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Advantages in cinematography - creativity and meaning (framing, depth of field, composition of thirds)

creativity in cinematography means that you are able to control the creativeness and depth of a shot which is intended to create a more powerful and meaningful shot for the story being portrayed.
The advantages of creativity in cinematography is that its main purpose/ objective is to create a scene or explain one it should not distract audiences to divert there attention somewhere else. because lets say if you were shooting a movie and you had a series of beautiful shots it's useless because it didn't follow the script, story board and (location) recces. creativity in cinematography is also very important because every shot that you shooting tells a story, which tells you something about a character or a scene that is why we use and start with master shots so audiences can know the scene a build a story from that point.
Framing is where space is created for characters in this case space is created on top of the characters head, not a lot of space should be left because space should only be left when your trying to convey something in the background. it is good as it shows where dramatic energy is directed for the use of close ups, it is also know by the name 'nose room' this is initial in shooting as showing expression gives audiences understanding and a feel of realism with the scene/story.




Advantages in maintaining an audiences interest with a larger variety of coverage shots

the advantages in using a variety of coverage shots when film is that is allows you to be able to shoot different types of shots and shoot at different angles to create and add more effect to a scene. coverage shots usually come after the master shot as the master shot allows the audience to have a clear picture of what is going on in a scene. coverage shots that are used are:

• Close up: this is a shot that revolves the camera to be zoomed in on the characters face which gives audiences a clue/hint to what characters are feeling: anger, love, lonely, bored, tired, sad ... so basically it expresses to audiences what character are feeling.

• An Extreme Close up: this is when the camera focuses on the characters facial express depending on the situation at hand it is also used to show a character relevance.

• Over The Shoulder Shot:  this is when the camera is placed over the characters shoulder to gain a different shot type (angle) of the scene through a different point of view perspective.

• High angle shot: high angle shots are used to show the relevance of a character in this case showing that a character is superior, powerful, fearless. this is used a lot in film to portray a characters power.

• Low angle shot: low angle shots which is the exact opposite of high angle shot implies that a character will be portrayed as weak, small, scared. in which this is used to express how a character inferior.

these coverage shots allow audiences to be able to have a sense of realism towards the film making it feel realistic.
 

Advantages in creating drama and suspense in your sequence (variety of coverage shots etc).


the advantage of creating suspense in your sequence is that it gives the audience something to look forward to making them, want to find out ( grabs there attention) what would happen next. in filming suspense is created with the type of shots captured for example: match on action which is when a character is focused on a object or another character and the camera cuts to that object or other character to show what the character was looking at (view from his point of view/perspective) this is used alot in film because it explains a scene/scenario. 

Other coverage shots used:

• Close ups
• Extreme close ups

the picture below leaves you in suspense as yo are able to gather that some one is dead in fact killed by a female hence the female holding a gun   which leaves audiences in suspense as they are not able to see who killed this man or if it was actually the women or if she a cop investigating the scene. this makes audiences come up with many ideas of of what is going to happen, how it happened. making them want to find out more about the specific film's story.

Advantages in being on location with a small crew and minimal equipment (or getting either accidentally in shots


the advantages of being on location with a small crew is that you will be able to collect more shots implying that you will be shooting shots from different angles and also different shot types in order to build a scene because a scene is supposed to be dramatic and its supposed to tell a story whilst showing relevance of character or object or even showing the type of relationship between characters which is determined by the shot type. for example a two shot

this screen shot shows the relationship between this man and women which tells us that they dont really know each other because of the way the camera is placed in this scene.



Advantages in controlling the lighting separately in each shot 

the advantages in controlling light is that you are able to build a characters emotion (what they are feeling) depending on the light you use from the 3 light which are called the key light, the fill light and lastly but not the least the background light, these 3 lights all individually apply a effect that shows contrast in shades/shadows making a character look scary. at point like this you can then use coverage shots to add more effect adding more realism to a scene for example :

A mixture of background lighting, key lighting and fill lighting.






Advantages in having multiple takes of the action 

the advantages of having multiple takes is that it allows the video editors to have a choice of the best shots taken and also you can have multiple takes of the action but expressing them in/with different angles such high angle shot - implying a character or object is more powerful than another or an low angle shot which is the opposite - implying that the character/object is irrelevant, less powerful, not important. but what I'm trying to get at is that each take could portray a different meaning showing inferiority or weakness an example of this could be Scrubs:

Advantages in beginning with a master shot 

the advantages of having a master shot in the beginning is that  it allows audiences to get a clear picture of the scene/setting giving them a sense of what is called realism (making them relate an understand the film). this also shows the scene setting which allows characters to relate and build a relationship. in the use of master shots it allows the use of close-ups, extreme close up which is used to portray emotions by looking at facial expression.

Disadvantages in accidentally breaking continuity (180 deg rule, action matches etc)

When filming you shouldn't cross the line of the 180 degree rule called the line of action this is a invisible line that has been placed deliberately in the middle of characters. The 180 Degree Rule implies that two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If you don't follow the 180 Degree Rule, it disrupts the scene which means it disorientates the audience while the film story is distorting. When you break the 180 line, a person who was originally facing left in a scene is all of a sudden facing the right. 

 

Disadvantages in time required on- location to shoot multiple takes

the disadvantage in time required on location is that your limited to take shots as you have a set time restriction so first you would have to run through a whole scene you need in your film then if you have anymore time left a revert back to do different shot types and shoot at different angles to show more detail in the audiences eyes. it will also distort your video as if you have a location where at that time it is morning(sunny bright) but you run out of time on the location and you decide to shoot in the afternoon which means that you have not just breached a mess up for you film you have also breached the continuity in your film.


Disadvantages in amount of footage to log and edit (action matches, continuity etc)

the disadvantages in the amount of footage to log and edit is that you would have use a single camera to shoot just a scene but its because they have a series of shots so it makes it harder from to go through all just to find the best shot and on top of that they would have to shoot more as they would have needed master shot which is followed by coverage shots.



Disadvantages in having to plan more carefully (storyboard the appropriate number of shots)

the disadvantages of having to plan more carefully is that it would be time consuming as you will be aiming to get it right first time and that you would have to go through every little detail as thoroughly as possible making sure there are no mistakes. is that the script has to be perfect so the story boarder can determinedly add all the requirements needed/issued in order to start film if this is not done talents,character will not know what to do properly.