This question deals with the actors in a full-body shot of the suits, however I am wondering how the face-inside-the-suit segments are filmed, for example: Iro
I want to know what kind of cameras are typically used to shoot first-person perspective videos or movies and how they are shot? Here's an example. The song Sm
How were the shots of the runners running towards the camera captured in Fritz Lang's Metropolis? Here's the shot: Was a dolly used? If it was, would it have
Recently I was watching a short film titled "Black Hole". In the credits following I came across one "Purva Desai" being credited under D.O.P (i.e. Director of
I recently watched the Planet Earth TV series. There are some beautiful shots in the different episodes! And one shot (or one particular type of shot) I'm curio
I have always wonder how they shoot the flyover sequences. Is it very difficult, is it costly? Me being an amateur filmmaker, can I shoot such a sequence? Exa
Does somebody know how that famous tracking shot down the stairhall in Frenzy was technically accomplished?
Are the same cameras used for TV series and movies?
Except for a few seconds in the beginning and the end, the movie 'Birdman' appears as a continuous long take. The only other movie I can think of like that was
Like in the movie The World's End, there were some people sitting in the shape of a circle then the movie's name is shown gradually, the O letter is similar to
I am curious how the camera managed to maintain such a close distance to Danny riding his tricycle through the hotel in The Shining. The camera seems to be pos
I came across a question linked here: How do they film the mirror scenes in movies? I found it interesting that most examples came from popular and from recent
In So You Think You Can Dance there is usually a camera movement I can't decipher how is made. In this case the camera move r
At 58 min 49s, the video above shows on-set footage of a film crew. (Link is setup to start playing from there.) For a few se
Do the cinematography techniques in Blade Runner use textual representation (image as text) or material representation (image as presence) in order to convey th
The opening scene in 2015's Spectre has a long continuous sequence which, as an amateur filmmaker, is difficult to figure out how it might have been done. The
This has always made me wonder, what is they key thing that makes a movie look like a film. To explain better, if you watch some camera footag
I don't have a youtube link (I think "The shining" has such a scene), but you all probably know this effect, the actor is zoomed in by the camera while the back
In episode 3 of Fargo, titled "A Muddy Road", the 180° rule is broken during this particular scene, at about 43 minutes into the episode (according to HULU)
David Fincher's magnificent noir movie Seven (or Se7en) has very dark cinematography enhancing the moral darkness of the story. I remember that, after its init