Textbook Assignment (Chapter Two: Cinematography)



This assignment covers the first part of chapter two in your textbook. As you read the chapter, answer the following questions in the right side of your notebook:

1.What make up film stock?

2. What are some of the common gauges for film?

3.Slow film stock requies considerably more ____than fast film stock?

4. How were some of the first black and white films given color?

5. What is the definition of a feature film?

6. Explain the difference between saturated and unsaturated color. When might you use one over the other?

7. Find an example of an image with highly saturated color and an image with a low saturation of color. Paste and label them both on the left page of your notebook.

8. In most Western cultures, colors are often thought of as being "warm" or "cool." Explain.

9. What does the word "photography" literally mean?

10. Explain how "hard" and "soft" light make a subject look on film.

11. On the left side of your notebook. Paste examples of the following types of lighting: back lighting, top lighting, bottom lighting, and side lighting.

12. Explain the difference between low key and high key lighting.

13. Which type of lighting tends to make a subject look younger?

14. Describe three different uses of shadows in film.

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