Don’t Look Now is a film directed by Nicolas Hoeg. The cover to the DVD of the movie introduced the plot as – “When a little girl is drowned, her parents go to Venice to forget. They meet a strange clairvoyant, who tells them their daughter is still very much alive and gives them ominous… Continue reading Don’t Look Now
This is an exercise in creating two short scenes with the intention of imbuing each scene with a particular atmosphere. I chose to do: Atmosphere 1: A depressed teenager at home Atmosphere 2: A warm sunny day Atmosphere 1: A Depressed Teenager at Home This exercise ended up resulting in two different videos, one that… Continue reading Project 9: Exercise Atmosphere
For this exercise I used three different reflectors; white, silver and gold. I started off by taking a photo with just one source of light to benchmark form. This light was a spotlight positioned to the left of the frame. I used two different subjects. In both these images it is clear that one side… Continue reading Project 9 – Exercise: Reflected Light
In this exercise we are asked to look for examples of light levels changing radically in a scene. The following shots comes from Ron Howard’s 2001 movie called A Beautiful Mind about the life of the mathematician John Nash. In the shots below, John Nash who has just started at Princeton University, is frustrated by… Continue reading Project 9 – Changes in light levels
For this exercise I found images related to: Dynamic Oppressive Confusing Refined For the dynamic images, I found three, as shown below: The first two contain diagonal lines which create the movement, whereas in the third image the diagonal is created by the skaters body. In the first image, the boy is running alongside… Continue reading Project 7: Images with Depth
Matt Workman has produced a brilliant video where he does a detailed analysis of the lighting techniques used in Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight movie. Matt Workman is a cinematographer and the founder of the website Cinematography Database. I tried to recreate two of the scenes using the lighting techniques he describes. In analysing the exterior… Continue reading Lighting techniques in The Hateful Eight
For this exercise, we are to find examples of: frames composed using the rule of thirds composition balanced between shots rules being broken tension created by upsetting the balance other distinct meanings suggested through visual balance Finding images that respect the rule of thirds is very easy as every movie seems to have an abundance… Continue reading Balance – some images
For this exercise, I used the view of part of our kitchen to attempt to show depth by making use of light. Before continuing with the details of how I went about this project, I am going to jump to the end of it. I asked my actor to help by walking into and out… Continue reading Project 7: Creating depth with light
I watched Grapes of Wrath directed by John Ford and based on the book written by John Steinbeck. It stars Henry Fonda in the leading role. The main reason that I decided to watch it is because I had read that John Steinbeck had based some of the book on field notes taken by the US Farm Security Administration(FSA)… Continue reading Grapes of Wrath
In this exercise we are asked to film or photograph two objects to show the change in depth of field. Humans have two eyes and therefore are able to see with binocular vision. Each eye sees the same scene but from a slightly different angle. When the two slightly different images are sent to the brain, the… Continue reading Exercise: Depth
