FS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Camera Operator, Committee For Accuracy In Middle East Reporting In America, Chiaroscuro
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How are music and lyrics used within the story and in the film as a whole (ex. Cinematography definition: cinematography: the craft of photographing moving images with a camera, this includes, recording the image onto film stock or digital hard-drive, positioning and moving the camera focusing the image using different lenses and filters. The camera: director of photography (dp) or cinematographer: makes artistic and technical decision about cinematography, cameraman or camera operator and crew: start and stop shooting, move the camera on a dolly or track, select focus lenses. The lenses: the lens is the eye of the camera. It has an aperture to let in light and a focal length to capture images at different distances and depths: normal lenses approximate the human eye, perspective looks normal. Special lenses- wide angle lens, fish-eye lens (looking through a peep hole or a gun aim), telephoto lens (nature documentaries)
