Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Telephoto Lens, Film Stock, Frame Rate

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

Document Summary

Involved 3 factors: photographic aspect, framing of shot, duration of shot: photographic; consider film stock i. e. colour, black and white, speed of shot and speed of motion. Shot: from viewer"s perspective watching the screen, a shot is one uninterrupted image with a single static or mobile framing. Take: the shot produced by one uninterrupted run of the camera. The range of tonalities: film makers often manipulate the images tonality after filming. Contrast - an area of tonal control, is the comparative difference between the darkest and lightest areas of a frame. Exposure - regulates how much light passes through a camera lens, exposure can be affected by filters. Perspective: the lens of the photographic camera does roughly what your eye does. Located at a specific point, it gathers light from the scene and transmit that light onto the flat surface of the film or video chip to form an image that represents size, adapt, and other dimensions of the scene.