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Cinematography 08

The document discusses various techniques of cinematography including types of film stock, camera lenses, depth of field, framing, and camera movements. It covers topics such as wide-angle and telephoto lenses, zooming, panning, tilting, and tracking shots. Different camera shots like extreme long shot, long shot, and close-up are also explained in terms of how they frame the subject.

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Cinematography 08

The document discusses various techniques of cinematography including types of film stock, camera lenses, depth of field, framing, and camera movements. It covers topics such as wide-angle and telephoto lenses, zooming, panning, tilting, and tracking shots. Different camera shots like extreme long shot, long shot, and close-up are also explained in terms of how they frame the subject.

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Cinematography

The manipulations of the film strip by the camera in the shooting phase and by the laboratory in the developing phase.
Photographic aspects of the shot Framing of the shot Duration of the shot

Photographic Aspects of Cinematography


Film Stock:
Fast v slow film Black and White v. Color

Exposure Developing/printing Speed of motion: Slow-motion, fast-motion

Singin in the Rain- Technicolor film stock

The Camera Lens


Focal Length: the distance from the center of the lens to the point at which the light rays meet in sharp focus. This length determines perspective relations and depth cues on the flat screen surface.

Normal lens: 35-50mm, presuming 35mm camera

Wide Angle: short focal length ( 35 mm or less) which produces a wider angle of view.
Effect: distorting straight lines, exaggerating depth

Wide-Angle Lens

Telephoto Lens: lens with a long focal length (75mm or more).


Effect: collapse depth cues by enlarging distant planes and making them seem close to the foreground planes.

If time: Bowfinger (Oz, 1999)

Zoom lens
Lens with a focal length that can be changed during a shot.
Shift to telephoto range magnifies the image and flattens the space Shift to wide-angle increases depth cues and demagnifies the background.

Retro-zoom
Tracking back and zooming in,or Tracking in and zooming out CLIP: Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)

Depth of Field:the range of distance within which objects can be photographed and remain in sharp focus.
Shot focal length: greater depth of field Long focal length, reduces depth of field.

FRAMING
*aspect ratios *offscreen space /onsceen spaces * angle, level, height, distance of framing * Mobile Framing

Extreme Long Shot (ELS)

Long shot, LS

Medium Long Shot (MLS) plan amricain

Medium Shot (MS)

Medium Close-up (MCU)

Close-up (CU)

Extreme Close-up (ECU)

Straight-on angle

High-angle

Low-angle

Pan: camera is set on the tripod turning left or right. On the screen, the camera appears to scan the space horizontally.

Tilt: camera is fixed on a tripod swivels up or down. This movement produces a vertical scan.

Tracking Shot
Mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward, or laterally.

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