Film Analysis: Cinematographic Properties

Focus

Deep Focus

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

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Little Foxes (Wyler, 1941).

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Scene combining deep and shallow focus.

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Focal Length

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) Bell Tower Sequence
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View clip of similar effect in Jaws (Spielberg, 1975).

Aspect Ratio

	Frames from He Said, She Said
1.33 TV and Pre-1952 Cinema
1.85 Masked Widescreen
2.40 Anamorphic Widescreen

Anamorphic Widescreen

Original CinemaScope frame, displaying a squeezed circle.

Source: Max Smith, released to public domain on Wikipedia.

He Said, She Said (Kwapis & Silver, 1991)

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Letterboxing

Pan and Scan

The Mobile Frame

Steadicam

Steadicam use in ER:

• Behind-the-scenes
• The resulting shot

NFL NFC Championship Game: Green Bay at Atlanta, January 22, 2017. Steadicam operator follows Matt Ryan after a touchdown.

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Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

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Sample Analysis: Monster's Ball

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