Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Telephoto Lens

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1022
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Cinematography: 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. Cinematographic elements: framing, lens, chemistry of light registration, focus, camera movement, time of shot (length, fast or slow motion), special effects, etc. 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). compare to a take. In filmmaking (from a film-maker"s 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. Focal length the distance from the center of the lens to the point where light rays converge to a point of focus effects the size depth and scale.