Publication: Visual Effects Cinematography The Cinematographer’s Filmic Techique From Traditional To Digital Era
Date
2012-04
Authors
Eldin, Nawal Mohamed Salah
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The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication
Abstract
Special effects cinematography is as old as cinema itself. The cinematographer had a major
role in making the special effects scene either by making the whole effect in camera or
combined with the optical effects in laboratory after shooting. A question pops up after the
digital revolution: Does the cinematographer have the same role as before? Is there a need to
adopt new techniques to master the cinematographer work in the digital era? This paper
attempts to explore the differences between the conventional and the digital visual effects
from the cinematographer’s technical point of view, based on a comparative study. Before the
digital era most of the effects were done by the camera or in the laboratory. Nowadays,
however, there are new tools and techniques such as digital visual effects that overruled the
cinema industry, sometimes the only live-action elements are the actors. The term CGI
(Computer Generated Images) is currently well known to many people and filming is only the
first step to be followed by many other procedures. The mentioned procedures are called post
production, which is the region where most of the visual effects creation takes place.
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Cinematography, Digitalization, Visual Effects, Sinematografi, Dijitalleşme, Görsel Efekt