Film and Television Images: Grammar of Shots

Author: (English) Peter Ward
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: If you can create great works with a wolfish ambition in your innocence, then innocence is your path. But if you can never create something beyond your knowledge, then learn. Visual images have their inherent grammar and syntactic features. Just like learning a new language, we must cultivate our insight and application ability in visual language to convey accurate information through images. A perfect image arranges various visual elements as reasonably as possible. The photographer uses perspective, composition techniques, and visual principles to achieve an appropriate arrangement of lines, shapes, colors, and light 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.