lights
Saves money
Economical
Low Key Lighting
Eliminates fill light
Much bigger contrast between light and darkness
Creates mood/tension
Disadvantage-
Time Consuming having to move lights
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High and Low Key Lighting
High Key lighting
In this scene high key lighting is used to make the scene look pure and clean signifying heaven or some place like that, also the use of many light removes all shadows to create a sense of safety and no evil around as shadows can connote to evil and danger, further letting the viewer know they are in a mystical place or heaven.
500 days with summer - The high key lighting used in this still image illuminates the background eliminating the back ground of the buildings, this gives the scenes of their own bubble in a world showing how nothing can interfere with their lives. However it could show how blurred they are from reality thinking that they cant be touched foreshadowing the eventual brake-up.
Low Key Lighting
Guardians Of The Galaxy - The use of low key lighting in this scene illuminates half of Thanos' face signifying how he is having to make a decision which he is split on giving him ambiguous motives.
The Exorcist- The use of low key lighting in this scene shows the priest from the back where he is a silhouette which signifies that he may have a dark past, also the house is fully surrounded in shadows which connotes that the house has an evil spirit. The lamp above the priest give him the sense of holy which is providing light to the house
Camera Shot
A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen n one shot of frame. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. As a result, camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film.
Types of camera shots:
Establishing Shot
Wide Shot
Mid Shot (Cowboy Shot)
Medium Close Up
Close Up
Extreme close up
Over the shoulder
Each of these sots is used for a different purpose and provides and provides the viewer a meaning.
A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen n one shot of frame. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. As a result, camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film.
Camera Angles
Camera angles also play an important part in the cinematography
Types of camera angles:
Birds eye view
Worms eye view
Low angle
High angle
Eye level
Dutch Tilt 10
Dissolve - Transition where one scene covers another slowly fading over it
Cross Out -
J-Cut - A J cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from a following scene overlaps the picture from the preceding scene
Cuts and Transitions (Homework)
Explain what the cuts or transition is
Explain why its used
An examples from films or TV
Cut - A cut is where a camera angle is changed to a different camera angle
Its used to give the viewer another perspective on the seen
Its used in almost every movie
Fade to/ From black- Transition from another scene or camera angle but more smoothly than a cut
Its used to slow down the movie and give the viewer more time
Its also used in every movie
Wipe - Where one scene is replaced by another shot by sliding across the screen
Its used to show that the scene is in a different place
Dissolve - Transition where one scene covers another slowly fading over it
It can be used to show time has passed or there is similarities between the 2 characters
Whip Pan - Where the pan shot transitions so fast that blurs appear
Used to show the passage of time or fast paced action
Cutaways - Interruption of a scene
Surprise the viewer with a different scene and can give the viewer insight to a characters thoughts
Jump Cut -
n which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all.
This type of edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Cutting an action -
Where the camera is moved as action happens
speeds up the scene and can cut of gruesome parts.
speeds up the scene and can cut of gruesome parts.
Cross Out -
Graphic match or match out - A graphic match (as opposed to a graphic contrast or collision) occurs when the shapes, colors and/or overall movement of two shots match in composition
Allows for a smooth transition between two transitions
J-Cut - A J cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from a following scene overlaps the picture from the preceding scene
Allow an editor break a conversation and create a more natural flow
Most movies use in general conversations and can be used for flashbacks/dreams
L-Cut -An L cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from preceding scene overlaps the picture from the following scene
Allow an editor break a conversation and create a more natural flow.
Allow an editor break a conversation and create a more natural flow.
Most movies use in general conversations and can be used for flashbacks/dreams
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