ARB 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Darker Image, Brian Helgeland, Telephoto Lens
12 Feb 2017
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This section explores some of the elements at play in the construction of a shot. As the critics at cahiers du cin ma maintained, the how is as important as the. The look of an image, its balance of dark and light, the depth of the space in focus, the relation of background and foreground, etc. All affect the reception of the image. For instance, the optical qualities of grainy black and white in battle of algiers (gillo pontecorvo, maarakat madinat al jazaer, algeria: seem to guarantee its authenticity. Technicolor of a musical such as singin" in the rain (stanley donen, 1952) suggests an out-of-this-world glamor and excitement. Early lms were shot in black and white but the cinema soon included color images. These images were initially painted or stencilled onto the lm but by the 1930s. Lmmakers were able to include color sequences in their lms.
