Introduction to Film Photography Direction
Positioning the camera and exposure (Scene 1, Romance)
A course by David Curto , Cinematographer
About the video: Positioning the camera and exposure (Scene 1, Romance)
Overview
“The positioning of the camera will also tell us things about space and characters. We will see how we put it into practice and what optics we use in our scene. Remember that every decision we make has to have behind the narrative sense we want to give it. The decisions do not have to be empty. ”
In this video lesson David Curto addresses the topic: Positioning the camera and exposure (Scene 1, Romance), 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
“POSITIONING THE CAMERA AND EXHIBITION (Romantic Scene) How you remember, we speak that the language of the camera that I will use in this sequence It's going to be a tripod camera. The idea is to have the camera completely still and have movement with the characters that move. I like the still camera and a choreography of the characters that interact and change the value of the shot, just by moving. They will start in the background and will approach until the first camera term to vary the shot. Here we will start with a general plan of them and we finish with a foreground, without using ca...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Film Photography Direction
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Photography & Video -
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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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