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It is natural, when training for a craft or a new skill, to search for underlying rules and guidelines – to look for certainties in order to master and to measure the amount of progress achieved.
Camerawork is basically a craft but with its top practitioners it shades into a highly original, creative activity. Between learning by rote and the wilder excesses of individual subjective expression, a balance has to be struck between the dogma of ‘always do it this way’ and the anarchy of ‘I don't quite know what I am trying to achieve, but out of this creative muddle new, original work will materialize. I hope!’.
This book has discussed the constituent parts of composition. From the theory of perception to the inherited values of previous ...
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