From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals

Focus on narrative filmmaking

From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals

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Focus on narrative filmmaking

- Our main focus throughout this course is narrative filmmaking. You'll need to make choices about such things as lighting, composition, lenses, camera moves, and color, so you can control the story that your images are telling. In a documentary, the world in front of the camera is real. Those are real people and the actual places where they live their lives. These are true events happening in front of your camera. In narrative filmmaking, everything in front of the camera is fake. However, it's a disaster if the audience senses this throughout the movie. To the audience, these actors are characters in your story. The set is the place where your story happens. We have to convince the audience that the lighting falling on your scene is exactly what your story says it is. This requires lots of planning, and the combined work of a group of people who are all telling the same story.

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