Aspects Of Cinematography Techniques
Technical features of the cinematography: Aspect Ratio: Ratio of width to height of ratio (born aspect ratio) - an important concept in the film industry. During much part of the history of cinematography ratio of horizontal to vertical side of the frame is approximately 4:3 (4 units width by 3 units high, and sometimes it is even written as 1, 33:1 or just 1.33) - appeared at times of Edison and the Lumiere because of quite accidental causes, although close to the most popular format of the canvas for painting. The same ratio was taken by the television. The fact that the field of vision of human ratio is not 4:3; after all, humans have 2 eyes, located on the same horizontal line - hence the sight of human is wider and close to a 2:1 ratio.
Therefore, in the occurrence of strong competition from the television, movie was actively used a wide screen, in which gradually were established two basic formats: 2, 35:1 (i.e., approximately 7:3) and 2, 2:1. There are experimental films with different ratio (for example, panoramic view with 360°). However, a widescreen movie could not possibly lay claim to universal application, since it is suitable for large-scale epic compositions, but in no event for the chamber psychological cinema (not only because of general esthetic considerations, but from the elementary fact that on the isolated close-up a human face with wide-screen shooting in about two-thirds the frame remains unfilled).
At the same time, and the classical ratio of 4:3 is not always advantageous, and as soon as there occurred question about changing of the whole cinematography techniques, the cinema started to gravitate to the aspect ratio close to the golden section (this is about 1,62:1) In result is a format 5:3 (1,66:1), which was quickly taken by the West European cinema; in the U.S. format intermediate between European and wide - 1, 85:1 also became the dominant.
Digital Cinematography techniques: At the beginning of the XXI century with the development of digital technologies of recording, there appeared the concept of "digital cinema" or "digital video". It is defined as a new kind of filming, when the frames are recorded with a digital camera directly to a digital storage medium. In this case, film for shooting is no longer needed, and a film projector is replaced by a digital projector, or by using laser there is produced high-quality recorders for printing film prints. Modern digital cameras provide very high resolution of images, good color reproduction and wide (not available until recently) the spectrum of manipulating the colors of the image.
Digital technology also provides more opportunities for video graphics and special effects in movies. However, until now the standard film (35 mm) is superior to the resolution of all commercially available digital cameras for film production. But in fact, in the history of modern cinematography we faced with such films, which were shot with a help of different cinematographic techniques and which were rather great than films which were shot on special professional cameras, so great idea plus cinematography techniques this is a winning option.