100 Tuesday Tips
Drawing with Pen
Drawing with pen helps to convey your ideas quickly and, with practice, more confidently.
Types of Shots
Straight-on (Flat):
- Focuses on the performance.
- Passive or neutral.
Extreme Wide-shot:
- Establishes shot.
- Can convey a stronger emotion.
Close-up:
- Shows something/someone in detail.
- Used as story set up (objects and/or people)
Dutch Angle (Tilted):
- Dynamic.
- Used for action, mystery, or danger, etc...
Upshot:
- On character: gives sense of importance, power, or dominance.
- On background: dramatic
Downshot:
- Characters feel smaller, defenseless, and acted upon.
Group Shot:
- Establishes leader and/or outcast.
- Fresh view of setting, feelings, and/or plot.
Over-the-Shoulder:
- Dialogue or point of view shot.
Back to the Camera:
- Audience projects meaning on characters journey.
- Characters point of view.
Looking Back Over Shoulder:
- Intimacy
- Revealing shot
Cutting on Action:
- Can be used instead of an "establishing shot".
- Cuts straight to action.
Silhouettes in Storytelling
What can they be used to do?
- Create contrast/drama.
- Create contrast/drama.
- Introduce a mysterious character, object, etc.
- Emphasize what a character is looking at.
- Symbolize intimacy.
- Focus on importance of character or group.
- Sense of threat.
- Show less but feel more.
Color and Light - Chapter 3
Light and Form
The Form Principle
- Light striking a geometric solid creates an orderly and predictable series of tones.- Simplifying planes and texture creates a more visually appealing image.
- Always try to state the form in terms of the simplest truth: light and shadow.
Separation of Light and Shadow
- Light and shadow will sometimes look different and sometimes look the same to our minds as we look at an object or objects.- Be careful not to play up secondary sources too much.
Cast Shadows
- Cast shadows reflect the color and temperature of surrounding objects.- Shadow edges are closely related to the nature of the light source. Soft light will cast a shadow with a soft edge. Hard light will cast a shadow with a sharp edge. The edge will fade with more distance between the light source and the shadow.
- Can be used to show depth.
Half Shadow
- Creates drama to light the top half of a subject and leave the rest in shadow.- Same principles of cast shadows apply when leaving the bottom half in shadow.
Occlusion Shadows
- Occlusion shadows occur at any place two forms meet or an object touches the floor.- Help in grounding objects.
Three-Quarter Lighting
- Light reaches most of the visible form - leaving only a small part in shadow.- Can be drawn or painted from either side of the object. Different perspectives give different views.
Frontal Lighting
- Very little shadow is shown.- Good lighting if you want to show the local color of the object or form.
Edge Lighting
- Comes from behind and touches only the sides of the form. It usually requires a strong source of light to clearly define the edge.Contre Jour
- When an object blocks out the light source.- The object blocking out the source of light becomes prominently a silhouette.
Light from Below
- Dramatic, sinister, or magical feelings associated with light from below.- Can be very effective in night scenes.
Reflected Light
- Think of how the moon reflects the light of the sun in our night sky. The moon has become a secondary source of light depending upon the primary source.1. Upfacing planes are cool and downfacing planes are warm in shadows.
2. Reflected light falls off quickly further away from the source.
3. The effect is clearest when removing other sources of reflected and fill light.
4. The color of the shadow is the sum of all the sources of reflected illumination.
5. Vertical surfaces usually receive two sources of illumination: warm ground light and blue sky light.
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