Director of Photography

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 431.

Exercise 58. Read the article and make sure you know all the highlighted words.

Giving a job description of a cinematographer is a bit difficult because the term “cinematographer” can apply to various jobs ranging from camera operator to director of photography. Most often, the term refers to the director of photography, or top cinematographer on a film, so let's focus on that.

Basically, cinematography means bringing a story to life visually. The word's Greek roots are “kinema” (movement) and “graph” (writing). Bringing movement to screenwriter's script requires more than simply shooting photos or video of a scene. The primary cinematographer, or director of photography, works with the film's director to capture the underlying story in a way that will captivate the movie audience. Camera operators and cinematographers for specific scenes or types of scenes work to fulfill the overall vision.

The director of photography has a lot of specific responsibilities related to making a movie. In fact, the cinematographer's job starts before a single frame of film is shot.