Learning the nuances of balancing the frame.
Program Details:
- First we will look at stills frames from notable films and, remembering that everything in the frame has been “placed” there with a purpose, we will study the composition of that frame. We will analyze what makes a composition “beautiful”, and how different arrangements create different emotions in the viewer– what makes a scene powerful, or wistful, or upsetting?
- We will discuss concepts like headroom, leadroom, camera operating, and will demonstrate with a DSLR and monitor all of these concepts.
- We will illustrate the importance of the background and the architecture in achieving strong compositions.
- We will talk about the different lenses in cinematography, including long lenses, rack focusing, wide angles, and view various film clips to see how they are commonly used and demonstrate with a DSLR. The concept "field of view" will be discussed.
- Then we will create some "weak" compositions with a DSLR camera and a monitor, and demonstrate how to make them more powerful.
- Then we will move on to camera and actor choreography, which is the dynamic aspect of composition, and is one of the things that gives film its distinct appeal. We will illustrate how to move the camera; how to move the actors, and how to move them together. The use of the zoom lens will also be discussed and demonstrated.
- We will view various scenes from famous films, and dissect their use of choreography.
- Then we will demonstrate with the use of a DSLR camera and a monitor, the various techniques of camera/actor choreography.
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Saturday, Oct. 29th, 2011, 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
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"As a Director of Photography one should always go into a lighting
set-up with a firm plan in mind, but be ready to throw it out the window
if necessary. It is often the innumerable chance occurrences that happen
as the lighting progresses that are the stuff that brilliance is made
up of."
"With the new technologies at hand, current film students have
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in future filmmaking."
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About the Instructor Peter Stein, ASC
As the Director of Photography on over 50 feature films, TV movies,
and documentaries, Peter Stein, ASC has photographed classic cult films
in various genres, including comedy and horror, as well as major studio
and independent releases, and noted documentaries. He was invited to join
the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers in 1999.
One of his first feature films as a Director of Photography was the horror
film classic Friday the 13th Part 2, the second largest grossing
film in 1981 for Paramount. He then went on to shoot the literary comedy Reuben, Reuben for 20th Century Fox, which was nominated for
two Academy Awards: Best Actor, Tom Conti, and Best Screenplay, Julis
Epstein (Casablanca), and was the film debut of the actress Kelly McGillis.
Among other horror genre films he shot are Stephen King's blockbuster
hit Pet Sematary, C.H.U.D. and Steven King's Graveyard Shift. He was the DP on two of Touchstone's children's movies, Ernest
Saves Christmas and Ernest Goes to Jail and New Line's hit
children's comedy Mr. Nanny starring Hulk Hogan and Sherman Helmsley.
Among other films he shot are Paramount's football comedy Necessary
Roughness with Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia and Kathy Ireland, and
Orion's A Great Wall, directed by Peter Wang, the first Chinese/American
co-production.
His TV films include Izzy and Moe, with Jackie Gleason and Art
Carney, The Con starring William Macy and Rebecca De Mornay, The Last Fling with John Ritter and Connie Selleca, Parent
Trap Two with Haley Mills,and Private Contentment with Peter
Gallagher for PBS' American Playhouse - directed by Tony Award winning
director Vivian Matalon. Peter also lensed the groundbreaking NBC special
event mini-series Under Siege with E. G. Marshall, Hal Holbrook,
and Peter Strauss, and was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards.
He has photographed numerous documentaries such as the critically acclaimed A Midwife's Tale for PBS' American Experience and the feature
documentary Just Crazy about Horses which played theatrically
in New York and LA. Among other documentary work is HBO's Laughs and The Mystery of the Morro Castle. He also shot the PBS documentary Tupperware which was the front cover story in theSunday NY TIMES
television section.
Peter Stein, ASC has taught at SUNY Purchase and The School of Visual
Arts, and has lectured on cinematography at many of the area's universities.
He has been on the NYU graduate faculty since 2002 where he is Head of
Production. Currently he is producing and directing a documentary
film for American Public Television about his father the noted photographer
Fred Stein.
Credits Include:
DOCUMENTARIES
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story - PBS 2007
Tupperware!, PBS Playhouse - 2004
Politics of Cancer - Theatrical Release - 1994
Streetsmart Kids - HBO Special, 1985
Laughs - HBO Special, 1981
Just Crazy About Horses - Theatrical Release - 1978
FEATURE FILMS
Mr. Nanny - Comedy, starring Hulk Hogan,
New Line Cinema, 1993
Missing Pieces - Comedy starring Eric Idle and Lauren
Hutton, Orion Pictures, 1991
Necessary Roughness - Comedy starring Scott Bakula,
Paramount Pictures, 1991
Stephen King's Graveyard Shift - Paramount Pictures, 1990
Ernest Goes to Jail - Comedy starring Jim Varney,Touchstone
Pictures, 1990
After the Rain - Starring Ned Beatty, Brian Keith,
New Century Vista, 1990
Pet Sematary - written by Stephen King, Paramount
Pictures, 1989
Ernest Saves Christmas - Comedy starring Jim Varney,
Touchstone Pictures, 1988
The Wild Pair - Starring Beau Bridges, Trans World
Entertainment 1987
A Great Wall - Orion Pictures, 1986
Billions for Boris - Starring Lee Grant, Comworld
Pictures, 1985
Wildrose - Starring Lisa Eichorn and Tom Bower
C.H.U.D. - Starring John Heard, Daniel Stern, New World
Pictures, 1984
Reuben, Reuben - Starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis,
20th Century Fox, 1983
Friday the 13th - Part 2 - Paramount Pictures, 1981
TV MOVIES
Cold Feet - TV Pilot, NBC
The Con - USA Movie, 1998
A Midwife's Tale - The American Experience - PBS, 1996
Harambee! - PBS, 1996
Desparate Choices - NBC, 1992
Night Visions - MGM Television for NBC, 1990
The Call - Showtime, 1989
Elvis and Me - New World Television, ABC, 1988
The Last Fling - ABC Movie of the Week, 1985
Under Siege - NBC Special Event, 1986
The Parent Trap 2 - ABC Disney Movie, 1986
Izzy and Moe - CBS Movie of the Week, 1985
Private Contentment - PBS Playhouse, 1982
A Good Dissonance Like a Man - PBS Special, 1977
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