THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long Take, Time-Lapse Photography, Dramatic Structure
13 Mar 2017
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Act 1: exposition (background) leads to turning point. Act 3: falling action leads to resolution: cinematography: all aspects of filmmaking that relate to the camera. Camerawork: creating meaning in time: basic unit of film is frame (a still photo, natural movement (24 frames/sec, shot = single uninterrupted, unedited series of frames, longer than normal shot = long take. Canted (tilted, strange: extreme long shot xls, long shot ls, medium long shot mls/plan american shot, medium shot ms, medium close up mcu, close up cu, extreme close up xcu. Exploring space: pan: horizontal turning motion of camera, swish pan: executed so quickly it blurs image, tilt: tipping camera vertically, track: traces movement laterally across the frame/in an out of an image. Screen size and shape: aspect ratio: measure the horizontal dimension of the image (width) divided by the vertical (height, most films before 1953 academy ratio 1. 33:1, 1950s: widescreen formats. Cinemascope = 2. 35:1: 1960s today: standard 1. 85:1.
