Cinematic Techniques Used By Hollywood Directors

Cinematography is the process of making motion pictures. Filmmaking in the early years started out as merely recording stage productions from a stationary position. Soon enough moviemakers soon realized the error of their ways. They saw that it wasn't at all interesting for audiences or themselves to look at a picture that is stationary and so they began practicing the art of cinematography.

The cartoon creates a stylization effect, and has psychological effects on both the viewer and the presenter. People are sometimes uncomfortable with the sound of their own voice and other people are also not comfortable with seeing themselves on screen. The presenter knows though, that the best chance of connecting with their viewers in to talk to or involve them directly.

The effect of making you look like a cartoon may take some of the edge off the presenter. Often famous movie stars want to be shot with lighting or filters that modify their face in some way. It could be to soften the skin or remove spots but it creates a less realistic viewpoint with which they are more comfortable being seen in.

The viewer may also be comfortable with this cartoon effect as well. This is why comics have universal appeal. Cartoons featured in comics provide very basic depictions of people without the realism and they may be close to the depictions that we have of ourselves. This may allow us to identify with the comic book characters. So the cartoon effect may help both the presenter and the viewer.

Another element involved in cinematic techniques is the use of special effects. These are illusions used to replicate made up events in a movie or theatre production. Special effects are often abbreviated as SFX. Since the start of the 1990s computer generated imagery has become more relevant in the film industry. It allows the simulation of made up events to be accomplished more safely and the result is often more convincing than when using previous methods of creating special effects. As technology becomes less expensive and becomes increasingly sophisticated many optical and mechanical methods of creating special effects have gradually been phased out by computer generated graphics.

Computer generated imagery or CGI has changed the aspects of motion picture special effects. It allows far more freedom and control and it doesn't reduce the quality of the picture like optical processes do. The use of CGI has seen images of fantasy creations brought to life using computer techniques of animated cartoons or model animation. This technology was particularly notable in movies such as the 1991 blockbuster hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day in the character of the T1000 Terminator machine.

In 1995 Toy Story showed that the distinction between the live-action films and animated films was no longer as clear. Special effects used to create the planet Pandora in the recent blockbuster hit Avatar were created using CGI. Notable special effects companies include DreamWorks, Sony Pictures Image Works, Hydraulx and Image Engine.

Special effects are usually completed after the entire film has been shot. Therefore it must be properly planned and choreographed pre-production and during production. A supervisor who is an expert in visual effects is normally around during the planning and execution stage in production and the expert works very closely with the director so that the desired special effects can be produced.

The same techniques were used when filming the star wars movies.