Blog 4

Tim Baldrick

Dr. Langguth

Philosophy of Film

Cinematic

            For a producer to put together a great film there are many things that go into it. There is a great amount of time and effort done behind the scenes that people do not see to make sure that every little aspect of the film is perfect. There are many different techniques that we have gone through throughout the semester. These techniques put together with a good producer will create a great film.

            When people talk about the idea of cinematic it truly means the clever use of editing. This is what will make or break a film or what will separate a good film from a great film. Typically when an individual watches a film it is fairly easy to tell whether or not there is good cinematic quality to the film. If there is good cinematic quality to a film it will not only make the film better but will make the viewing of the film more enjoyable. The best techniques for good cinematic quality are indexing, scaling, sequences and bracketing.

            When we talked about the first technique in class we said you can define indexing as angling and moving the camera in on an object for a specific purpose. The main purpose of indexing is to get the viewers to focus in on an aspect that the producer finds important in that particular scene. When producing this is a great way to get the viewer’s focus and them to concentrate on what the producer thinks is important. The second technique used in this film can be defined as screening out everything in the picture and then just focusing on one key object. This technique is called bracketing. This technique is very closely related to indexing but at the same time there is a difference. When bracketing the producer will go through a different process to get the audience to focus on what he thinks is important at that time in the film. These two techniques are very close in use but both are effective in helping out the cinematic quality of the film.

Another technique is the sequencing. This is when a producer will strategically put scenes in row to show something he wants to get across to the viewers. This is a very useful strategy because it is not one exact scene he can develop this over time when producing. When we discussed the last technique that is used in this film we stated that scaling is defined as when they make the object bigger and zoom in on it. . In this technique the object that is supposed to be focused on is enlarged. This can help when the object that is supposed to be focused on is smaller and needs to be enlarged for the audience to truly understand what it is. All four of these techniques together can help produce the cinematic aspect of a film to help make it overall better.