Cinematography

Question 1

Cinematography

Answer 1

The basic unit of cinematography and the visual heart of cinema is the shot a continuous point of view…between two edits.

Question 2

Framing

Answer 2

Focuses on Onscreen space and off screen space.

Question 3

Onscreen space

Answer 3

Referes to the world visible within the frame.

Question 4

Offscreen space

Answer 4

refers to the world implied to exist beyond the frame.

Question 5

Camera Distance

Answer 5

Close-up, medium close-up, medium, medium-long, extreme long.

Question 6

Camera angles

Answer 6

High and Low angle

Question 7

Depth of field

Answer 7

Cinematography can focus shots to give audiences different layers of depth. In a deep focus shot, several planes can be in focus at the same time.

Question 8

Contrast and Colour

Answer 8

Contrast can be understood of terms of lighting ( as mise-en-scene) Colour can be described by hue ( basically, the colour) value (degree of lighting or darkness) and intensity (brightness or dullness).

Question 9

Reframing

Answer 9

Moving the frame from one position to another.

Question 10

Rotating the camera

Answer 10

Pans and tilts.

Question 11

Pans

Answer 11

Left or right rotation of the camera while the camera itself remains stationary

Question 12

Tilts

Answer 12

Up or down rotation of the camera while the camera itself remains stationary.

Question 13

Moving the camera

Answer 13

Tracking shot and Handheld shots.

Question 14

Tracking shot

Answer 14

Moving mounted camera

Question 15

Handheld shots

Answer 15

Shots, often unsteady, resulting from an individual carrying the camera without steadying mount.

Question 16

Moving the lens( Zoom)

Answer 16

Camera lens magnifies (zoom in) or reduces (zoom out) aspects of the image.

Question 17

Presentation

Answer 17

The image as (objective or subjective) presentation reflects our belief that film communicates the details of the world realistically.

Question 18

Representation

Answer 18

The image also can influences or even determine the meaning of the events or people it portrays by representing reality through the interpretive power of cinematograph.

Question 19

Presence

Answer 19

A close identification with the images point of view, a primarily emotional response to that image and an experience of that image as if it were a lived reality.

Question 20

Textuality

Answer 20

Demands emotional and analytical distancing from the image, which is experienced as artifice or a construction to be interpreted.