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The Filmmaker's Eye Gustavo Mercado

The Filmmaker's Eye By Gustavo Mercado

The Filmmaker's Eye by Gustavo Mercado

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Summary

This fully revised and updated edition of the classic book on cinematic composition provides readers with the necessary skills and technical know-how to create polished and narratively eloquent images, using a unique approach that combines an analytical, technical, and aesthetic understanding of the essential visual grammar of the shot.

The Filmmaker's Eye Summary

The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition by Gustavo Mercado

* Become an eloquent visual storyteller through effective and expressive choices for each and every shot in your film with hundreds of full-color examples from your favorite blockbusters in this easy-to-reference guide

* Types of shots covered include close-ups, long shots, over the shoulder shots, group shots, zoom shots, pan shots, dolly shots, tracking shots, and more

* The 2nd edition has been comprehensively updated with new movie examples of various shots featured, a new chapter on The Overhead Shot, expanded sections on aspect ratios, rule of thirds, shooting formats, and updated organisation into parts on sizes conventions and dynamics.

The Filmmaker's Eye Reviews

Mercado's book is a great resource for aspiring cinematographers. Using a brilliant selection of images, both classic and contemporary, he eloquently analyzes the conception and execution of a shot. Most important, he manages to explain how to achieve an aesthetically beautiful image, while giving equal weight to the powerful role of cinematography in portraying the characters and telling the story.
Florian Ballhaus, ASC, cinematographer of Flightplan, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Divergent Series: Insurgent

Gustavo's book explores and details the techniques available with excellent examples of what works, why it works and how one can break with conventions for specific effect. A great resource for all, from students of the filmmaking craft through to seasoned practitioners intersted in contemplating their own instincts and why they do things the way they do.
Denson Baker, ACS, NZCS, cinematographer of The Dark Horse, Ophelia and The Luminaries

About Gustavo Mercado

Gustavo Mercado is an award-winning independent filmmaker with well over a decade of experience as a writer, director, and cinematographer of narrative films. The first edition of The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition, was translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean, and is being used by film programs at colleges and universities worldwide. His second title in the Filmmaker's Eye film book series, The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and The Expressive Cinematic Image was translated into Turkish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ukranian. He teaches cinematography, editing, screenwriting, and film production at Hunter College's Film & Media Studies Department in New York City.

Table of Contents

acknowledgments; preface to the second edition; introduction; finding the frame; image systems; rules of cinematic composition & technical concepts; SIZES; extreme close-up; close-up; medium close-up; medium shot; medium long shot; long shot; extreme long shot; CONVENTIONS; over the shoulder shot; establishing shot; subjective shot; two shot; group shot; split-screen shot; canted shot; overhead shot; inverted shot; emblematic shot; abstract shot; macro shot; zoom shot; DYNAMICS; pan shot; tilt shot; dolly shot; dolly zoom shot; tracking shot; Steadicam (R) shot*; crane shot; aerial shot; sequence shot; filmography; image credits; index

Additional information

NGR9781138780316
9781138780316
1138780316
The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition by Gustavo Mercado
Gustavo Mercado
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-06-02
244
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