From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
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Make the best choices for your film
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
Make the best choices for your film
- When you're making a film, there's nothing right or wrong until you know whether it's telling your story or not. Filmmakers make films because they have something to say. The camera, composition, optics, exposure, lighting, and camera movement are the basic cinematography tools of filmmaking. These tools make up our vocabulary. We want the language to be clear and uncluttered. So filmmakers must learn to integrate these tools into the process of making a film so that the tools themselves don't have an independent voice saying something different from what the story the filmmaker is trying to tell. The audience should have no awareness of these tools. They should see the events on screen as happening right now rather than having been done months or years ago. The artificial nature of these events should be hidden from them. This requires careful planning before the production and careful collaboration before, during, and after the production. Filmmakers establish patterns in order to…
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