Moving Images, Understanding Media

148 Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding Media

(in which each of the three primary colors has eight bits of information),

each individual pixel can contain one of nearly 17 million colors, since the

number is calculated as 2^24.

As fi lm stocks and digital sensors have become more sensitive and faster,

thus requiring less light for proper exposure, fi lmmakers have been freed up

Figure 4-30 Working

for balanced exposure of

color skin tones in digital

photography. (Courtesy

Kendelyn Ouellette)

Figure 4-31 A frame from Immersion, a short directed by Richard

Levien and photographed by Frazer Bradshaw on the RED digital

cinema camera. Shooting with untrained child actors, the fi lmmakers

capitalized on the ability to run multiple takes without using a slate,

which allowed for more natural performances from the actors. Richard

Levien explains, “Using fi lm negative with this technique would have

been prohibitively expensive.” (Courtesy Richard Levien/Frazer Bradshaw)

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