Blogdayafternoon: KINEMA

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I will continue to write about what and why i love MOVIES.
Thank you.

cinematography, it is the visual stamp on a movie.

Psycho (1960)

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As far as i can remember i´ve always loved to see the opening credits on a film. The cinematographer, is one i pay special attention to it. Because i can watch in detail during the film how much the cinematographer has evolved from his last film.

Cinematography (from Greek, kinema "movements" and , graphein "to record" It Gives name to the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording a series of photographic images for the cinema. Without photography, there would be no cinema.

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

I his book "My lunches with Orson Welles" English director Henry Jaglom tells the story of having trouble with his crew on the movie set of his first movie "A SAFE PLACE" (1971) He kept asking for a certain kind of shot, that would be considered different. The crew refused to do it telling him "it´s not in the script".

SKYFALL (2012)

He went to lunch with Orson Welles and asked him

How would inspire a crew to go off-script?

Orson replied: “Tell them it’s a dream sequence”

After that, Jaglom told the crew "Its a dream sequence" And it worked out perfectly. The filming crew even gave him feed back.

Orson told him:

"You have to remember, this are hardworking people, they wake up early, are told what to do,they have rules. The one place they are free are dreams. Where things are poetic and abstract. If you give them that freedom they will work for you."

"writing with light, is.... it’s not about the amount of light, but rather, the quality of the light."

-Vittorio Storaro

(Cinematographer Apocalypse Now and The Last Emperor)

The lighting themes of almost all of his films, Mr. Storaro shared, has been inspired by the expression of light in classic paintings, such as: The Calling of Saint Matthew:

PAN´S LABRYNTH (2006)

I could talk for hours about which are my favorite shots but i find really interesting how they express their form of art. I´ve gathered several quotes from my favorite directors of photography. Maybe next time you catch one of this films you can largely appreciate that every frame in every film means something. It says and communicates the very essential thread of the story.

It must appear real and beautiful at the same time.

The Godfather (1972)

"The film should be brown and black in feeling, and occasionally hanging on the edge from the standpoint of what you see and what you don't see. A lot of cameramen work to increase the quality of the image, but in this specific case I'm working to decrease it."

— Gordon Willis Director of Photography The Godfather

"I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp."

-Roger Deakins Director of Photography (The Shawshank Redemption, No Country for old men, UNBROKEN)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

"The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It's more experimental than classical."
-Emmanuel Lubezki

BIRDMAN (2014)

"…The images themselves are not sufficient: they are very important, but are only images. The essential is the length of each image, what follows each image: it is the very eloquence of the cinema that is constructed in the editing room."

-Orson Welles

Citizen Kane(1941)

"Whether a director has a lot of experience or very little, the energy of the camera is always generated by his vision of the story. This is a very important idea that only came to me after years of experience."
—Darius Khondji
Director of Photography (SE7EN)

"If they understand the story and the scene, often times the crew will come to me and offer ideas i take to the director."

- Frank G. DeMarco

All is LOST (2013)

“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist — moving an audience through a movie, making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,”

-Gordon Willis.