Lights, camera, action Photography and cinematography activity pack A book of activities for your mind, body and soul. Photography
Since the early 19th century, photography has become an ever-increasing medium of personal expression and appreciation for countless people around the world.
A photograph has the ability to capture a place; an experience; an idea; a moment in time. For this reason, it's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Photographs can convey a feeling faster than, and sometimes even more effectively than words can. A photograph can make the viewer see the world the way the photographer sees it.
Photographs even transcend the passing of time - a photo from a hundred years ago can still be as appreciated now, as it was then. A photo taken tomorrow, can still be just as appreciated by others in a hundred years' time. Photo Analysis
Study the photographs. Photo Analysis
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Step 1: Observation
Choose a photograph on the previous page and study it for two minutes. Form an impression, and then examine individual items in the photo. Next, study a different area of the photo – for example, the top left quarter – and see what new details become visible to you. List the people, animals, objects and activities you see in the photo. People / Animals Objects Activities
Step 2: Inference
Based on what you have observed, list three things you might assume or infer from this photo.
Step 3: Questions
What questions does this photo raise in your mind? Camera Colouring Did you know?
The first ever image captured on camera was taken by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827, and captures the view outside his window in Burgundy.
The image below, taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838, features the first human beings ever captured on camera. Due to the ten-minute exposure time nobody walking along the Boulevard du Temple in Paris could be captured, apart from two men in the bottom left corner. It is believed one is shining the shoes of the other – with both of them seemingly unaware they were becoming part of history. . Did you know?
In 1839, American photographer Robert Cornelius took the first ever portrait photograph of a person. He removed the lens cap, ran into the frame and stood still for ten minutes, before returning the cap to its position. While he simply wanted to capture the image of a human, Cornelius couldn’t have been aware that he was pioneering a technique that would be perfected by millennials 170 years later – the selfie.
This image is the most expensive photo ever sold. Want to take a guess as to how much it went for? Well, Rhein II by German visual artist Andreas Gursky was sold at auction in 2011 for $4.3million, which equates to £2.7million.
Photo credit: Andrea Gursky Camera Maze
Find your way through the maze from the camera to the landscape you want to photograph! Camera wordsearch
Tripod Reflection Lense Shooting Focus Delete Digital Mirror Shadows Zoom Grid Mode ISO Contrast Exposure HDR Menu Camera Lighting Shutter The First Motion Pictures
The Horse In Motion (1878)
This ground-breaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a single motion picture. It’s something that you could do today, using a few cameras that are set to go off at an exact moment.
The movie was made to scientifically answer a popular debated question during this era… Are all four of a horse’s hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? The video proved that they indeed were and, more importantly, motion photography was born. The First Motion Pictures
Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
The world’s earliest surviving motion- picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It’s a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it’s just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest surviving film in existence. The First Motion Pictures
Arrival of a Train (1895)
This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into a train station of the French coastal town of La Ciotat. It’s a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life, and the film consists of one continuous real-time shot. There’s also an urban legend associated with this movie that says when the film was first shown, the audience was so scared by the image of a life-sized train barrelling toward them that people screamed and ran to the back of the room. Movie Mix Up Here are the titles of some popular movies from the 1930s to the 1960’s. How many can you unscramble and spell? Use the year and the number of words in the film title as clues.
