The Art Of Framing And Focus

Framing and Focus Framing a scene is essential in cinematography. Prunes (2018) suggests, in one sense, cinema is an art of selection. The edges of the image create a “frame” that includes or excludes aspects of what occurs in front of the camera — the “pro-filmic event”. Within the frame of each scene is the composition, the composition as Hall (2015, pg.68) states
“ is the way we arrange the pictorial elements in the picture to provide a harmonious complete image that concentrates the viewer’s attention on the part of the frame that is most significant to the story being told at that particular time”.
It is important in each frame, composition and Mise-en-scène to be part of the overall visual storytelling. It is significant in the following experiment that each frame, composition and Mise-en-scène highlight the story visually showing fear, voyeurism, panic and feelings of freedom/escape without the need for prolonged dialogue or dramatic music ques.
Prunes (2018) also reports that ‘The expressive qualities of framing include the angle of the camera to the object, the aspect ratio of the projected image, the relationship between camera and object, and the …show more content…
Le Blanc and Odell (2001, pg.8, 10) states at the core of horror lies the monster the perpetrator of the dread and fear that elicits an emotional response to the film. Le Blanc and Odell (2001, pg.9) also report that the monster falls within certain categories or more than one category of monster such as Natural horror, an example of this is the film fog, mist, swarm or the birds or the Supernatural such as Monsters, vampires, ghosts, zombies and films such as the Exorcist, Night of the living Dead, Poltergeist and the Black lagoon represent the supernatural. The other two categories are psychological horror such as Psycho, SAW, Cube and scientific horror such Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr