Introduction to Film Photography Direction
Designing the cinematography of our story
A course by David Curto , Cinematographer
About the video: Designing the cinematography of our story
Overview
“This is the last part before filming. It is time to design our cinematography, the position of the camera and the location of each of the lights. Thanks to a design program I begin to draw how the set will be and what the distribution of all the equipment will be. ”
In this video lesson David Curto addresses the topic: Designing the cinematography of our story, 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
“DESIGNING CINEMATOGRAPHY In this lesson we will apply all our creativity and we will move on to the technical part. Let's start designing, where do we put our lights, Where do we put the camera and how are we going to do it. It is the pre-filming step, so it is important to have everything clear, so that we get to the shooting with all the duties done. We begin the design and planning of the two sequences. In this case, I'm going to use a program called Shot Designer, It is for both PC and Mac version, such as phone, tablet, iPad or the device you want, has a free version, which is very goo...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Film Photography Direction
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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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