CHAPTER 5
Don’t Lose Me
In film, an editor stitches together various camera shots to create a seamless sequence of events that appear to take place in a certain space for a certain amount of time. This is a cinematic illusion created by carefully planned camera shots and editing.
Understanding Screen Direction
Manipulating Time and Space
In Chapters 3 and 4, we studied how cinematographers manipulate the space perceived in a shot. Through clever camera positions, angles, and composition they can create almost any spatial relationship between the elements in the shot. What about time?
Think about it; most movies that ...
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