Cinematography Essay

The adaptation of literature into film is a process that requires careful and experienced methods of cinematic attention to details according to crucial narrative aspects of the literary piece. The film industry has been creating visual versions of literature for quite some time, but the advancement of modern technology has opened the door to a world full of new and exciting possibilities in terms of visual and special effects. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a timeless classic of the

Planning and shooting play key roles in creating a work of art through film that has meaning and can provoke emotions in an audience. Cinematography encompasses these tasks and other factors that contribute to a film’s production, ranging from styling variables like color and contrast to the types of camera lenses used to camera positions used while filming. While a director or producer has the primary voice in determining what a film will consist of, the cinematographer does more than any other

camera’s ability to capture was via a mechanical process, the camera’s mechanical eye could capture reality with greater clarity than the human eye. Because of Vertov’s Kino-eye philosophy and the experimental nature of Man with a Movie Camera, his cinematography had a playfulness to it; using camera to fullest of its potential, and skillfully selecting different filmmaking techniques and effects as to best capture his subject. The nature of the film, and its broad use of techniques (in particular: montage

Cinematography has the potential to be so much more than just a means to tell a story. When applied correctly, cinematography has the capability of being like a work of art hanging in a museum. Cinematography is also able to give a depth and feeling to a film that would otherwise not be possible. While all movies must use a camera to merely exist, few professionals have mastered the skill and artistry that cinematography can become. Two cinematographers that I feel use the camera as a paint brush

by allowing abstractions, questions, or interpretations to come out. This is accomplished by intentional ambiguity and not emphasizing any specific aspects of their film. Realists achieve and rely heavily on cinematography, not editing, or doing so as little as possible. As for cinematography, that includes long shots, wide screen, lengthy takes, deep focus, panning, craning, or tilting. Realists allow the audience to make observations that they should make and opinions instead of being guided

building tension, fear and suspense throughout his films. Hitchcock used visual cinema techniques including cinematography, symbolism and colour in films such as Rope and Vertigo to invoke a response from his audience. Hitchcock wanted us to identify with the psychological and physical situations that his protagonists and antagonists experience. In Rope, Hitchcock uses innovative cinematography techniques so that the audience feel as if they are a part of the unfolding drama. The camera-work is choreographed

Did you know it is more to film broadcasting than just visible viewing it? The ability to analyze films implicates closely examination of cinematography. Cinematography refers to the process in film of lighting a shot and achieving quality in the visual images that are captured. The cinematographer in any film is also known as the director of photography and may be either an artist or a technician. It is this individual who is responsible for ensuring that the images appearing on screen are presented

the film involved special effects. One of the many reasons is because the film itself was made on a budget and the other being “for the nature and scope of its subject” (The Denny Life) to keep costs down. One of the methods that revolutionize cinematography was the introduction of a technique known as deep focus by Orson Welles. Deep focus is the use of “having everything in the frame even the background in focus at the same time” contrary to “having only the people or object in the foreground in

the techniques rather than the narrative. This new style of film made their films excel and remain very well known. This essay will discuss directors Francois Truffaut and Orson Wells, and their unique signature film techniques and elements of cinematography. Francois Truffaut was a director who employed techniques that have a distinguishable style and he believed, “the Film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of camera, but by artist for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful

be forgotten. Yet it's not only the story that makes this film a classic. It's the ideas that stick behind the rising action, climax, and resolution. It’s the brilliance behind the camera movements, and the nostalgic use of lighting. It's the cinematography, in the most basic scenes, that makes it a film for romantics, not realists. The decision to pan the camera upwards or, to cast a shadow on a scene is all up to one person on set. In the movie Dead Poet's Society, this vision belongs to cinematographer