Introduction to Film Photography Direction
What will we do during the course?
A course by David Curto , Cinematographer
About the video: What will we do during the course?
Overview
“In this course we will illuminate two scenes in the same space to transmit two different film genres: drama and romance. You will see how the different uses and positions of lights and camera generate different sensations and emotions to the viewer, based on a script. I invite you to explore all the possibilities from any idea. ”
In this video lesson David Curto addresses the topic: What will we do during the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Film Photography Direction. Learn to convey the emotions of a story through light and a camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do during the course? At this point, I will explain what I will do in this Domestika course. I have decided to write a script in which I have two sequences, a dramatic and a romantic, to start transmitting different sensations and emotions to our characters. In this project I find it interesting take a single space and transform it into two different environments so that we appreciate how through the light and the camera We generate different emotions to the viewer. I recommend that you have as a premise to take a single space, you can take an actor, two, three, do what you wan...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Film Photography Direction
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Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Film, Video & TV, Lighting Design, Photographic Lighting
David Curto
A course by David Curto
David Curto is in love with cinema and photography. He studied at the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia (ESCAC). A native of Spain, in 2010 he moved to Colombia, where he lived for 8 years. He currently divides his time between the two countries.
He has worked for brands such as Motorola, Honda, Ford, Avianca, Nestlé, and Heineken and has filmed music videos for artists like Sebastian Yatra, David Bisbal, Juan Magán, Aitana, Ana Guerra, Lalo Ebratt, Greeicy, Tini, and others. He worked as the director of photography on films such as The Boy by Craig Macnaill, Fucking Games and Anthropos by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, and Bad Lucky Goat by Samir Oliveros, presenting the latter worldwide at the SXSW festival in Austin (USA).
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