For Christmas I recently received an interesting book on Cinematography, called 'Master Shots' by Christopher Kenworthy. Inside the book there are some amazing examples of shots and how to achieve them, including layouts and framing.
My film is very heavily dialogue based, which I feel might be quite hard to make visually interesting. In this book however, there is a whole section dedicated to shooting dialogue. I have included an interesting section below:
There's also a very interesting section on representation of characters through camera shots and movement and this is something that I could use with various representation theories such as:
“Old people in our culture are also segregated and treated as though they are waiting to die. There are close associations between dependency, illness, dying and death. It seems that increasingly in our culture there are pressures that encourage a reversion to infantile feelings which have to be madly defended against.” (Evans 1998) This theory is made incredibly relevant through the age of my elderly character and the use of carefully constructed camera angles could really help to build on this representation theory.
I feel that this book might become very useful to me when I'm doing the storyboarding process, helping me to create interesting and professional shots.
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