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5 Cinematography– what the director needs to know about it
When I was teaching film direction for BBC Television I was often amazed at how few of the student directors displayed any knowledge of, or interest in, photography. I was dismayed to learn that anyone should think themselves capable of being in creative control without any understanding of the basic process. It must be said that some of the worst offenders were theatre directors who were hoping to move over into the potentially more lucrative, but equally uncertain, world of films. If cinematography is a discipline that one has never investigated then I suppose it is all too easy to regard the process as nothing more complex than filming a play. Get a good script, a good ...
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