Basic Cinematography: A Creative Guide to Visual Storytelling

Cinematography is a crucial role in transforming script ideas and emotions into tangible visuals, enabling directors to achieve their vision. Composition, lenses, and lighting are essential in expressing and revealing the underlying emotions and subtext of a story. Basic Cinematography aims to train cinematographers as visual storytellers, providing a strong foundation for creative ideas and choices on set. The book offers tools, tables, and worksheets to enhance visual storytelling possibilities for both students and experienced filmmakers. It includes dramatic script analysis, ten composition tools, psychological impact of lenses, shot sizes, and camera movement, six elements of lighting, camera log, RAW, and LUTs, dramatic analysis charts, scene composition charts, case studies, and insights from directors like Manuel Billeter and Adam Bricker.