Composition Occurs in both Space and Time

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I first became aware of composition over time while watching the film The Hit. There’s a scene where two characters have a conversation while leaning against a car. The shot is very low and very wide, and a lighthouse fills the background. On the right side of frame a character talks to another character who […]

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What Wired Didn’t Understand about Depth of Field

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In the Sept. ’08 issue of Wired Magazine, in an article about the RED camera called “A Star is Born,” the author states that the difference in depth of field between film cameras and HD cameras is due to “analog versus digital,” with no other explanation. I’ve written this for him and for anyone who […]

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Wired Magazine Gets the RED Totally Wrong

I’d like to encourage everyone reading this to pick up a copy of this month’s Wired magazine (Sept. 2008, page 128) and read the article. Then I’d like you to write to both Wired magazine’s editorial department ([email protected]) and the article’s author (Michael Behar, whose email address is listed at the end of the article). […]

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