Chapter 06 Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography
Topics include: basic optics, image definition and resolution, color and black and white, framing, in-camera special effects.
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Figure 6.1
The physics of focal length.
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Figure 6.2
A wide-angle focal length emphasizes the depth between the front of the piano and the back...
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Figure 6.3
...as can be seen when contrasted with a telephoto shot of the same scene. Now the front appears very close to the back.
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Figure 6.4
A wide-angle shot of a man at a piano.
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Figure 6.5
The difference between zooming in...
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Figure 6.6
...and tracking in can be seen by examining the picture to his left. The tracking shot reveals more of the picture because the camera is now viewing the man from a different point of view.
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Figure 6.7
Depth of field is the range in front of and behind the distance at which the lens is focused. In this diagram, the focus is set at 10 feet, and the depth of field extends from 8 to 14 feet.
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Figure 6.8
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Catherine is sharply in focus; Gil is slightly out of focus; and the room behind them is completely out of focus until...
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Figure 6.9
...the director pulls focus so that he is in focus and she is not.
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Figure 6.10
In a GEICO insurance spot, deep focus and deep space show a man on the phone in the foreground and his wife, in a wheelchair, in the background.
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Figure 6.11
The Blair Witch Project uses low-quality images to suggest that this fiction film is a documentary—as is indicated by the washed-out facial features.
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Figure 6.12
A satellite-delivered image from Monday Night Football has been so heavily compressed that...
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Figure 6.13
...the background has degraded into small blocks.
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Figure 6.14
CSI shifts from an image recorded on high-quality 35mm film to...
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Figure 6.15
...low-quality video, suggesting that we are seeing what a character is recording.
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