THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tracking Shot, Deep Focus, Gordon Willis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 1T03
• Professor: Carla Melo

Document Summary

>set, costumes, acting, lighting; everything you can see. A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist-moving an audience through a moviemaking them think the way you want them to think. - gordon willis. Story told in retrospect; boy outside is citizen keyne, his mother is sending him away to be educated in an urban setting; Shallow focus - few planes in crisp focus. Rack focus- focus is altered over course of shot itself. Extreme long - setting dominates, bodies small in scale. Medium long- bodies visible from the knees up. Close- only face, hands, or significant object can be seen. Extreme close- only an isolate detail is visible. Straight on: camera neither above nor below subject (no noticeable angle) Level: top/bottom frame edges parallel to the horizon line of the subject filmed. Canted: frame off-killer in relation to the subject filmed (top/bottom not parallel to the horizon line)