Cinematography

Cinematography is the camera positions and light choices made to fit the world of your film. There are many aspects that contribute to the art of cinematography. They are: Film Stock, The Lab, Filters, Lens (Focal Length and Diaphragm Aperture), Depth of field and Focus, Aspect ratio and framing, Lighting, Camera Movement.
A cinematographer is someone that works closely to the director to make sure that the artistic aesthetics is supporting the director’s vision of the story. Cinematographers make very creative and technical decisions from pre production to post production, which affects the overall feel and look of the film. Cinematographers have control over the camera and lighting that are being used. They also control the selection of lens focal lengths, aperture exposure and focus.

After watching Krzysztof Kieslowski analyze scenes from the 'Three Colors' trilogy I saw how difficult it is to express the art of cinema in films. Unlike photographers, they only have still shots to work with; cinematographers work with moving cameras which means to achieve anything have to look at every movement and how the camera captures the movement. Christopher Doyle said cinematographers have to research to be able to achieve anything. Christopher Doyle said that he goes to local places and sees what kind of things and people go on in that place at that time and that how he gets ideas to help him create his film.