This interactive, educational CD-ROM provides a detailed description of the cinematographer’s tools and their application in the art of filmmaking. The course is broken into four key components and a glossary of terms, each section ends with a self-check exercise. Topics covered include:

Cinematography Overview

• Artistic and technological elements of cinematography.
• Creating "look's" and moods.

Cinematography During Pre-Production

• Collaborating with the Director
• Film stock tests, including Gray Card Plus Film Speed Test, Gray Towel Test, Emulsion Test for Latitude and ‘Look’, and Depth of Field Test.
• Selecting and Testing Filters
• ‘Motivated lighting’ and ‘lighting planes’ techniques.
• Identifying Equipment Needs

Cinematography During Production

• Illustrate a motion picture shot breakdown, scene and sequence.
• Block, light, rehearse, shoot.
• Camera angles, shot sizes and moving shots
• Guidelines for composing images including leading line, framing, balanced, triangles, room-to-move, and depth of field.
• Maintaining Visual Continuity

Cinematography During Post-Production

• Alternative processing techniques including push process, pull process, silver retention process, and cross-process.
• Communicating with the Lab, the Colorist and the Editor

Glossary of Terms

CD-ROM System Requirements

Windows

• 486/66 or higher processor, including Intel Pentium processor
• Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, or Windows NT 4 or later
• 16 MB RAM required
• CD-ROM 4X or higher
• Minimum 24-bit color display
• 800 X 600 screen resolution

Macintosh

• Power Macintosh (G3 or higher)
• MacOS 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.x or OS X (classic mode only)
• CD-ROM 4X or higher
• Minimum 24-bit color display
• 800 X 600 screen resolution