Chapter 9.2Case Study: Documentary Feature – Tim’s Vermeer

FIGURE 9.2 Tim’s Vermeer (2013) Tim Jenison assembles one of the experimental optical devices he built. © 2013 High Delft Pictures LLC. All Rights Reserved

FIGURE 9.2 Tim’s Vermeer (2013) Tim Jenison assembles one of the experimental optical devices he built. © 2013 High Delft Pictures LLC. All Rights Reserved

Logline (from IMDB): inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

Visual style: using a variety of RED Epic and digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, the film uses a no-nonsense, unflashy documentary style that works effectively to accurately display the colors, lights and tones of the world that Vermeer created in his studio and which Tim Jenison was able to recreate ...

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