Chapter 4 Storytelling with Light 121CHAPTER IN FOCUS
In this chapter you will:
- create a fiction motion picture, including script, pre-production
elements, editing, and sound design - investigate basic principles of motion picture photography
- evaluate the application of focus, exposure, composition, and
movement in cinematography
Light on the Wall
Shadows dance upon walls, and people look at images that tell of their lives
and imagined tales and dreams. At the dawn of humanity, people crawled,
torches in hand, into deep caves to paint and then see images of hunters and
their prey. Since then, we have returned time and again to darkened spaces
to watch stories illuminated upon walls. Now, you can sit in plush seats and
look up at the light and shadows playing as the sounds that accompany them
resound in a man-made cavern. Or you watch them in a brightly lit living
room, perched at a laptop, or even on your cell phones. Perhaps you are
dropped into your own cavern as you plug yourself into an immersive game
that envelops you in its world of moving images.Figure 4-1 Cinematography helps to establish style and tone in the
opening sequences of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep. (Courtesy
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