Art of Cinema blog post

Found Memories- 

This is a film I watched earlier in the semester for another class. I enjoyed it because of its’ simple yet elegant cinematography. The way the shots were constructed and organized showed that the Director of Photography took his time to plan out each shot to correlate with the entire film. The majority of the shots through-out the film followed the “theory of thirds”. Were you aline points of interest in your shot along 1/3 proportions which gave the film some beautiful composition. Another aspect of the cinematography was how the shots would tighten and shorten as the film progress. In the beginning of the film the shots were wide-angles with a longer duration that gives the audience a sense of spectatorship. The tighter the angles became, the more a viewer would feel connected with the characters within the village. Just as Rita becomes closer to the village, until in the very end of the film we see nothing but medium shots and close-ups. While this may not seem to be an exciting style of cinematography, it helps deliver the emotions and attitude of the village towards the new comer subliminally.