Camera and images

Camera and other images

The image and physical representation

Early images in the film are focused with sharp and visual outlines. But in aesthetic films the focus is intentionally loss to create atmospheric effect. This is usually done by blurring the images and object consciously taken by the camera. For example, the fog in the herbal of the film “Anna Christie” and the blurring of the heroes visual unconsciousness when he knocked out a dragged. The camera is mainly focused on center character describing other images and object of the film. The film “Citizen Kane” used so called deep focus. The modern specific camera lenses help the directors and cinematographer to maintain sharp focus on objects of fore ground or background of the frame. The use of special lenses drastically changed the idea of focused itself. Certain images can be shooting from few inches and presented as distant object and vice versa. One of the important aspect of film maker consider, is the total effect of the movie and the audience. The technical work of light is making the image more or less bright that placed important role in shaping the images. The greater amount of light it presents that shows the positiveness, the darker the amount it presents is so negativeness.

Film technology had a great impact on standard rising and modernizing the production of movies at great speed. The film industry now able to pull creative human resource for qualitative and quantitative production of it with the view that satisfied its audience. Even the screen was already state it standard ratio and the film moving through the projector was regulated at a fixed speed of 24 frames per second. Experimenting has become style or craze today, that’s why cameraman was given more freedom to express their artistic skills. But often they kept their art secret from others and develop all footage in laboratories by technician to maintain uniformity among product. The commercialization of film industry and mass production of the film has resulted into making big film studious with all the necessary equipments from atmospheric or artificial. Because of the fear whether condition and the natural sunlight more producers attracted to California from New York and New Jersi. The golden age of Charlie Chaplin, Keaton Sennett critics to generalized movie were death. But nowadays film products have became fully controlled and complete genre. To enjoy the film you don’t need training yet only the tactful people find the cinematic techniques use in the making films. Invention of duplicate images, lighting, scene, events even characters has become common phenomena. Lighting is used as a means of shaping the image in artificial ways through the effect of framing and composition.

The distance between camera and object

The distance between camera and object contributes informing the texture and the meaning of the visual. Between the extreme close-up and stands shot their lies infinite numbers of shots. The possibility of shots that can be taken between the two extreme can be compare to the spectrum of fiction that is how truth can be distorted in a work of fiction. The several of distance between camera and object not only permit the cameraman to shape our attitude towards the events but the very shape of the events themselves. The concept of how much distance should be kept between camera and object is matter of choice and freedom of cameraman. In conventional movies the camera was supposed to stand at least 10-15 feet away from the object. Such rigid concept rules no longer at present. Just 35 years letter, Welles and Tolland introduce extreme close up shots in which the entire screen was filled with just two lips. A particular event or object determines the distance of taking the shot. For stance if a murder or a rubbery scene is filmed with the camera kept in a fixed position more than a hundred feet we as an audience might get irritated or frustrated and wish to see from near distance. But we might want to step back and adjust our position if the object is not clearly visible to us. Film theory demands mixture of focal length so that it helps in shaping certain perspective and maintain distance from the situation presented. As viewers to some extent we are used to with these conventions and prepared to adjust our self.

The movement of the camera

We often term movies as moving pictures which mean continuous movement of pictures. In other words film records images in moving state unlike photographs. Here the main task of recording is done by camera. Movement in film theory is double way of camera and of object. The movement of camera takes place in two ways that is camera movement on a fixed base and the transportation or carrying of camera from one place to another. The movement of camera is not actual movement but a series of gestures. The camera can move along fixed axes of rotation but they often appear as movement to the spectator. When the camera rotates or moves the shape of the image changes just as much as though the camera was infact transported for example, the camera can tilt vertically on its base so that the image will be registered from varying angles ranging from directly overhead through high- angled, eye- level to low-angle shots. There is a popular believed that objects shot at low angles dominate the audience physically and psychologically. But the most remarkable image in the history of cinema is taken from an extremely high angle. The extreme shots taken overhead or very low projects certain attitude and perspective towards the things photograph. Most conventional and traditional narrative does not take extra shots. They mostly had eye-level shots.

The second kind of movement of camera takes from side to side in a horizontal form. This movement is undetectable to our eyes. This movement is characterized by great economy in exploiting physical space and revelation of an objects presents within that space. The base of the camera can also be raised up or down horizontally with the help of a special crane. The crane has a special place for camera and cameraman. Which are lifted up into the air from where shots of varied angles can be photograph? This provides camera more flexibility when camera has to move horizontally tracks are laid down foe the movement of camera along the front of the images. Similar tracks are laid down while taking shots inside the studio.

Reference-

Silverman, M. (2013). New York: Oxford University Press.