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Plan for Today
Download New Syllabus from BlackboardNo lecture next weekComposition and CoverageCamera SupportThe Lens
Organic approach:
The story is in the shot
The idea of an “organic” and a “synthetic” approach to film storytelling comes from Andre Bazin’s “What is Cinema?” vol. 1 (Hunter Main - Library Stacks - PN1994 .B3513)
Synthetic approach - Build the story image by image…
Sergei Eisenstein is the classic example of a
director who believes in the power of a synthetic
approach to film.
Documentary Coverage
• Establishing shot• Detail shots• Following main action
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Example: Hiroshima Bound “UN Sequence”
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Tips for Shooting Handheld• Use your whole body• Keep knees bent and loose• Stay toward the wide-angle • Breathe steadily• Know where the shot is going (for pans, etc.)• Try different angles• Rehearse and do more than one take• Be aware of your shot & your light /adjust!
How to focus manually
measure distance from the subject to the focal plane (recording surface)
zoom in all the way and focus, zoom out OR use focus assist
*Note: make sure you camera is set to “manual focus”
As long as the distance between the camera and the subject doesn’t change, subject will stay in focus.
Focal length is the distance between the Optical Center
of the lens and the recording surface, and is measured in mm
These numbers are relative …
• A wide angle lens on a 35mm camera might have a focal length of a 25mm. A telephoto lens might be 100mm or 200mm.• On a 16mm camera, cut these numbers in half.• For the Sony Alpha 3000 camera, the widest lens is 18mm and the longest lens is 55mm (35mm equivalent is 27-82.5mm)
focal length impacts Depth of Field
Long (telephoto) lenses have shallow depth of field
Wide lenses have deep depth of field
Which was taken with a longer lens?
In which instance was the camera physically closer to the actors?
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
“One of the most important dramatic elements for me was the sense of entrapment those men must have felt in that room. Immediately a “lens plot” occurred to me. As the picture unfolded, I wanted the room to seem smaller and smaller. That meant that I would slowly shift to longer lenses as the picture continued. Starting with the normal range (28mm to 40mm), we progressed to 50mm, 75mm, and 100mm lenses. In addition, I shot the first third of the movie above eye level, and then, by lowering the camera, shot the second third at eye level, and the last third from below eye level. In that way, toward the end the ceiling began to appear. Not only were the walls closing in, the ceiling was as well. The sense of increasing claustrophobia did a lot to raise the tension of the last part of the movie.”