Film - Section 3 - Chapter 13, 2

Digital cinema & Mise-En-Scene: camera movement

Digital cinematography

The light hist a device called an image sensor that converts the light into tiny pixels.

Image compositing

The combining of visual elements from separate sources into a single image, creating the illusion that all those elements are parts of the scene.

Greenlight

The permission given by whoever is financing a film to proceed with the production.

Independent Film

Not a film that feels edgy or especially contemporary, but a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system

Synchronic

concerned with something.

Diachronic

Concerned with the way in which something , especially language, had developed over time.

Mobile Framing

The camera’s ability to move

Pan

A camera movement achieved by pivoting the camera on its horizontal axis, or from side to side.

Tilt

A camera movement achieved by pivoting the camera on its vertical axis, or up and down, with the camera remaining stationary on the ground.

Tracking shot

A mobile framing shot in which the camera moves forward, backward, or laterally; also called a dolly

Moving shot

A camera movement that results from the camera shooting from a moving object.

Crane

A camera movement in which the camera moves up and down through space

Steadicam

Fits onto a camera operator’s body (via a vest) in such a way that when her or she walks, the effect is that of very smooth movement.

***cinécriture***

"A well-written film is also well-filmed, the actors are well-chosen, so are the locations. The cutting, the movement, the points-of-view, the rhythm of filming and editing have been felt and considered in the way a writer chooses the depth and meaning of sentences, the type of words, number of adverbs, paragraphs, asides, chapters which advance the story or break its flow, etc.