Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medium Shot, Racking Focus, Cinemascope

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Cinematography all manipulations of the film in production, shooting or development phase: photographic qualities how it is photographed, how the image is framed. Mise-en-scene is what is filmed vs. cinematography is how it"s filmed. Cinematography draws attention to dramatic elements of the story (character, object, setting) Definitions must know the difference between take and shot. From viewer"s perspective watching the screen, a shot is one uninterrupted image with a single static or mobile framing (from one edit to the next). In filmmaking (from filmmakers perspective), a take is the shot produced by one uninterrupted run of the camera. One shot in the final film may be chosen out of several takes the filmmaker made of the same action. General term for all the manipulations of the film strip by the camera in the shooting phase and by the laboratory in the developing phase.