Film and Television Images (Grammar of Shots)

Author: Peter Ward
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: If you can create great works with wolfish ambition even in your innocence, then innocence is your path. But if you can never create something beyond your knowledge, then learn. Visual imagery has its inherent grammar and syntactic features, just like learning a new language. We must cultivate our insight and application skills in the language of images to convey accurate information through them. A perfect image arranges various visual elements as reasonably as possible. Photographers use perspective, composition techniques, and visual principles to appropriately coordinate the lines, composition, colors, and light and shadow in the image. In short, good image composition is about using the function of the lens to present objective things simply, strongly, clearly, and economically.