Example: HIT ED WHEN TOWING (1939) would be GONE WITH THE WIND
1. A HOT FIZZED ROW (Judy Garland, 1939)
2. VALUABLE TOE (Anne Baxter, 1950)
3. FAMILY YARD (Audrey Hepburn, 1964)
4. ALAS CAN CAB (Humphrey Bogart, 1942)
5. HER BUN (Charlton Heston, 1959)
6. KEEN ZITI CAN (Joseph Cotton, 1941)
7. NAN IS INHERITING (Gene Kelly, 1952)
8. THE SKELETON DEW (Ray Milland, 1945)
9. HEN CAN QUIET FEAR (Katharine Hepburn, 1951)
10. HO HOG INN (Gary Cooper, 1952)
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6. Citizen Kane 7. Singin in the rain 8. The Lost Weekend 9.The African African 9.The Weekend Lost The 8. rain the in Singin 7. Kane Citizen 6. Hur
1.The Wizard of Oz 2. All About Eve 3. My Fair Lady 4. Casablanca 5. Ben Ben 5. Casablanca 4. Lady Fair My 3. Eve About All 2. Oz of Wizard 1.The Answers Thomas Edison’s Patent (1897) They made movies possible…
In 1877, inventor Edward Unlike these earlier cameras, Muybridge developed a primitive Edison’s Kinetoscope and form of motion pictures when Kinetograph used celluloid film, Leland Stanford, governor invented by George Eastman in of California, invited him to develop 1889. In February 1893, Edison photo studies of animals in motion. built a small movie studio that could be rotated to capture the Muybridge developed an ingenious best available sunlight. He showed system for photographing the first demonstration of his sequential motion, setting up 24 films—featuring three of his cameras attached to trip wires workers pretending to be stretched across a racetrack. As blacksmiths—in May 1893. the horse tripped each wire, the shutters snapped. The resulting The invention inspired French series of photos could be projected inventors Louis and August Lumiere as something resembling a motion to develop a movie camera and picture. This breakthrough in the projector, the Cinematography, that early 1870s inspired another allowed a large audience to view a student of animal motion, Etienne film. Several other cameras and Jules Marey of France, to develop projectors were also developed in in 1882 a rotating camera rather the late 1800s. like a rifle, where different pictures were taken in a rapid sequence by a rotating cartridge.
George Eastman, the father of Kodak and inventor/entrepreneur Thomas Edison
Photo credit: Library of Congress Inside a Motion Picture Camera
Diagram from Smithsonian Science Education Center Movie Maker Wordsearch
Preview Transition Save Trim Clip Narration Slowmotion Thumbnail Effect Import Project Timeline Animation Frame WMV Audio Credit Split Movie Camera Colouring Fascinating Film Facts
1. When was film invented? The 1890s Motion pictures date all the way back to the 1890s when the first 4. Early cameras filmed at moving picture cameras were 16 frames per second (fps) invented. Before the By today’s standards, a 16 advancement of the hollywood frames per second speed is scene, movies were somewhat pretty slow. For perspective, boring. They started out short modern 35mm cameras film at and only included a single scene 25 FPS. If you want your mind that was about a minute long. blown, some modern video games are played at 250 FPS.
2. The earliest short films were sometimes 5. 13 frames per second is accompanied by bands the slowest speed the What fun would it be sitting in a human brain will process theatre while random, everyday images consecutively scenes scrolled by silently on a 13 FPS is the minimum speed screen. To make up for the lack that the human brain needs in of sound in a film, sometimes a order to process consecutive band would play live music while images as movement. Anything the movie was playing. less than that and the human brain will process each frame as a separate picture. 16 FPS is 3. The panorama shot was pretty close to 13, which is why developed in 1987 old movies look so choppy and 1987 is the year panning unnatural. cameras were first used in film production, meaning the pan shot, also known as the panorama shot, was invented then. Before, cameras were stationary, so you had to move the entire camera and tripod to get any kind of movement. This was a huge advancement in film making. Fascinating Film Facts
6. The first feature-length 9. The titanic movie was film was produced in 1906 17.7 reels long when The Australian film, The Story released of the Kelly Gang, was the first Titanic came out in 1997 when feature length film in history. film reels were still the only You can see the cast, box way to project a movie. With a office, and budget details on run time of 3 hours and 15 IMDB. It was over an hour long, minutes, each copy of Titanic and the reel length was about was 17.7 reels long. That 4,000 feet. It was almost lost means, at 25 FPS, it consisted forever, but a few pieces of the of over 17,700 feet of film. film surfaced in 1975, which That’s over 3 miles for a single helped preserve some of the movie. history-making movie. 10. Movie theatres now use 7. The first movie theatres digital light processing opened in 1907 (DLP) Before 1907, most movies were Most movie theatres these days shown in traditional theatres or use digital video projectors. The at carnivals. With the advent of technology is called DLP which movie theatres, the films stands for Digital Light became the main attraction Processing. Since modern films themselves. are projected digitally, movie studios don’t ship huge reels of 8. A 1,000 foot long film will film to the theatres anymore. produce 11 minutes of Now, they just send the videos footage at 25 fps via the internet, satellite, or A standard reel of film that runs hard drive. Another huge at 25 FPS is 1,000 feet long. advancement in the film This 1,000 feet of film will industry! produce about 11 minutes of footage. That means that The improvements in film have projectionists at movie theatres brought many different ways had to change reels many times for individuals to capture and during a single motion picture create their own movies and to keep it going uninterrupted. memories over the years. My Film Review
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