Day 4

Last class, discussed all about cinematography. We learnt all about how different lighting, angles, and lenses could effect how a picture could look like. 


For example, if you use the extreme long shot, it could make a person look so tiny in their environment, or what environment they are surrounded by. Like the example I used below. It's a ballerina in the middle of the street, surrounded by the city, making her look tiny amongst her environment. But there's also a completely different angle- The extreme close up. The extreme close-up angle could allow us to have a hint of what the person is feeling. The example I used below is a person looking to her right. She doesn't look suspicious, but she doesn't look extremely happy either. She sort of looks a little bit worried.


We can also take a hint of emotions and feelings by looking at the colors or lighting or music in a film. Judging by the colors in a background full of fire and blasting metal music, that might be someone very angry, and getting revenge. If it were red with pop/jumpy music with bright lights everywhere, it could be someone very happy celebrating a birthday, or an anniversary. And if there was a man with a trench coat on, walking all alone on the streets at night, with smoke filling the air, and lighting in the background, it could be about a mysterious/ suspicious person going on a mission, or about to kill someone.
So I guess even the smallest things in a film, like what's in the background, what lays on the streets, or even what the actor is holding, matters as much as the bigger things.