Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers / Edition 1

by Vincent LoBrutto

Overview

By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents in-depth interviews with 13 prominent cinematographers, who discuss their careers and the art and craft of feature film cinematography. The interviewees—who represent the spectrum of big-budget Hollywood and low-budget independent filmmaking from the sixties through the nineties—talk about their responsibilities, including lighting, camera movement, equipment, cinematic grammar, lenses, film stocks, interpreting the script, the budget and schedule, and the psychological effect of images. Each interview is preceded by a short biography and a selected filmography, which provide the background for a detailed analysis of the photographic style and technique of many highly acclaimed and seminal films.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275949556
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)
Lexile:	1020L (what's this?)

About the Author

VINCENT LoBRUTTO is an Editing and Production Design Instructor in the Department of Film, Video and Animation of the School of Visual Arts, in New York City. He has worked as a postproduction coordinator for the ABC television network and as a film editor for the Fox and HBO networks. He is a contributing writer for American Cinematographer and Films in Review and the author of several books, including Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Praeger, 1991), By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers (Praeger, 1992), and Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound (Praeger, 1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Conrad Hall
Gordon Willis
Miroslav Ondrícek
Adam Holender
Don McAlpine
John Bailey
Dean Cundey
Edward Lachman
Garrett Brown
Fred Elmes
Sandi Sissel
Allen Daviau
Lisa Rinzler
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Interviews with 13 cinematographers allow them to speak in their own words about the art and craft of cinematography. Interviews were conducted over a five-year period, and represent a wide spectrum of artistic and technical accomplishments which embody cinematography in commercial and independent filmmaking. The order in which interviews are presented gives a historical, developmental perspective of the field. Individual selected filmographies contain the majority of the subjects' feature film credits. Includes a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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