need is a camera that has a bulb setting (look for a B on the shutter speed dial), a sturdy tripod, and a remote shutter release. A remote shutter release is a way to trigger your camera shutter without having to touch the camera. In the earlier days of manual film cameras, it was generally referred to as a cable release. If you have to touch your camera to open and close the camera shutter by pressing and releasing the shutter button, then there is the risk of blurring the image. A camera that…
Performing for the Camera – Bukubuku (Bubbling) Performing for the Camera encapsulates the creative minds that began building the relationship between photography and performance while highlighting the eras of performance and photography that were most affected by technological advances and global movements. This exhibit encompasses far more than the growth of photography as it relates to performance, it spans decades, cultures, planned performances, improvisation, politics, and identity. The…
Photography had been around for more than a century and has drastically changed throughout the years. It used to take a ton of heavy equipment in order to take a decent photo. Not only would it take lots of work, but also lots of patients to wait for the photo to develop so that the person can see the image. Now it only takes a smartphone to take a good quality photo and it is not as complicated as it was years ago. Photography was mainly used to record memories and was not for social use. The…
and video logs. An up and coming filmmaker has a chance to choose the platform to establish a career in. Many filmmakers go into motion pictures but the rapid growth of users on YouTube makes it an appealing platform as well. Filmmakers deal with cameras and recording footage but most of the work is done in editing software. Shots need to be put together in a smooth sequence to deliver the vision in mind. Filmmakers must search for trends or ideas that are relevant at the time. With that…
Pinney’s mentions that Im Thurn argues that cameras are used by anthropologist to record lifeless bodies and that they are distracting from live culture (Pinney, p.36). Cameras are focused on capturing one moment, so they are like the death of the rest of the culture because that one moment gets immortalized. As in death the one moment a person dies is finalized…
research paper endeavors to give a better understanding of the film world by answering a three part question: How does a film director develop his style and use trademarks to portray or affect viewers to his liking, using tools of film such as music, camera angles, post production, and the like; What are the elements that make up a film director’s style and what makes an individual’s style palpable and immediately evident? And finally, how does the director use his style and trademarks to tell…
insight to what his condition of anterograde amnesia is like and how he differs from Sammy. It is implied later on that Leonard is Sammy and that his wife survived the attack. Leonard makes clear why people fabricate identification to the cop on the phone: “You bluff it to seem less like a freak.” In this case, he is speaking about Sammy and himself, but in a split second the audience sees that Leonard is referring to one person, not two different people (Tobias…
Step by step instructions to pick your picture taker. See past work. The principal thing that strikes a chord while picking a picture taker is to view his/her past works. Photography is a workmanship, not everybody with a camera can ace it. Albeit, computerized camera has upset how photographs are taken and gives more scope for picture taker to rectify their missteps after the shoot, picture takers still need photographic aptitudes and information with a specific end goal to catch the…
Kevin Tod Haug, the client VFX Supervisor, contacted Cinesite Montreal initially in (do we know the month?) to talk about ‘out of this world’ environments and ‘epic’ set extensions for Mrs Fadil’s afterlife sequence which was going to be imminently filmed in Toronto and in Oklahoma. Very quickly, we also got involved in the look development of the storm, which is a character in itself, alongside other sequences. In total, we worked on 18 different sequences split over 5 episodes (1, 2, 3, 4 and…
Rear Window tells the story of a wheelchair-ridden L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies, a photographer who broke his leg while trying to get the perfect photo. While recovering, he watches his neighbors lives unfold from his back window through binoculars and his camera lens. He soon suspects that one of his neighbors, Lars Thorwald, murdered his own wife. He sets out to solve the case with the help of his fiancee and nurse, and discovers the stories of the other tenants around him while procuring evidence…