Cinematography
Topic Introduction
Cinematography is defined as "the art of technique of motion picture" from Dictionary.com. It is the art and science of recording light electronically on an image sensor or chemically on physical film. Cinematography is the creation of the images you would see on a screen. It also composes each shot, where everything that's in frame draws attention. Elements of cinematography are lighting, shot size, camera focus, shot composition, camera placement, and camera movement.
Background Research
"A cinematographer or director of photography (shortened to DP or DoP) is the crew chief that presides over the camera and light crews on a film or video production." studiobinder.com states. Camera placement has a great effect on how the audience would react to the shot and the rest of the scene. The position can have a significance on emotional impact or even convey character behavior. Camera moment can enhance the emotion and/or suspense in a scene. It's better to move the camera with the characters to gain perspective. Shot composition means the way that elements of a scene are organized in a camera's frame. It also refers to the set up's visual elements to display an intended message. Shot size is how much of a scene we can actually see. Focus is the product of what the cinematographer plays with to focus an emphasis on different aspects of the story.
Content Application
For an assignment using cinematography, we were asked to find 
any subject (focus of the shot) you choose, record and/or capture as appropriate, each of the different shot types and angles on the attached and paste in the .jpg or .mp4 file. Me and my friends went into the hallways and started posing and angling out phones to match up with the type of shot we were getting ready to take. After taking the shots, we went back into class and started to upload the pictures we took and placed them in the document. We were also asked to google pictures with the shot types from the assignment and add them into the file.
Reflection
In this lesson, I learned some of the components for cinematography and their purpose. I then got to do a hands on project, experimenting with the different shot types there is and how to execute them.
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