Moving Images, Understanding Media

20 Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding Media

perspective are depicted and utilized have been studied for centuries and

can provide many lessons. For example, one common strategy shared with

artists of other visual media is to divide the frame into three equal parts

horizontally and vertically.

Figure 1-24 Live

high school morning

announcements. (Courtesy of

Carl Casinghino).

Figure 1-25 Frame from

a digital short separated

into thirds. Note the strong

placement of the foreground

actor at the top right

intersection point. (Courtesy

Brian Spellman and Ryan

Sindler).

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