Cinematography

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  • Cinematography
    • Shot types
      • Close ups
        • Extreme close up- featured shown
        • Close up- personal, intrusive
        • Medium close up- shows part of costume
      • Medium& long
        • Medium shot- costume, background
        • Medium long shot-subject in relation to surrounding
        • Long shot- full character and environment
        • Very long shot- establishes genre and setting
      • Special
        • Two shot- relationship between pair
        • Over the shoulder- conversational, shapes feelings
        • Moving subject walks into space
        • Tilted frame- used to show disorientation
        • High angle- creates sympathy
        • Low angle- shows power
    • Camera movement
      • Fixed
        • doesn't move, only pans, used to reveal something
      • Shifting axis
        • Whole camera moves to capture action
      • Zoom
        • looks at subject in distance, variable lens used to focus
      • Crane shot
        • mounted camera, raises/ lowers, novel perspective
      • Hand-held
        • allows camera to follow action from standpoint
    • Lighting
      • Low-key
        • Dark and shadowy, dramatic
      • High-key
        • bright, no shadow, optimistic
      • 3 point
        • strong key and back create shadows, strong fill softens them
      • Direction
        • creates different moods and emotions
      • Chiaroscuro
        • extreme contrast of low and high contrast lighting, dramatic
    • Focus/ depth of field
      • Shallow Depth
        • part of frame is soft, or out of focus, helps punctuate something
      • Deep Depth
        • no isolation, cinematic realism

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