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Introduction
Cinematography is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAr2yiYCV4
Advanced look at the purpose and values of cinematography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLQJReDhic
Cinematography: Learning Quests:
Cinematography Options:
- Option #1: Select one of the following options to learn more about cinematography:
- Watch Cinematographer Style, a documentary created from interviews with cinematographers. Available through the Mt. Lebanon High School Library: DVD 778.5 CIN (total run time: 86 minutes)
- Watch this fantastic look at lenses and cinematography from Newton Thomas Sigel (cinematographer of Bohemian Rhapsody and other wide-release films): https://youtu.be/DGujsKb2e10
- Read a chapter (or more than one chapter) of one of our cinematography books available on the shelf. Particularly recommended is The Five Cs of Cinematography by Joseph V. Mascelli.
- Examine a number of resources about composition:
- Visit the website of the American Cinematographer magazine to find their podcasts with cinematographers: http://www.theasc.com/site/podcasts/
- Watch one of the films, then listen to the podcast by that cinematographer. (Please note that many of these films are rated R and require a parent's permission to view.)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Angel Heart (1987)
- The Crow (1994)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- The Winter Soldier (2014)
- Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
- Life of Pi (2012)
- And many others--check the list on the right side of the webpage above.
- Watch one of the films, then listen to the podcast by that cinematographer. (Please note that many of these films are rated R and require a parent's permission to view.)
- Option #2: Select one of the following to apply what you know about cinematography to another's work
- Watch a film and dissect a single scene by storyboarding that scene. You could film and edit an approximation of that scene.
- For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.
- Watch a film and dissect a single scene by storyboarding that scene. You could film and edit an approximation of that scene.
- Option #3: Select one of the following to apply what you know about cinematography to your own work
- Find a copyright-friendly, pre-written screenplay. Plan, film, and edit a production of this screenplay.
- For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.
- Find a copyright-friendly, pre-written screenplay. Plan, film, and edit a production of this screenplay.
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