CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proxemics, Telephoto Lens, Long Shot
5 Oct 2016
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Composition how the frame showcases visual design, how the filmmaker arranges and orders elements in a frame: adds depth and creates involvement with audience. Staging: proxemic patterns: what space tells the audience about social relations; distance between performers within the frame, lines horizontal = calm, flowing vertical = dominant, energetic diagonals = in motion, unstable jagged = danger, conflict, movement. More shapes and planes create more depth in order to create more meaning. Moving right to left has more impact because it is the opposite direction of what we are used to. Moving toward the audience has a stronger effect than moving away from the audience larger shapes attract more attention. Photographing: proxemic patterns: relationship between subject and audience or viewer outside the frame; where the actors/objects are positioned in relation to each other. Within frame spatial relationships between actors with each other and with objects in the frame. Magnifies size of an object at a great distance.
