Thursday, September 29, 2011

Craft of Cinematography -01 -02- SPACE





Wizard of oz the movie was done in technicolor 3 strip, was a huge camera, amazing they exploited the sets the way they did.

Notice how the backgrounds are painted, , it was down in the sound stage.

ALso the transition from BW to color as a story telling device worked very well.

The scene where the transition does happen, actually the door way was pointed in sepia and was a in camera effect as the door opens the colds are seen, The film stock used , n technicolor made the colds saturated , and was a wow moment for the film.

Diopter filter: its a device that mounts on the top of the lens and is 1/2 made of a close up glass and the other 1/2 is no glass, so one can achieve focus on 2 planes at the same time.




Spaces:










There are 4 kinds :

DEEP SPACE:
The Deep space cues are :

1. Size difference

2. Textural Difference

3. Movement

4. shape Change

5.Perspective and Convergence

6. tonal quality

7. Color Separation

8. Overlap

9. Focus

10. aerial diffusion

11. Horizon line ( up down space )


Next is FLAT SPACE

Flat space CUES ARE

1. compressed tonal range

2. using cooler color in foreground and warmer colds in background

3. brighter scene at back, darker scene in front

4.Objects and subjects moving side words and not towards the camera.

5. do not overlap subjects to create flat space

6. Size consistency

7. Eliminate color / texture/ aerial diffusion

9. Remove perspective and converging lines

Watch the Movie - Graduate to see a example of flat space creating by the lens, in the scene where Dustin Hoffman is running towards the camera and is still a flat space


NEXT IS Ambiguous space :

1. LACK OF MOVEMENT

2. Tonal and textural pattern

3.Objects of unknown size

4.Unfamalier size objects

5.Mirrors and reflections

all contribute to create such a space

and last : LIMITED SPACE

Limited space: same as deep space But with exception of :

1. No longitudinal Plane

2. No object movement perpendicular to camera.

Using the above DEPTH CUES WE CAN CREAET different kinds of SPACE

now go have fun. :)


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