A Look At The History of Cinematography

July 25, 2008

Cinematography is defined as the art or technique of movie photography, including both the shooting and production of the film or video. Cinematography is from the Greek word kinesis, which meant movement and grapho, or to record. This is the method of making stage lightning and camera selection when recording images or photo for the cinema. The art of cinematography started last October 1888 at England. Many production-distribution-exhibition happened at Paris, France where cinema was born. Because of this, the European city was known as the motion picture capital of the world.

Cinematography is also called the motion picture, an art of producing the illusion of moving pictures. When motion picture was just newly born, cinematographer was the only person who handles the camera and the director himself. During the evolution of technology, separation of the director and cameraman started. As technology continues to grow and move forward to advancements, many techniques needed a specialist in each area. Color film and wide screen cinematography are just part of the advancements.

Cinematography includes two phases; the taking of the photos using a camera and the showing of the pictures in a wide screen with projector. Taking still photos at regular intervals while projector flashes on screen in the same intervals produces an image that appears to the human eye as moving.

Cinematography is broad and wide as an art of movie and photography. But recognizing this art will make us understand the movie and filmmaking, such as video and photography.

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