1 The Director of Photography – an overview

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Composition and the rule of thirds 163 Figure 18.8 A composition using the upper and lower sixths much as almost anything placed in that area will have an influence on the audience greater than its normal value in a less dramatic composition. In this vacant space even the Red Baron is a powerful force! In Figure 18.8, by flying his aeroplane on the bottom line of the top lefthand sixth box, even in caricature, he is such a powerful compositional force that one’s eye is totally distracted from the lovely skyline that previously dominated the frame. Such is the power of the sixths. Diagonal framing There are other elements within the frame that can have a very strong effect on the audience’s response to the overall picture. Perhaps the next most powerful dynamic force within the frame is the diagonal line – that is, the line flowing directly from one corner of the frame to the diagonally opposite corner. In Figure 18.9 there is a very simple composition of a cat looking at its master working at a painting. Study this composition. What is the cat looking at? There is little doubt, it’s looking at the back of its master’s head. Not at the painting. Not at the brush and not at the palette. But how can we be so certain that that is the cat’s actual point of view? Quite simply, the cat’s eye-sockets are bisected by the bottom right to top left diagonal of the frame, as is the back of the painter’s head. I have deliberately left out the eyes of both the cat and the painter to prove the point. Figure 18.10 is identical to Figure 18.9 but with the diagonal line inserted to show the path of its influence. Complex and combined composition It is also possible to compose individual elements of the overall picture within the separate nine boxes formed by the division of the frame by the lines of the thirds.
164 Practical Cinematography Figure 18.9 A composition using the diagonal Figure 18.10 A composition showing the position of the diagonal Figure 18.11 The effect of a ‘weight’ on a composition
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