The way a photographer uses his or her camera can be the difference between a good movie or a great one. Gregg Toland, the cinematographer, won an Oscar for his work on the film Wuthering Heights, as well as created a new technique called deep-focus photography. Scott Higgins and Sara Ross of the Cinema Journal emphasize Toland’s influence on the film by stating, “Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography deftly creates the moody, ethereal atmosphere of haunted love in a film universally acclaimed as one of cinema’s great romances (pg. 174).” Deep-focus cinematography displays the images in both the foreground and background of a shot clearly. Toland’s use of this technique helped produce an atmosphere of volatile, captivating love. An example of this type of shot is while Ellen and Cathy are discussing Edgar’s marriage proposal in the kitchen, and Heathcliff is hidden behind a wall in the doorway of the pantry adjacent to kitchen listening. The angle shot from the pantry simultaneously captures the reactions of not only Heathcliff but Ellen and Cathy as well. The cinematographers of the classic movie era captured movies in such a way that little action was necessary to communicate the
The way a photographer uses his or her camera can be the difference between a good movie or a great one. Gregg Toland, the cinematographer, won an Oscar for his work on the film Wuthering Heights, as well as created a new technique called deep-focus photography. Scott Higgins and Sara Ross of the Cinema Journal emphasize Toland’s influence on the film by stating, “Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography deftly creates the moody, ethereal atmosphere of haunted love in a film universally acclaimed as one of cinema’s great romances (pg. 174).” Deep-focus cinematography displays the images in both the foreground and background of a shot clearly. Toland’s use of this technique helped produce an atmosphere of volatile, captivating love. An example of this type of shot is while Ellen and Cathy are discussing Edgar’s marriage proposal in the kitchen, and Heathcliff is hidden behind a wall in the doorway of the pantry adjacent to kitchen listening. The angle shot from the pantry simultaneously captures the reactions of not only Heathcliff but Ellen and Cathy as well. The cinematographers of the classic movie era captured movies in such a way that little action was necessary to communicate the