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Klappentext The Five C's of Cinematography is one of the three most important books on cinematic technique ever published -- American CinematographerMr. Mascelli provides the attentive reader with the equivalent of a complete course in filmmaking. -- New York TimesThe Five C's is the most widely respected book on cinematography ever published. With the aid of hundreds of photographs and diagrams, it clearly and concisely presents al of the essential concepts and techniques of motion picture camera work.Used copies of this timeless, long-out-of-print volume, which was first published in 1965, have been fetching hundreds of dollars per copy from students and teachers of cinematography and filmmaking. Now it is published for the first time in a paperback edition.The five C's, and some of the related subjects this book covers, are: Camera Angles -- Objective, Subjective, Point-of-View, Subject Size, Subject Angle, Camera HeightContinuity -- Cinematic Time and Space, Filming Action, Master Scenes, Screen Direction, Transitional DevicesCutting -- Types of Editing, Cross-Cutting, Cutting on ActionClose-ups -- Over-the-Shoulder, Cut-in, CutawayComposition -- Compositional Rules, Compositional Language, Types of Balance, Attracting or Switching the Center of Interest. Zusammenfassung With the aid of photographs and diagrams, this text concisely presents concepts and techniques of motion picture camerawork and the allied areas of film-making with which they interact with and impact. Included are discussions on: cinematic time and space; compositional rules; and types of editing.
