Thursday, March 27, 2014

DP of Dark Night Rises

The Director of Photography for the Dark Knight Rises he goes by the name of Wally Pfister. Movies that he directed, you may recognize are Dark Knight Rises, Moneyball, Inception, the list goes on and on.





Talking about the concepts of design from a directors stand point; lets start at:
0:01-0:04 The actors start to look one way and the camera starts to follow.
  • The camera following the direction of where the actors are looking; makes you feel is if you are there, in that scene or that specific situation.
0:05-0:11
  • The camera following right behind the Joker. This scenario puts you in a perspective that you are with the joker on his side and his prospective.
0:23-0:30
  • They used a great figure ground example with the pencil. They are really tight on the pen allowing the viewer to really hone in on the magic trick. Even better the they didn't even have to use special effects on this scene. The motion of camera goes up and the pencil goes out of the scene. As the camera goes back down motion blur occurs and the viewer can't see that there is a pencil there. But your mind tells you that its still there.
Push in effect and close ups

  • The push in effect the camera is slowing moving forward, making it reel as if the person is talking to you.
  • Close ups, make you feel as if you are there in that situation talking to that individual.




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