Chapter 19
Visions of Light: Cinematography
In This Chapter
• Why add light to your film?
• Four qualities of light you can control
• Three-point lighting as a foundation
• Qualities of the image you can work with
• Continuity editing: maintaining the illusion of continuous time and space
• Tips to look like a pro
Cinematography is all about getting the shot, and a good one at that. Due to the expense of filmstock and processing, directors shooting their movie in film rarely have the luxury of using multiple cameras. Occasionally you might see an exception for those stunts or scenes that cannot be easily repeated. But most of the films we see are shot with a single camera, moving the lights and camera for each shot. As a result, we try to make the ...
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