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Format: 1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 9780080497693

Note: Intro -- Picture Composition for Film and Television -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Invisible technique -- Learning the ropes -- A moving photograph -- Continuity cinema -- The shot -- The creation of 'invisible' technique -- Standard camerwork conventions -- Realistic representation -- Mechanical reproduction -- Framing a shot -- Composition -- Does the shot work? -- Intuition -- 'I see what you mean!' -- Why composition is important -- Control of composition -- Visual design techniques -- Cultural influences -- Changing fashions -- Summary -- 2 Alternative technique -- Jump cuts -- Alternatives -- It's magic -- Realism and imagination -- The film moment is always now -- Why people dislike the rejection of standard conventions -- Storytelling -- Don't wake me up -- Definition of alternative conventions -- Conventions -- Summary -- 3 The lens, the eye and perception -- Introduction -- The imprint of the lens -- The eye and a lens -- Size constancy -- How do we understand what we are looking at? -- Characteristics of perception -- Summary -- 4 The lens and perspective -- Perception and depth -- Depth indicators and their relationship to the lens -- Focal length -- Angle of view -- Depth-of-field -- fno -- Zoom -- Focus -- The structural skeleton of a shot -- Horizon line and camera height as a compositional device -- Controlling space with choice of lens angle/camera distance -- The internal space of a shot -- Production style and lens angle -- Estimating distance -- Accentuating depth -- Summary -- 5 Visual design -- Introduction -- Movement -- Sound -- Controlling composition -- Design techniques -- Grouping and organization -- Balance -- Figure and ground -- Shape -- Line -- Rhythm and visual beat -- Pattern -- Interest -- Direction -- Colour -- Scale -- Abstraction -- Understanding an image -- Summary -- 6 Frame , Composition and the frame -- Frame - an invisible focus of power -- Static viewpoint -- A hard cut-off -- Limited depth and perspective indicators -- Monochrome -- The edge of frame as a reference -- Frames within frames -- A second frame -- Frame and divided interest -- Summary -- 7 The shape of the screen -- Aspect ratio -- The shape of the screen and composition -- Viewfinder as an editing tool -- Could it have been different? -- The invention of a world format standard -- Widescreen returns -- Design of the TV aspect ratio -- HDTV -- The need for a universal video format -- 16:9 television widescreen -- A reasonable compromise between competing aspect ratios -- The divine proportion -- Widescreen - the shape of a banknote -- Summary of film and television formats mentioned -- 8 Widescreen composition and film -- Finding ways to compose for the new shape -- Widescreen advantages -- Selling off the redundant format -- Pan and scan -- Cinematographers alarmed -- Boom in shot -- The growth of multiplexes -- Common topline and super 35 -- Summary -- 9 Widescreen composition and TV -- Introduction -- Letterboxing -- Aspect ratio conversion -- Protect and save -- Shooting for two formats -- Composing for 16:9 -- Fidgety zooms -- Transitional period -- The viewer takes control -- Inserting 4:3 material into a 16:9 production -- Compilation programmes -- Distortion and definition -- Widescreen equals spectacle -- Screen size -- Endnote, or in a different aspect ratio, NDNOT -- Summary -- 10 Past influences -- Intuition -- Early influences -- The Rule of Thirds -- More recent influences -- Summary -- 11 News and documentary -- Fact and fiction -- Realism and fantasy -- Film as illusion -- Objectivity -- Record versus comment -- Operational awareness -- Realistic camerawork -- Technology as an aid to 'realism' -- Documentary programmes -- Professionalism , Engaging the attention of the audience -- Summary -- 12 Composition styles -- Visual styles -- Style and technique -- Technological development -- Staging the artistes -- Studio or location shooting -- Shot structure and editing -- Stylistic flourishes -- Multi-camera live television conventions -- The introduction of the zoom and television picture composition -- Portable cameras -- Customary technique -- Genre -- Summary of the history of style -- 13 Lighting and composition -- The key pictorial force -- Gradations of brightness -- Contrast range -- Exposure -- Characteristics of light -- Lighting technique -- Past influences -- Controlled lighting and composition -- Naturalism and found light -- Television lighting -- Any two from cheap, good or fast - but not all three -- Expressing an idea through an image -- Decorative lighting -- Summary -- 14 Colour -- How the eye sees colour -- White balance -- Colour correction -- Colour as subject -- Monochrome -- Colour and composition -- Colour symbolism -- Summary -- 15 Staging -- Introduction to staging -- Where shall I stand? -- What is staging? -- Staging people and staging action -- Figure composition -- Working at speed -- Summary -- 16 Movement -- Camera movement -- Invisible movement -- The development shot -- Accentuating the effect of camera movement -- Summary -- 17 Shooting for editing -- Invisible stitching -- Selection and structure -- Basic editing conventions -- Selection and editing -- Telling a story - fact and fiction -- News - unscripted shot structure -- Variety of shot -- Recap on basic advice for shooting for editing -- Interviews -- How long should a shot be held? -- Basic editing principles -- Types of edit -- Emphasis, tempo and syntax -- Multi-camera camerawork -- Dance and composition -- Summary -- Endnote -- Bibliography -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Ward, Peter Picture Composition Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780240516813

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780774852258

Content: Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped -- and been shaped by -- these changing spaces

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Housing and Privacy -- 2 Interiors -- Little House, Big House -- The Question of Crowding -- The Organization of Household Space -- Domestic Technology and Interior Spaces -- The Bathroom -- The Parlour -- The Kitchen -- The Bedroom -- The Apartment -- 3 The House in Its Setting -- The Farmhouse -- The Villa -- The Home in City and Suburb -- The Front of the House -- Porches, Verandahs, Patios, Decks -- Gardens and Yards -- 4 Privacy and the Canadian Home -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Additional Edition: Print version Ward, Peter A History of Domestic Space Vancouver : UBC Press,c2007 ISBN 9780774806848

Language: English

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