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NOTES ON THE CHAPTER "LANGUAGE OF THE
LENS"
from the book "Cinematography: Theory and Practice"
Frame Rate
Frame rate is the frequency rate at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed and is measured by “frames per second” (fps).
American films are generally shot at 30 fps, English and European films are shot at 25 fps.
Running the camera at higher than 24 fps will slow the action down and running at a lower than normal frame rate will speed the action up.
Slow Speed Blur
The shutter is open for longer than the normal time (+1/60th of a second).
Chungking Express (1994)
Shutter Angle
Most cameras run with a shutter of approximately 180 degrees. This means that the film is being exposed for half the time and for the other half, the image is being projected into the viewing system for the operator to see. Many cameras have variable shutters.
The more closed the shutter, the shorter the exposure and therefore the sharper the image. A shutter of 90°, for example, will be a much cleaner, sharper image of any moving object.
Time Lapse
This is an extreme example of slow motion.
The more closed the shutter, the shorter the exposure and therefore the sharper the image.
Camera Movement
Lens Height
Variations in lens height can also be an effective tool for adding subtext to a scene.
Deviations from eye level are asking the viewer to participate in the scene in a mode that is different from normal, so they need a narrative intention to happen.
Eye level is the most similar to human vision. This can become very repetitive for the viewer and make a film just a “people talking film”.
High Angle can reduce the subject in stature and perhaps in importance.
Low Angle can make the subject bigger in stature and perhaps in importance.
An example of a high angle:
Kagerō-za (1981)
Tilt
Because camera movement is always associated with POV the tilt is a technique that should be used very carefully used because human perception is much more sensitive to off-level verticals than to off-level horizontals.
If the camera is even a little off, walls, doorways, telephone poles, any vertical feature will be immediately seen as out of center.
Kagerō-za (1981)
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Heat-Haze Theatre 1981 ‘陽炎座’ Directed by Seijun Suzuki
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Michiyo Okusu in: Kagerō-za (Dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1981).
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陽炎座 kagerō-za (1981)
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Kagerō-za (Heat-Haze Theatre), 1981
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Kagerō-za (1981, Seijun Suzuki)
陽炎座 （鈴木清順）
Also known as: Heat-Haze Theatre / Heat Shimmer Theater
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Kagerō-za (陽炎座, Heat-Haze Theatre) 🎥 Seijun Suzuki (1981) ❤️ Good Night ❤️👑
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The Best of April 2020
Best Discovery: Kagerō-za
Runners Up: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Meyerowitz Stories, My Left Foot, Pin, Season of the Witch, Serpent's Path, Smoking/No Smoking, Someone to Love, The Tale of Genji, Twice in a Lifetime, An Unforgettable Summer
Best Rewatch: Naked
Runners Up: The Ballad of Narayama, Barry Lyndon, The Draughtsman's Contract, Drugstore Cowboy, The Late Show, A Man Vanishes, Nightcrawler, Ornamental Hairpin, Pulse, Shy People, A Snake of June, Vanya on 42nd Street
Most Enjoyable Fluff: Cocoon
Runners Up: An Ideal Husband, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Point Break, Unstoppable, Vanishing Act
Best Male Performance: David Thewlis in Naked
Runners Up: Pierre Arditi in Smoking/No Smoking, Art Carney in The Late Show, Matt Dillon in Drugstore Cowboy, Michael Gambon in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, Wallace Shawn in Vanya on 42nd Street
Best Female Performance: Ellen Burstyn in Twice in a Lifetime
Runners Up: Sabine Azéma in Smoking/No Smoking, Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin, Jill Clayburgh and Barbara Hershey in Shy People, Asuka Kurosawa in A Snake of June, Julianne Moore in Vanya on 42nd Street, Kinuyo Tanaka in The Ballad of Narayama, Kristin Scott Thomas in An Unforgettable Summer, Lily Tomlin in The Late Show
Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Greg Cruttwell in Naked
Runners Up: William S. Burroughs in Drugstore Cowboy, Katrin Cartlidge, Lesley Sharp and Peter Wight in Naked, Doris Dowling in The Lost Weekend, Dustin Hoffman in The Meyerowitz Stories, Martha Plimpton and Mare Winningham in Shy People, Rene Russo in Nightcrawler, Brooke Smith in Vanya on 42nd Street
Best Ensemble Cast: Naked
Runners Up: The Meyerowitz Stories, Shy People, Someone to Love, Vanya on 42nd Street
Most Enjoyable Ham: Julianne Moore in An Ideal Husband
Runners Up: Kiyoshirō Imawano in The Happiness of the Katakuris, Sarah Miles in White Mischief, Miranda Richardson in Snow White: The Fairest of Them All, Miranda Richardson and Martin Short in Merlin, Meryl Streep in Heartburn, Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Best Cinematography: Barry Lyndon (John Alcott)
Runners Up: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Sacha Vierny), The Draughtsman's Contract (Curtis Clark), Drugstore Cowboy (Robert Yeoman), Kagerō-za (Kazue Nagatsuka), Miss Oyu (Kazuo Miyagawa), Naked (Dick Pope), Pulse (Jun'ichirō Hayashi), Shy People (Chris Menges), A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), An Unforgettable Summer, (Călin Ghibu), Vanya on 42nd Street (Declan Quinn), A Zed & Two Noughts (Sacha Vierny),
Best Use of Color: Akira
Runners Up: The Ballad of Narayama, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Kagerō-za, Melody Time, The Tale of Genji
Best Locations: Ornamental Hairpin
Runners Up: Barry Lyndon, The Draughtsman's Contract, A Hen in the Wind, Kagerō-za, Lekce Faust, The House on Carroll Street, Pulse, Serpent's Path, Shy People, Sudden Fury
Best Action Scenes: Point Break
Runners Up: Akira, Extraction, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Unstoppable
Best Score: The Tale of Genji (Haruomi Hosono)
Runners Up: Akira (Shōji Yamashiro), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Michael Nyman), The Draughtsman's Contract (Michael Nyman), Drugstore Cowboy (Elliot Goldenthal), A Man Vanishes (Toshirō Mayuzumi), Miss Oyu (Fumio Hayasaka), Naked (Andrew Dickson), Pulse (Takefumi Haketa), Serpent's Path (Hikaru Yoshida), Shy People (Tangerine Dream), Smoking/No Smoking (John Pattison), A Snake of June (Chu Ishikawa)
Best Hunk: Wilford Brimley in Cocoon
Runners Up: Beau Bridges in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, Chris Cardona in Who Shot Patakango?, Moe Dunford in Dark Lies the Island, Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Charles Haid in Storyville, Gregory Harrison in Dangerous Pursuit, Chris Hemsworth in Extraction, Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Pat Laffan in Barry Lyndon, Tim Rossovich in Night Shift
Honorable Mention: Terry Crews in John Henry, Jeremy Northam in An Ideal Husband,
Assorted Pleasures:
- Close-up animal footage and microphotography in Science Is Fiction
- Cozily stagey sets in The Ballad of Narayama and Smoking/No Smoking
- Claymation sequences in Lekce Faust
- Bloody ukiyo-e backdrops in Kagerō-za
- Intricately rendered Neo-Tokyo cityscapes in Akira
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