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movinglmages07 - Week 1
cinematography:
(literally, “writing in movement”)
depends to a
large extent on photography (“writing with light”).
Sometimes
the filmmaker eliminates the camera and simply
works on the film
itself; but even when drawing, painting, or
Scratching directly on film, punching holes in it, or growing
mold
on it, the filmmaker is creating patterns of light on celluloid.
Excerpt from “Film Art” chapter
7, page 21
This course is not going to involve working with actual film, but the aesthetic
principles and most of the technical set up are the same with video,
even if the actual technology is slightly different. If this
course inspires you to go that direction I suggest you take a few courses
in the SFU Film program or begin here to work on your portfolio to apply
to the highly in-demand Film Program in Burnaby at SFU.
This course will
introduce you to the principles that both film and video/television
production have in common, the aesthetic techniques developed in film
and then further explored in video art, as well as the historic developments
that led to where we are in the art of film and video/television production.
This week
Screening in (studeio lab) class: “Visions
of Light: The Art of Cinematography” (1993)
Director:
Arnold Glassman
-Basic Terminologies:
- the shot
- depth of field
- lighting and colour
- scene and sequence
Readings
-Zettl – Video Basics 4 or 5, Chap 4+5: Video
Camera Function and Operation
– 2
copies of each, on reserve in Library – PDF copies here: Chap
4 and Chap 5
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