From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
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The audience's experience
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
The audience's experience
- It's useful to give serious thought to how what you know, differs from what the audience knows. Standing on our sets, we know things the audience won't unless we show them. If the cinematographer can keep reminding himself that his experience of the movie is not the same as the audience's experience, he has a much better chance of providing a satisfying story to that audience. Exposition is the information that the audience needs to move forward in the story. One of the functions of the shots we make, has to be to provide certain key pieces of information the audience needs in order to understand what's happening in the movie. Are there things that we take for granted? Simply because we can turn our heads and see things that are outside the camera frame that we aren't sharing with the audience. The cinematographer first sees the context in which the scene he's shooting is happenening. He's seeing the outside of the interior he's shooting. His feelings about the place are affected by…
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