Welcome to my Open College of Arts (OCA) Blog for ‘Setting the Scene’.
Visions of Light (1992) This is a DVD copy of a documentary film about the history and development cinematography techniques as practiced by the cinematographers (or as they are some known the CPs). This is a very interesting documentary that tells the story from the earliest moments in the history of cinema up to the … More Visions of Light
Alexander Mackendrick On Film-Making, 2004, Edited by Paul Cronin, London: Faber & Faber, ISBN: 0-571-21561-0. I wish that I had found and read this book whilst doing this course. This is a very good book for a student film-maker to read. It helps the novice with writing a screenplay, planning and shooting a scene and … More Alexander Mackendrick On Film-Making
‘The Works of the Motion Picture Cameraman’ by Freddie Young & Paul Petzold, published by Focal Press, ISBN: 0 240 50766 5. I found this book in a Charity bookshop. This book was published in 1972 and although some of the book is out of date regarding modern film-making methods there is still a lot … More ‘The Works of the Motion Picture Cameraman’
Setting the Scene 