CAMERA
The first camera built
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Alphonse Giroux created a daguerreotype camera in 1839, which was the first photographic device to be manufactured for mass production. With each camera and its attachments costing 400 francs, Giroux and Daguerre secured a deal to manufacture the devices in France
To demonstrate how modern cameras are used, I've attached a few pictures.
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves such techniques as the general composition of a scene; the choice of cameras, lenses, filters, and film stock; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special effects. All these concerns may involve a sizable crew on a feature film, headed by a person variously known as the cinematographer, first cameraman, lighting cameraman, or director of photography, whose responsibility is to achieve the photographic images and effects desired by the director.
Cinematography covers:
- camera angles
- camera movements
- shot sizes
Camera shot sizes:
- Extreme wide shot (city view)
- Very wide shot (street view)
- Wide shot (subject head to toe full shot)
- long shot
- full shot
5. Mid shot (from the subject's waist till their face)
6. Mid close up shot (from the subject's chest till their face)
7. Close up shot (from the subject's shoulder till their face)
8. Big close up shot ( face shot)
9. Extreme close up shot (eye shot)
Camera angles:
- Eye level shot
- High angle
- Low angle
- Birds eye view / aerial view
- Worms eye view
- Hip level
- Knee level
- Overhead shot
- Dutch angle shot
- Shoulder level shot
Camera movement :
- Pan left or pan right (usually done on a tripod)
- Tilt up or down
- Slider movements (usually done on tracks. The tripod is attached to dolly wheels that move left to right or forward backward )
- slide left
- slide right
- Tracking movements ( the subject is moving whilst the camera tracks their movement)
- track in and out
- track left and right
- Dolly in / out
- Arc shot
- 360 shot
- Jib / crane / pedestal shot
