Cinematography

            Introduction to Cinematography

Cinematography in media is the act of capturing photographic images in space through the use of a number of controllable elements. When looking at cinematography, it involves a number of techniques to compose a scene; the lighting of the set or location; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special effects from editing. Cinematography has a huge role in film because it's basically how a movie is constructed from the ground up. 

                                                              Background Research           

 In filmmaking there are various types of camera angles within a shot/scene. 

A shot is an unbroken span of action captured by an interrupted run of motion picture camera. When looking at the different camera types, the main types are close up, medium shot, long shot, extreme close up, extreme long shot, high Ange, low angle, and point of view shot. For instance, medium shots frames person from the chest up. Conventionally, medium shots generally frame subjects from chest or shoulders up. 

                                                      Content Application

The content that I applied for cinematography is identifying shot types and angles. For this assignment, I used my phone camera and my subjects(classmates) to capture multiple shots and different angles of them. First I put my subjects in different settings/areas. Next, I used my phone camera app that had different lenses that zoomed out further for the extreme long shots and the other lens that zoomed in closer for the close up shots. After I have taken all my shots I inserted them into a document, labeled which one was which, and added a few examples.

                                                                              Reflection

My reflection is that the act of capturing photographic images in space using a number of controllable factors is known as cinematography in the media. Cinematography is extremely important in film because it is essentially how a film is built from the ground up. Within a shot or scene in filmmaking, there are many different camera angles such as close-up, medium-shot, long-shot, extreme-close-up, extreme-long-shot, high-angle, low-angle, and point-of-view shots.

                                                                    References/ Resources

https://www.britannica.com/topic/cinematography

https://www.polarprofilters.com/blogs/polarpro/filmmaking-101-types-of-camera-shots-and-angles