Factoid for thought
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Knowing your intention helps answer WHY you are filming.
This will determine your perspective. In this image example, the tight shot creates a level of intimacy and personability.
-Here, a man watches TV inside his house.
Decide how you want to film a scene and at what angleo. This
is crucial. Your shots decide the audience's visualization.
- (SHOT 1)A girl prepares to dive.
- (SHOT 2)
She leaps off the board.
45o-Tilt up
90o-Even plane
This is the most neglected rule. Why? It's the hardest to control. And your camera lens is just like an eye. Light has to bounce off an object and enter back into the eye/sensor to create images.
-View of looking up inside a baby's cradle.
shutter speed, ND filters and the iris.
Light can be controlled with camera cameracafilters
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The Birth of Video-1894
Did you know the first motion picture camera of portable size weighed nearly 16 pounds? It's called the Cinematographe, designed by Frenchman Louis Lumiere.
Jacques Rittaud-Hutinet, Le cinéma des origines, Champ Vallon, 1985.