Film Assignment: Movies And Meaning

NameInstitutionCourseDate AbstractCinematography is a technique that involves photography and filming of motion pictures by electronic means of an image sensor or by chemical means of light-sensitive material (Prince, 2015). It’s an art used in the capturing, manipulation, and storage of moving images to create motion pictures. The goals of cinematography are to engage the audience through manipulation and establishment of unified and memorable design and manipulate the emotions of viewers. Below are the main elements of cinematography reviewed in the video. The element are; film stocks and lenses, lighting design, and color. Film Stocks and lensesFilm stock is an analog strip of a transparent plastic film base that is used for record pictures in motion or animation. Selecting a single or more stock for production give control to the cinematographer over a wide range of image characteristics (Prince, 2015).Stocks have different levels of sensitiveness, lighting design, color technique, ability to handle diverse conditions of light, level of grain, level of contrast, and resolving power. A good cinematographer selects a specific stock in relation to how it can handle characteristics, also, if it is suitable for the design of a