Photography And Cinema
Photography allows us to capture significant moments in our lives in still images and has filled the world with moving pictures through motion pictures (movies) and television.
The camera is a scaled box that allows no light in, except when the shutter at the front opens and you take a photograph.
The light reflected by the object in front of the camera passes through the lens, which focuses the light on to a piece of film.
The film is a type of plastic coated with chemicals that are sensitive to light.
In black-and-white photography there is just one layer of these chemicals, but in color photography there are three layers, each one sensitive to either blue, green, or red.
Together, these colors make up the full range of colors that we can see.
Light alters the chemicals on the film and when the film is developed, the image created by the light is fixed and picture is revealed, but the light and dark areas are reversed.
This is called the negative.
Projecting the negative on to light-sensitive paper produces a print with the dark and light areas the right way round.
Making a motion picture usually begins with a producer.
The producer chooses the storyline and finds the money to film it, the director and other technical teams, and plans the making of the film.
On the set the director is in charge of the large teams of people involved in production.
He or she directs the actors and makes the creative decisions that will give the film its character.
The set is designed by an art director, a cinematographer is responsible for the cameras, and there are sound and lighting crews and many others.
Once a film has been shot the different individual sequences must be put together in the right order and combined with a soundtrack.
This is done by a film editor, who works closely with the director to tell the story in the best way.
The editor's choice of which pieces of film to show and what to leave out can affect the character of a film, by building up the suspense, altering the audience's understanding of the plot, or speeding up the drama.
Part of the magic cinema is the special effects that enable a director to recreate dramatic action sequences, such as accidents and catastrophes, and fantasy worlds populated by dinosaurs.
Animation is the art if bringing drawings or models of life in film.
Cartoons are made by filming a sequence of drawings at least 12 per second to give the impression of movement.
Today computers are able to draw the pictures linking one action to another, making animated films quicker and cheaper to produce.
Clay models are animated by repositioning the characters minutely between each frame (individual shot).
The camera is a scaled box that allows no light in, except when the shutter at the front opens and you take a photograph.
The light reflected by the object in front of the camera passes through the lens, which focuses the light on to a piece of film.
The film is a type of plastic coated with chemicals that are sensitive to light.
In black-and-white photography there is just one layer of these chemicals, but in color photography there are three layers, each one sensitive to either blue, green, or red.
Together, these colors make up the full range of colors that we can see.
Light alters the chemicals on the film and when the film is developed, the image created by the light is fixed and picture is revealed, but the light and dark areas are reversed.
This is called the negative.
Projecting the negative on to light-sensitive paper produces a print with the dark and light areas the right way round.
Making a motion picture usually begins with a producer.
The producer chooses the storyline and finds the money to film it, the director and other technical teams, and plans the making of the film.
On the set the director is in charge of the large teams of people involved in production.
He or she directs the actors and makes the creative decisions that will give the film its character.
The set is designed by an art director, a cinematographer is responsible for the cameras, and there are sound and lighting crews and many others.
Once a film has been shot the different individual sequences must be put together in the right order and combined with a soundtrack.
This is done by a film editor, who works closely with the director to tell the story in the best way.
The editor's choice of which pieces of film to show and what to leave out can affect the character of a film, by building up the suspense, altering the audience's understanding of the plot, or speeding up the drama.
Part of the magic cinema is the special effects that enable a director to recreate dramatic action sequences, such as accidents and catastrophes, and fantasy worlds populated by dinosaurs.
Animation is the art if bringing drawings or models of life in film.
Cartoons are made by filming a sequence of drawings at least 12 per second to give the impression of movement.
Today computers are able to draw the pictures linking one action to another, making animated films quicker and cheaper to produce.
Clay models are animated by repositioning the characters minutely between each frame (individual shot).
