Cinematographers Essays

The 1959 French film The 400 Blows, the debut of director Francois Truffaut, changed the course of cinema within the span of less than 100 minutes. The 400 Blows, with child-like elegance, expresses the gentle yet callused nature of the writer/director through the use of authentic storytelling, superb casting, innovative production, and the effective molding of all of these traits to make one, powerful masterpiece. The story centers around thirteen year old Antoine and his life in 1950’s Paris. Antoine

Accompanying Charles Kane success, failure, and death the music in “Citizen Kane” is an indispensable factor for its triumph. Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films to ever be produced believe many critics. Well, it is definitely a 1941 American Masterpiece attributed to Orsan Welles. In addition to directing the film, Welles produced, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane. It is praised for its innovation in visual techniques, narrative methods and of course music. In this paper I will examine

As an audience we seem to accept any world presented to us in films, no matter how ludicrous or incomprehensible that world may be. Certain actions that could be considered crazy in real life, such as singing and dancing down a street, are often justified in film contexts due to hidden codes and conventions. What are these codes and conventions? Why are they present? And how do they go unnoticed to us as an educated audience? Ideology is defined as a body of ideas and beliefs of a group or nation

Once again, ARRI can claim the top vote getter amongst cinematographers in this year's Academy Awards race. But the surprise was that the ALEXA Mini was a very popular choice within that subset. But while many shooters preferred ARRI, there were other cameras that still got some notice by Oscar. Roger Deakins Blade Runner 2049:  Cinematographer Roger Deakins nominated for Best Cinematography and he is a master at giving stark, barren landscapes and other worldly, yet beautiful sheen. And for this

lighting and was the first cinematographer to use entirely artificial light in a film. This allowed films to not rely on natural light and weather. In addition, he employed lighting effects such as firelight, candlelight and sunshine to achieve the look and mood he wanted in a certain scene. All of these elements contributed to the movies that Griffith and Blitzer made together. They have a lasting legacy as being one of the greatest director-cinematographer teams and introducing numerous

The article from the magazine “American cinematographer” (VOL 93, Issue 3, 2012) by Holben,J titled “Chronicle shot by Matthew Jensen, gives the found footage genre a new twist” considers useful information about one of the successful found footage film examples “Chronicle”. The information in the article describes the camera movements used to create narrative in the film, lighting effects and in general the article briefly discovers the camera work in found footage genre. In the article Holben,

isolated, calm and cerebral Purple is fantasy, ethereal, mystic and erotic Personal Opinion  During events such as weddings and performances, One can find it difficult to set the color on et without the need of colour grading in post.  Every cinematographer has his/her own ways and means to grade a project. When i grade my fooatge I use Premiere Pro and play around with some brightness and contrast to fix some lighting problems while filming than I play around with curves and color tones to change

overall vision for a film. Merriam-Webster defines cinematography as, “the art, process, or job of filming movies,” and a large aspect of this art has to do with lighting, framing, and camera movement. In the films Rashomon (1950) and Ida (2013), cinematographers use these tools to tell their stories in a beautiful, complex way. Good acting, on its own, is a crucial component of filmmaking, but when combined with good cinematography classics are created. This paper will provide an analysis of the cinematography

launched there are a lot of people behind it, however, the one who captures is the real presenter. In case, if the cinematographer turns out to be someone who never imposes the right set of skills in capturing the shot entire concept no matter how successfully written turns out to be a failure. When it comes to the discussion of the leading director of photography the name of cinematographer Adam Kimmel always holds the first position. His skills are always unmatchable when compared to the other competitors

The Film “Citizen Kane” challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of traditional Hollywood by providing an illusion of movement and expressive use of light in multiple scenes. In this film the narrator expressed that Charles Foster Kane utilized his strengths which was media, newspapers that is how he reached the people, how he could manipulate the readers to read whatever story he wanted to showcase. What was very noticeable to me was mostly that the story was being told in a

“Citizen Kane” was produced in 1941. In the year 1941 there was a lot going on throughout America such as getting over the great depression with FDR. Hitler’s run in Germany also affected the US with WWII, but that didn’t stop the young director Orson Welles. “Citizen Kane” was Welles first Hollywood film and he was only 26 years old when he directed it and acted in it. Welles was known before this film because he had a popular radio broadcast called “War of the Worlds.” Orson Welles wrote this film

Game Of Thrones, an amazing TV Show Game Of Thrones is an American TV show, which was created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. This TV show is based on the series called ‘A Song Of Ice And Fire’ by George R. R. Martin. Original language of the TV show is English. The first episode was released in April 17, 2011. Since now, there are 6 seasons and 60 episodes. The seventh season is considered to premiere in the summer of 2017. The eighth season in 2018 will be the last season of Game Of Thrones

perceptiveness will be encouraged to be used as it will help each one of us to understand and become aware of how others in the ream function. For example, the editor should have insight and awareness into how the cinematographer operates in order to better understand why the cinematographer would want specific shots for a specific scene and how this can be beneficial and creative in the editing process, and as an editor, having this insight helps to remain true to the original conceptual and emotional

Introduction For the final deconstruction paper, I chose the opening of Meshes of the Afternoon a 1943 Hollywood film directed by Maya Deren and cinematographer Alexander Hamid up until the actor closes her eyes just before she sleeps and before the dream. The film concerns the main cinematic element of slow disclosure, while delving into the secondary elements of multi-angularity, camera movement, and familiar image. The paper will deconstruct the opening scene’s cinematic structure shot-by-shot

its complexity. Currently I am trying to solve a problem relating to my new film. My cinematographer got some broll of their house and the editor made it into a time lapse to show time has passed between one scene to another. However, the time lapse does not imply time has changed. Now I must figure out how to utilize the coverage to enhance the narrative. Do I take it out completely or do I have the cinematographer shoot again and postpone the film? I am working closely with the producer and editor

but creating a film adaptation of a stage production that makes effective use of the film medium to communicate an idea without losing the essence or message of the original production, well, it can be quite difficult. Although screenwriters, cinematographers, and directors have and use various tools that aren’t available to playwrights and book writers they often struggle with the effective presentation of an idea. They wonder what they could change to enhance the author’s message and how they could

Despite only appearing in three films Jimmys Deian became a culture acon who was copied by generation of actors. East of Eden is his first of those and parphabes the more impulsive because of it is all subtlety and naivete. Elia Kazan’s decision to cast Dean in the role of Cal was a good one, but some parts of the film are dated or unexceptional, even for that era. Nevertheless, East of Eden is still good and saved by Dean’s acting and timeless themes. So,the use of cinema escope makes the wise

the movie sets just like a news film cameraman who follows soldiers into the war. For achieving a quality and tone true to his story, as well as reflecting the era it was set in, the director worked in collaboration with Janusz Kaminski, the cinematographer. Spielberg states that early on into working on the movie, both were agreed on the idea that they didn’t wish to make a techni-color WWII extravaganza; rather, their aim was for a low-tech, desaturated color news footage picked right out of the

film can provide excellent training. The prerequisites to all of these courses is ENG4U and an additional 5 U or M courses. Wages: As of 2014 the average salary of a camera operator is $56,510. The projected growth is 3% for now until 2022. Cinematographer: These people are in charge of actually shooting the film. He is the head of the camera and lighting departments, and as such he has a big role in the making of any movie. I think that this would be a good job because I think it would be interesting

the Capulets and the Montages were standing far from each other at the garage that shows that they don’t get along. In the scene where Romeo and Juliet are separated by the fish tank, could have a connotation that emphases forbidden love. The cinematographer uses high angled shots to get an overview of Brazil, which shows the city of Rio to capture where the scene is taking place (city/ country). The way in which Romeo and Juliet are physically close to each other, whether they are kissing, sexual