Cinematography Carousel · 9 slides
Lighting for Mood: Contrast and Softness
How key-to-fill contrast and the hardness of light shape the emotion of a shot, with examples from The Third Man, The Godfather and Aparajito.
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Cinematography
Light, lens and movement: how the image is made.
Cinematography Carousel · 9 slides
Depth of Field: Focus Decides What Matters
How cinematographers use deep and shallow focus to tell the audience where to look and what to feel.
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The Dolly Zoom: How One Camera Move Makes the World Tilt
The camera moves one way, the lens zooms the other, and the face in the middle never changes size. Everything…
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