Basic Cinematography
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Basic Cinematography

A Creative Guide to Visual Storytelling

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  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Basic Cinematography

A Creative Guide to Visual Storytelling

About this book

The cinematographer must translate the ideas and emotions contained in a script into something that can be physically seen and felt onscreen, helping the director to fulfil the vision of the film. The shots may look good, but they will not serve the story until the composition, lenses, and lighting express, enhance, and reveal the underlying emotions and subtext of the story. By making physical the ideas and emotions of the story, the cinematographer supports blocking as a visual form of the story through these tools.

Rather than delve into technical training, Basic Cinematography helps to train the eye and heart of cinematographers as visual storytellers, providing them with a strong foundation for their work, so that they're ready with creative ideas and choices on set in order to make compelling images that support the story.

The book includes tools, tables, and worksheets on how to enhance students and experienced filmmakers with strong visual storytelling possibilities, including such features as:



  • Dramatic script analysis that will help unlock blocking, composition, and lighting ideas that reveal the visual story



  • Ten tools of composition



  • Psychological impact of lenses, shot sizes, and camera movement



  • Six elements of lighting for visual storytelling



  • What to look for beneath the "hood" of cameras, including using camera log, RAW, and LUTs



  • Dramatic analysis chart and scene composition chart to help plan your shoots



  • Case studies from such visually cinematic shows and documentaries as Netflix's Godless, Jessica Jones, The Crown, and Chef's Table, as well as examples from classroom exercises



  • Features insights from the DP of Jessica Jones, Manuel Billeter, and the DP of Chef's Table, Adam Bricker.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780815396451
eBook ISBN
9781351182119
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video
FIGURE 
1.2
We 
can 
see 
an 
exaggerated, 
overly 
dramatic 
acting 
style 
by 
Gustav 
Fröhlich 
and 
Brigitte 
Helm 
in 
Fritz 
Lang’s 
Metropolis
(1927). 
This 
type 
of 
acting 
was 
typical 
of 
the 
19th-century 
stage 
Stanislavski 
challenged 
at 
the 
Moscow 
Art 
Theater. 
Modern 
acting 
techniques 
wouldn't 
appear 
in 
ïŹlm 
until 
the 
1930s, 
after 
the 
introduction 
of 
talkies. 
(Scene 
read 
top 
to 
bottom, 
left 
to 
right.)
(Images 
©1927 
Universum 
Film.)
V
ISUAL
S
TORYTELLING
T
HROUGH
B
LOCKING
CHAPTER
1
7

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. FOREWORD
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION THE FOUNDATION OF VISUAL STORYTELLING
  9. CHAPTER 1 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH BLOCKING
  10. CHAPTER 2 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH LENSES AND COMPOSITION
  11. CHAPTER 3 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH LIGHTING
  12. CHAPTER 4 VISUAL STORYTELLING WITH CAMERA LOG, RAW, AND LUTS
  13. CHAPTER 5 WORKFLOW TOOLS FOR THE BEGINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER
  14. CONCLUSION
  15. INDEX