Week 4: Cinnamontography

Intro to Film 8 Week version Week 4

• Extra Credit as Extras!
• Cinematography, DP
• B&W, Color
• Film stock
  • Variables
    • Sensitivity to light, tolerance for lighting conditions
    • Color reproduction
    • Amount / direction of grain
    • Contrast
    • Sharpness
    • Resolving power (ability to descrimintate fine detail)
  • Kodak 5287 – Dark blacks (used in Seven (1995))
  • Kodak 5289 – Manufactured for NASA / Air Force, Vivid primaries, looks “raw” (used in Clockers (1995), Summer of Sam (1999)
• Lenses
  • Shorter vs. Longer focal lengths
• Digital / Film
  • Digital
    • Easier to edit
    • Sharper detail
    • Can use traditional lenses
    • 1080 vs 2k vs 4k vs 8k
  • Film
    • “Cinematic” quality
    • Harder to find + find processing
    • Costlier
• Aspect Ratio / Framing
  • 1.33:1 (Nearly 4:3)
  • 1.85:1 (Nearly 5:4)
  • 2.35:1
  • “Letterboxing”
  • rule of thirds
• angle of camera / movement of the camera / LX
  • 180 degree rule
  • (Use Videos from tutorials)
• Break
• Assign Essay #2
• Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby