Sunday, 2 November 2014

viewing: balance

In this project we are learning about balance in the image, the Golden Section and the Rule of Thirds. Looking at the projects I have already done, you can see that I do use regularly the Rule of Thirds when framing, as I have studied some photography and tend to do this quite naturally now.
In the drunk subjective point of view, for example, when the drunk looks at the shelf and notices the bottle, this is located in the upper left corner of the thirds grid, to try to catch the eye of the viewer even when there are more objects in the frame.
The same happens in assignment 1; when the woman applying the lipstick, the reflection in the small mirror is also in the upper right corner of the grid; or the horizon in the last scene is also in the lower thirds line.
What I haven't done so far is breaking those rules to create tension or communicate something, as I haven't thought of the dynamic use of these compositions.

Viewing Detectorist, I found many examples of the use of the thirds to locate the protagonists, but none of the opposite use (breaking the rule examples):



As I've done in other times (here, or here) I have tried to find the specific scenes in thriller movies. Then, I've been viewing Tesis, the first movie of Fernando Amenabar. Here the director uses the change in the frame, breaking the rule of thumbs, several times (case in point below) to create restlessness.







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