Research- Miss Begum: Cinematography

Cinematography 

What is cinematography and why is it an important micro-element?

Cinematography generally means the art of filming or taking photography. This means how the camera is position or how the camera director is going film an scene or what angles they are planning to use when they are filming. They are many considerations that need to happen before they start filming. Its an important micro-element you need to plan on what shots your planing to take and how would audience response would be.

What are the three features of cinematography?

Cinematography can come under three stems. Movement, Sizes and angle. all of these are essential for making a film because you need to to take the correct angle or camera movement for different scenes otherwise it might confuse the viewers or make the film look bad.

Cinematic shots

Shots are important especially for a thriller films not only you can capture the emotions of the characters it also helps set a scene. Below are some basic shots

• Extreme Long shot (Establishing shot) - This shot is usually taken when you start your filming. And is a shot of an large Area that may point of interest.

• Long shots - Long shots are camera shots that are usually shot at between head to toe.
• Medium shots - Medium shots are shots waist up to head.
• Medium close up - Medium close up are shots that are from the shoulder up. They would be used when the director needs the characters to have an reaction to an event and the audience should see this.
  
• Close up - Close up shots are usually the face. They would be used when the director needs the characters to have an reaction to an event and the audience should see this.
• Overhead shots - Almost directly above their heads looking down.

Angles

Different angles tells the viewer what’s type of person he is. Here are several examples

• High Angle - An high angle makes some look inferior
• Low angle -  A Low angle makes some look more superior
• Canted angle - Camera at a tilt.

Camera movement

There are many camera movements you can do with a camera this may include panning around however when your filming an film different camera movements may only suite a scene that you are planning to film.

• Panning shot - Camera moves across.
• Tilt shot - Camera moves up and down
• Crane shot - on a crane, Camera movement is flexible
• Zoom - Capture emotion or get away from
• Point of view - When it looks like it is from person view
• Person View - Hand held went the camera makes with reppition

Analysis of Camera movement (The Phone Booth)

This clip shows a variety of shots taken (at 00:25) you can see an tilt shot with the camera aiming at the protagonist face this is to show him being nervous because he is trying to contact the police. And he doses not want the guy on the phone to know. This reaction from the audience would be very nervous since they don't know what's going to happen next. Then (at 01:42) the camera panning around the telephone box this is because the protagonist just been shot in the ear a couple of seconds early. The audience at the moment are probably in shocked because he was shot and the camera panning is probably making it worse.

Analysis of Camera movement (The Grudge)

The grudge also uses different variety off cinematography (at 0:49) you can seen an tilt shot at an extremely slow pace with the camera is tilting up. This is to show you what about to happening the scene. Because the camera tilting is slow and of other factors the audience is properly nervous because we don’t know what’s going to happen next. In this case the man slips and the scene jumps to another. Another example used in this clip is at (at 1:28) we can see an close up This is because of his reaction to what’s happening in this situation. The audience is probably really nervous because from the actor face something bad is about to happened.

Conlcusion

When filming i have to make sure that i use the correct filming techniques for each different scene there are scenes that may require using different techniques for example if there was someone was running in the woods i would of used medium shot with a crane shot or in my case it would be panning shot since we may not able to have access with a crane.