Practical cinematography
(eBook)

Cover; Practical Cinematography; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One People; 1 The Director of Photography

an overview; The DP's responsibilities; 2 The DP's preparation; Research; Preparing for a shoot; 3 The camera crew; An overview; The trainee; The clapper loader (AC2 or 2nd AC); The focus puller (AC1 or 1st AC); The camera operator; The Director of Photography; The grip or dolly grip; The gaffer; Crew protocol; Part Two The Technology; 4 The motion picture camera; The persistence of vision; Frame rates; The intermittent mechanism

The reflex viewfinderViewing screens; The film magazine; Film camera layout; 5 Lenses; Artistic decisions; Modern lens designs; Lens distortion and aberrations; 6 Film stock; What is film?; The history of the negative/positive photographic process; The basic photographic process; Colour negative film; Grain and graininess; When does grain become unacceptable?; Perforations; Edge numbers; Care, shipping and handling; 7 Basic sensitometry; 8 The laboratory; The laboratory contact; Printer lights; Contact printing; Optical printers; Negative cutting; Cinema release prints

The 'long-handled' negative cutFilm grading; Telecine grading; 9 Digital intermediates; Why turn a photographic image into digits?; What do we mean by 'digital'?; The binary code; Linear and logarithmic sampling; Image acquisition; The 16 mm DI route; Deliverables; Part Three The Cinematographer's Craft; 10 Exposure meters; Camera speed; Shutter speed; Average scene reflectance values; Types of exposure meter; 11 Lighting ratios; Defining a lighting ratio; Visualizing lighting ratios; Lighting ratios for film and television; Lighting ratios when shooting for both cinema and television

Using lighting ratios on the setControlling the whole scene; 12 Three-point image control; There's no such thing as exposure latitude; Three-point image control; Relating the three points to the sensitometric curve; Control for television; 13 Using the 18 per cent grey card; The messenger; Controlling print density; Shifting colour; Intentional colour changes; Developments in grey cards; Conclusions; 14 Colour temperature; What is colour temperature?; Filters and Mired shift values; The colour temperature meter; Colour film; Correcting lamps; 15 Camera filters; Colour-compensating filters