Ever since I was little, I have been around cameras, sets, and lights. Being a cinematographer, my dad was always working on a camera or using one to shoot something. I always found his job interesting and exciting, which led me to pick cinematography for this paper. I also love being able to be creative and come up with new ideas or different solutions, and cinematography would allow me to do this on a daily basis. Researching this career opened my eyes to the history, current technology, and future innovations that cinematography has. 1. History Cinematography is a relatively new job, with photography invented in the nineteenth century and major film studios popping up in the early 1900s. A French man by the name of Louis Daguerre is credited with the first uses of photography, beginning in the 1830s. Daguerre’s method took anywhere from five to forty minutes to develop a permanent image. In the 1840s, Josef M. Petzval, a Hungarian, was able to cut down on this time, as well as produce a clearer image. George Eastman was able to develop a “lightweight, inexpensive” (Digital History) camera, Kodak, and paper film wound on rollers (Digital History). The first examples of moving pictures were exhibited by British man Eadward Muybridge in 1878. Thomas Edison soon came into the rising motion picture scene, developing the Kinetoscope with W.K. Dickinson in 1889. This new contraption was a “peepshow device” (Digital History) that used a light to show moving film. Edison also acquired a patent for a moving film camera in 1893. One year later, Edison and Dickinson’s Kinetoscopes pop up in New York City arcades. Shortly after, French brothers August and Louis Lumiere came up with the projector in 1895. This projector allowed film to ... ... middle of paper ... ...togr.html>. "Scholarships." Scholarships. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. . "Summary." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. . "Top 10 Cinematography Schools." Top 10 Cinematography Schools. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. . "UG Cinema Studies: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU." UG Cinema Studies: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. . "‘Life Of Pi’ A ‘F—ing Piece Of Sh–’ According To Cinematographer." The Inquisitr News. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. .
There first invention produced was the Technicolor System 1 Additive Color, which I’m sorry to say flopped massively due to the unfortunate screening of The Gulf Between in 1917 which only a few frames remain of this film today. This was the first public premier of the technology and was disastrous. The film was captured through two separate filters red and green and the light through those two filters was captured on a single reel of film, when processed this negative had red and green information captured on a black and white reel, when this was processed the reel was placed into a projector and then threw red and green filters. To project the image an adjustable prism that had to manually lined up by the projectionist as two separate images formed on the projection screen this did not work as planned as the projectionist failed to line up the images correctly.
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On December 28, 1895 Georges was an audience member of the first seen movie or “moving picture” made in the world. This was a very short single reel, one shot film documenting a train pulling into the station. When the image of the train started approaching the audience, the audience screamed thinking they would actually get run over by the train. This revolutionary new type of “magic” was discovered by the Lumiere Brothers, who used their invention, the Cinematographe, to capture the first movie ever made. Melies soon after asked to purchase a camera from the Lumiere Brothers, but they refused. In desperate attempt to utilize this new entertainment tool, he set out to build his own camera.
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Eadweard Muybridge was a director who made the first movie in 1878, The Horse in Motion. He used multiple cameras and put the individual pictures into a movie. Muybridge’s movie was just pictures of a galloping horse. Muybridge also invented the Zoopraxiscope,the first ever movie projector that made short films and movies. It was able to quickly project images, creating what is known as motion photography and the first movie to ever exist. To use the Zoopraxiscope a disc is put on the device and is turned. As the disc turns, the images are projected onto the screen and the movie starts ...
It is no doubt that Martin Scorsese has heavily influenced the emulating of American film making from European influences. He is a prime example of a ‘New Hollywood Cinema’ director, not only from his ethnicity and background, but from his sheer interest in this form
The art of filmmaking has been around for over a hundred years and now has over a hundred different specialized jobs in its field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “key grip, gaffer, best boy, boom operator, and director of photography are just a few of the jobs in the field of filmmaking that are essential to the process of creating a movie or TV show” (From Script #1). But before any of these people are able to get a job, they must go through an average of four years of college in order to specialize in film (Zeke). Filmmaking is a very complex and involved career that is crucial to the pursuit of happiness on earth and the telling of history.
The 1920’s and 1930’s was considered the golden age for movie production. In the 1920’s the production code started censoring the film makers. This stated that any movie written had to pass a certain criteria examples included: if containing sex, violence, and killing. Early silent movies were often accompanied by live piano or organ music. Films were black and white. According to A Short Stories of the Movies, D.W Griffith, never had the intention to make movies, accidentally writing and reporting for a Louisville newspaper led him to become a movie producer, and writer. He is known as the inventor of Hollywood for using close-up shots, which tightly frames an object; today is known as “zooming”. He also used cross-cutting, in order to make
Both Niécpe’s and Daguerre’s cameras took pictures on metal plates. In the same year Daguerre made his camera, an Englishman by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot made the first camera that photographed pictures on paper. The camera printed a reverse picture onto a negative and chemicals were needed to produce the photo up right. In 1861, color film came along and pictures were produced with color instead of being just black and white. James Clerk Maxwell is credited with coming up with color film, after he took the same picture three times, using a different color ribbon....
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