Principal Photography - Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers

By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents in-depth interviews with 13 prominent cinematographers, who discuss their careers and the art and craft of feature film cinematography. The interviewees-who represent the spectrum of big-budget Hollywood and low-budget independent filmmaking from the sixties through the nineties-talk about their responsibilities, including lighting, camera movement, equipment, cinematic grammar, lenses, film stocks, interpreting the script, the budget and schedule, and the psychological effect of images. Each interview is preceded by a short biography and a selected filmography, which provide the background for a detailed analysis of the photographic style and technique of many highly acclaimed and seminal films.

List of contents

Introduction
Conrad Hall
Gordon Willis
Miroslav Ondrícek
Adam Holender
Don McAlpine
John Bailey
Dean Cundey
Edward Lachman
Garrett Brown
Fred Elmes
Sandi Sissel
Allen Daviau
Lisa Rinzler
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Vincent LoBrutto is an instructor of editing and film history at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent LoBrutto
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1999
• EAN: 9780275949549
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94954-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, Cinematography, television camerawork, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, Film history, theory or criticism, Popular Culture: Film