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Daniel Arijon (1976)

Grammar of the Film Language

Meine Güte, ist dieses Buch vielleicht ausführlich! Jede(n) mögliche(n) Kameraposition, -schwenk und -fahrt zählt Arijou auf; ebenso wie Schnitt- und (Arg!) Zoom-Techniken.

Vielleicht nicht unentbehrlich für geschulte Regisseure und Kameramänner, aber unübertroffen als Nachschlagewerk und Problemlösung.

• Aus dem Inhalt:
• Film language as a system of visual communication
• The importance of parallel film editing
• Defining the basic tools
• The triangle principle
• Dialogue between two players
• Three-player dialogue
• Dialogue involving four or more persons
• Editing patterns for Static dialogue scenes
• The nature of screen motion
• Cutting after the movement
• Motion inside the screen
• Motion into and out of shot
• Player A moves towards player B
• Using master shots to cover motions on the screen
• Irregular cases
• Player A moves away from player B
• Players move together
• Solving difficult editing situations
• Other types of motion
• Twenty basic rules for camera movement
• The panning camera
• The travelling camera
• The camera crane and The zoom lens
• Action scenes
• Editing in the camera
• Moving from zone to zone
• Combined techniques
• Film punctuation