cinema and ratios ppt

CINEMA AND RATIOSThe Golden Ratio in Cinema

• Also called Golden Mean, Phi or Divine Proportion.•Discovered by Fibonacci.•Appears in nature.•Design universally efficient, pleasent to human eye.•Previously, Fibonacci´s squence:

The Golden Ratio

Traslating this ratio to a rectangle whose sides are two consecutive numbers of the Fibonacci´s sequence:

Dividing the rectangle using the sequence

If we join all the squares:

•Cinema and Photography are closely related with proportionality.•The dimensión of the screens in a TV or the a cinema room are not randomly chosen.

Cinema and Proportions

Negative 3:2 or 24:36

This ratio can produce aesthetically pleasing compositions that can be magnets for the human sub-conscious

How to use “The Golden Ratio” to improve our photos?

We naturally prefer to look at an image that is balanced and harmonized, and the Golden Ratio provides this.

How to use “The Golden Ratio” to improve our photos?

How to use “The Golden Ratio” to improve our photos?

Golden Ratio Rule of thirds

Rule of thirds in European Cinema

https://vimeo.com/161095687

Rule of thirds, MethodologySweet Points: The main points will be close to the thirds and their intersections. So we will put there the principal elements.

Close-ups: Close-up portraits will be more striking (eye-catching) if we make coincide the eyes with the thirds.

Rule of thirds, MethodologyHorizon / Ground: We will try to make coincide the horizon with one of the thirds.

Position: It´s important to decentralize the objects horizontally.

Rule of thirds, MethodologyAnyway…Sometimes to centralize can be a good solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flq0t4jrqJQ

Activity

https://vimeo.com/161281601

Let´s shoot this scene using what we have just learnt.

ActivityRoles: Salvatore, Elena and one extra. The rest of the team will be the director and their assistants.

Don´t worry about the script, we will give you. Anyway you can improvise.

Use your mobile to record it, and send us to cinemaths@gmail.com

Do you want to watch the scene again?Any question?

3, 2, 1… ACTION!