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The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens

Name: The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens
Author: Gustavo Mercado

The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

Gustavo Mercado,

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The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens

The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

Gustavo Mercado,

About this book

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project. This book offers a unique approach to learning how lenses can produce aesthetically and narratively compelling images in movies, through a close examination of the various ways lens techniques control the look of space, movement, focus, flares, distortion, and the "optical personality" of your story's visual landscape.

Loaded with vivid examples from commercial, independent, and world cinema, The Language of the Lens presents dozens of insightful case studies examining their conceptual, narrative, and technical approaches to reveal how master filmmakers have harnessed the power of lenses to express the entire range of emotions, themes, tone, atmosphere, subtexts, moods, and abstract concepts.

The Language of the Lens provides filmmakers, at any level or experience, with a wealth of knowledge to unleash the full expressive power of any lens at their disposal, whether they are shooting with state-of-the-art cinema lenses or a smartphone, and everything in between.

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Publisher

Year

Print ISBN

eBook ISBN

Edition

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film & Video

INDEX 

195

U

Ueda, 

Shôji 

78

ultra 

high 

deﬁnition 

(UHD) 

3

ultra 

wide-angle 

lenses 

28,

42,

43

,

52,

151, 

159

uniqueness 

176

,

177

Unsworth, 

Geoffrey 

150

Upstream 

Color

XII

,

3

urgency 

83,

84

,

85,

93,

105

V

Van

Rooijen, 

Diederik 

2

Van

Sant, 

Gus

124

,

125

variable 

focal 

length 

lenses 

see

zoom 

lenses

varifocal 

lenses 

34–35

vastness 

58

,

59,

75

Verbinski, 

Gore 

136

,

137

vignetting 

4,

31,

46,

51–52, 

52

,

151, 

159, 

165, 

171

Villeneuve, 

Denis 

118

,

119

Vinterberg, 

Thomas 

148

,

149

vision 

126

,

127

visual 

tropes 

10,

13,

14,

119, 

141, 

143

W

We

Need 

to

Talk 

About 

Kevin

26,

27

Welles, 

Orson 

40,

111

whimsy 

154

,

155

wide-angle 

lenses 

10,

18,

22–23, 

125, 

127, 

151, 

153, 

155, 

157, 

163

barrel 

distortion 

in

42,

67,

117, 

159

and

chromatic 

aberrations 

52,

53

close 

up

shots 

with 

117

curvilinear 

42,

43

and

deep 

focus 

111

and

depth 

of

ﬁeld 

38,

40

establishing 

shots 

with 

58

,

59

extreme 

long 

shots 

with 

15,

18

and

facial 

distortion 

19,

41

,

42,

42

,

44,

65,

155, 

157, 

159

and

ﬁeld 

of

view 

24,

25

,

26,

44,

159

medium 

shots 

with 

173

and

minimum 

focusing 

distance 

33,

117

moustache 

distortion 

42

and

movement 

83,

87,

91

and

optical 

distortion 

42,

55,

67,

151, 

153, 

155, 

157, 

159, 

163

and

perspective 

expansion 

19,

44,

45,

55,

59,

61,

63,

65,

68

,

69,

87

rectilinear 

42,

43

and

vignetting 

51

wide 

shots 

with 

15,

153

zoom 

shift 

to

61,

71,

75

zoom 

shift 

from 

73

see

also

ﬁsheye 

lenses; 

ultra 

wide-

angle 

lenses

widescreen 

aspect 

ratio 

47,

177

Wilson, 

Erik 

Alexander 

100

Winding 

Refn, 

Nicolas 

174

,

175

wistfulness 

130

,

131

Wyler, 

William 

40

X

x-axis: 

and

movement 

83,

85,

91,

93,

95

and

anamorphic 

distortion 

47,

161

Xiaonin 

Chi

56

Xiaoquin 

Yu

56

Y

y-axis: 

and

ﬁeld 

of

view 

26

and

movement 

87

and

shot 

composition 

79

Young, 

Freddie 

88

Z

z-axis: 

compression 

23,

44–45, 

44,

57,

63,

65,

67,

77

expansion 

23,

44–45, 

44

,

59,

63,

65

and

focal 

length 

42,

44,

67

and

focusing 

34,

101

and

movement 

83,

87,

89,

91,

93,

161

and

perspective 

distortion 

42,

44,

63,

151

Zeiss 

T2.8 

21mm 

prime 

lenses 

21,

22

Zhang, 

Yimou 

56

,

57

zoom 

lenses 

1,

28,

30,

45–46, 

46

,

75,

143

and

chromatic 

aberrations 

52

and

directing 

style 

173

and

dolly 

zooms 

71,

73

and

ﬂares 

135

and

moustache 

distortion 

42

parfocal 

34–35

speed 

46

and

subject 

movement 

83

varifocal 

34–35

zoom 

ratios 

45–46,

71,

75

zoom 

ring 

45,

46

,

47

zoom 

shift/zooming 

61,

71,

73,

75,

139, 

161

Zsigmond, 

Vilmos 

144

Zvyagintsev, 

Andrey 

66

,

67

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
acknowledgments
the lens revolution
a lens language
lenses & image systems
technical concepts
SPACE
MOVEMENT
FOCUS
FLARES
DISTORTION
INTANGIBLES
references
filmography
image credits
index

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