Basic Cinematography: A Creative Guide to Visual Storytelling

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nFOREWORD\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nINTRODUCTION THE FOUNDATION OF VISUAL STORYTELLING\nCHAPTER 1 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH BLOCKING\n	Section 1: Think like a director\n	Section 2: Visual storytelling through the blocking of subtext\n	Section 3: Hitchcock’s key rules of filmmaking\n	Section 4: Body language and blocking in Girl with a Pearl Earing\n	Section 5: Discovering dramatic action through script analysis in Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight\n	Section 6: Visualizing subtext through blocking and body language in Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight\n	Section 7: Body language and subtext in documentary\nCHAPTER 2 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH LENSES AND COMPOSITION\n	Section 1: Ten tools of composition\n		1. Shot size and lenses\n		2. Camera height and angle\n		3. Camera motion\n		4. Focal depth of field\n		5. Light and dark\n		6. Line and linear perspective\n		7. Layers\n		8. Weight\n		9. Color\n		10. Texture\n	Section 2: Shooting for the edit\n		1. Coverage\n		2. Eye lines\n		3. Point of view and cutaways\n		4. 180 degree rule\n		5. Jump cuts\n		6. Kuleshov effect\n	Section 3: Case study in lenses and composition from Jessica Jones with DP Manuel Billeter\n	Section 4: Case study in lenses and composition from Chef’s Table with DP Adam Bricker\n	Section 5: Case study in lenses and composition from Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight class reinterpretation\nCHAPTER 3 VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH LIGHTING\n	Section 1: The psychology of lighting\n		1. Foundation\n		2. Light placement terminology\n		3. Six elements of lighting\n			1. Quality\n			2. Intensity\n			3. Direction\n			4. Texture\n			5. Contrast\n			6. Color temperature\n	Section 2: Some basic tools of exposure\n		1. The zone system\n		2. Histogram\n		3. Waveform\n		4. Aperture and ISO\n		5. ND filters\n		6. Shutter angle and frame rates\n		7. Lighting modifiers\n	Section 3: Indoor day and outdoor day setup examples from “Fragments”\n	Section 4: Outdoor night case study from Jessica Jones with DP Manuel Billeter\n	Section 5: Indoor night case study from Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight class project reinterpretation\n	Section 6: Documentary lighting case study from Chef’s Table with DP Adam Bricker\nCHAPTER 4 VISUAL STORYTELLING WITH CAMERA LOG, RAW, AND LUTS\n	Section 1: An overview of a dozen key camera features\n	Section 2: Shooting in log\n	Section 3: Shooting in RAW\n	Section 4: Shooting with LUTs\nCHAPTER 5 WORKFLOW TOOLS FOR THE BEGINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER\n	Section 1: Preproduction for cinematographers\n	Section 2: Production for cinematographers\n	Section 3: Postproduction for cinematographers\nCONCLUSION\nINDEX