In our lecture today we were looking at film grammar and what this means. Film grammar: (cinematic language) – the way the audience can automatically interpret visual information (invisible techniques).
In film, film grammar is defined as follows:
CinematographyWe also looked at how a camera may be positioned in a certain shot and what angle it's at. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. Camera angles are used to position the viewer so that they can understand the relationships between the characters. These are very important for shaping meaning in film as well as in other visual texts. Cinematography is a combination of these two along with camera movement and lighting. Cinematography is defined as “writing in movement” and depends largely on photography. The art of cinematography is concerned just as much with how something is being filmed as it is with what is being filmed. The cinematographer, or director of photography, adds to and enhances the narrative through control of the camera. The way in which a shot is framed, lit, toned, and coloured is a story of its own just as it is in photography. Unlike in photography or painting, in cinematography the framing of an image can move. A scene will often stretch on for minutes, which allows the camera to shape our perspective of what we are seeing through pans, tilts, and angles. Sometimes just the movement itself, or tracking of an image, can tell a story. I looked at cinematographers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Roger Deakins and how they used different camera positions and angles to give meaning or set an atmosphere to the scene. References
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