- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Invisible technique
- Learning the ropes
- A moving photograph
- Continuity cinema
- The shot
- The creation of 'invisible' technique
- Standard camerwork conventions
- Realistic representation
- Mechanical reproduction
- Framing a shot
- Composition
- Does the shot work?
- Intuition
- 'I see what you mean!'
- Why composition is important
- Control of composition
- Visual design techniques
- Cultural influences
- Changing fashions
- Summary
- 2 Alternative technique
- 3 The lens, the eye and perception
- 4 The lens and perspective
- Perception and depth
- Depth indicators and their relationship to the lens
- Focal length
- Angle of view
- Depth-of-field
- fno
- Zoom
- Focus
- The structural skeleton of a shot
- Horizon line and camera height as a compositional device
- Controlling space with choice of lens angle/camera distance
- The internal space of a shot
- Production style and lens angle
- Estimating distance
- Accentuating depth
- Summary
- 5 Visual design
- 6 Frame
- 7 The shape of the screen
- Aspect ratio
- The shape of the screen and composition
- Viewfinder as an editing tool
- Could it have been different?
- The invention of a world format standard
- Widescreen returns
- Design of the TV aspect ratio
- HDTV
- The need for a universal video format
- 16:9 television widescreen
- A reasonable compromise between competing aspect ratios
- The divine proportion
- Widescreen – the shape of a banknote
- Summary of film and television formats mentioned
- 8 Widescreen composition and film
- 9 Widescreen composition and TV
- Introduction
- Letterboxing
- Aspect ratio conversion
- Protect and save
- Shooting for two formats
- Composing for 16:9
- Fidgety zooms
- Transitional period
- The viewer takes control
- Inserting 4:3 material into a 16:9 production
- Compilation programmes
- Distortion and definition
- Widescreen equals spectacle
- Screen size
- Endnote, or in a different aspect ratio, NDNOT
- Summary
- 10 Past influences
- 11 News and documentary
- 12 Composition styles
- Visual styles
- Style and technique
- Technological development
- Staging the artistes
- Studio or location shooting
- Shot structure and editing
- Stylistic flourishes
- Multi-camera live television conventions
- The introduction of the zoom and television picture composition
- Portable cameras
- Customary technique
- Genre
- Summary of the history of style
- 13 Lighting and composition
- The key pictorial force
- Gradations of brightness
- Contrast range
- Exposure
- Characteristics of light
- Lighting technique
- Past influences
- Controlled lighting and composition
- Naturalism and found light
- Television lighting
- Any two from cheap, good or fast – but not all three
- Expressing an idea through an image
- Decorative lighting
- Summary
- 14 Colour
- 15 Staging
- 16 Movement
- 17 Shooting for editing
- Invisible stitching
- Selection and structure
- Basic editing conventions
- Selection and editing
- Telling a story – fact and fiction
- News – unscripted shot structure
- Variety of shot
- Recap on basic advice for shooting for editing
- Interviews
- How long should a shot be held?
- Basic editing principles
- Types of edit
- Emphasis, tempo and syntax
- Multi-camera camerawork
- Dance and composition
- Summary
- Endnote
- Bibliography
- Index
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