ABOUT CINEMATOGRAPHY

Definition Cinematography

Cinematography is the uptake of the English word derived Cinematography Latin from language Kinema 'image'. Cinematography as a field of applied science scientist is discusses techniques capture images and merge together the picture that it becomes a series of images that can convey the idea (to carry the story). Cinematography has the same object with photography that captures the reflection of light on objects. 

Because the same object then equipment similar. The difference, photographic equipment capturing a single image, while the cinematography captures a series of images.Submission of ideas for photography utilizing a single image, while the cinematography utilizing a series of images. So the cinematography is a combination of photographic images or coupling techniques in cinematography is called a montage (montage). Cinematography is very close to films in the sense as well as storage media art genre.Films as storage media is the PIAs (small sheet) selluloid a kind of thin plastic material coated with light-sensitive substances. This object is always used as a storage medium in the early growth of cinematography. Film as a genre of art is the product of cinematography

Genre Film as Art

The term refers to the movie at the beginning of a media type of plastic that is coated with light-sensitive substances. Light-sensitive media is often referred to selluloid. In the field of photography These films became the dominant medium used to store the reflected light caught on the lens. In the next generation of photography shifted to the use of media electronics as a digital image storage. In the field of cinematographic media concerning This store has been progressing rapidly. Successive known media selluloid storage (film), analog tape, and most recently digital media (tapes, discs, chip memory). 

Departing from this sense the film was originally the work of advantage cinematography as his saving selluloid media. In line with the development of storage media in the field of cinematography, then the sense the film has shifted. A feature film can be produced without using selluloid (media film). Even when this is the little film that using the media selluloid at shooting stage. In the post-production phase images that have been edited from both analog and digital media can be stored on the media are flexible. The final results can be stored in a cinematographic work selluloid media, analog and digital. Development of storage technology has changed the understanding of the film of the term refers to a material Yeng Yeng term refers to the art form audio-visual. The short films are now defined as a genre (branch) of art using audio (voice) and visual (picture) as a medium.

Type of Film

Documentary (Documentary Films) The documentary is the name given to the Lumiere brothers first movie masterpiece that tells the story of the journey (travelogues), which was made around 1890's. Thirty-six years later, the word 'documentary' re-used by filmmaker and critic John Grierson British film to film Moana (1926) by Robert Flaherty. Grierson believes the documentary is a creative way to represent reality (Susan Hayward, Key Concept in Cinema Studies, 1996, p 72). Grierson despite opposition from various parties, his opinion remains relevant today. The documentary presents a reality through a variety of ways and are made for various purposes. But it must be admitted, the documentary was never out of the purpose of information dissemination, education, and propaganda for the person or entity. In essence, the documentary remains grounded in the things as real as possible.Over time, there were many streams of documentary films such as dokudrama (docudrama). In dokudrama, the reduction occurred after tujuantujuan aesthetic reality, so that the picture and the story becomes more interesting. Even so, the distance between reality and the results are presented through dokudrama usually not much different. In dokudrama, the reality remains a grip. Now the documentary becomes a distinct trend in world cinema. 

The filmmakers could experiment and learn about many things while engaged in the production of documentary films. Not only that, the documentary can also bring benefits in an amount sufficient to satisfy. This can be seen from the number of documentary films we can see through channels such as television program National Geographic and Animal Planet. Even the Discovery Channel television channel was established menasbih itself as the only television channel broadcast a documentary program about the natural and cultural diversity. In addition to the consumption of television, documentary films are also commonly included in various film festivals at home and abroad. Operate until the end of 1992, the Festival Film Indonesia (FFI) has a category for judging the type of documentary films. In Indonesia, the production of documentary films for television pioneered by our first television station, Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI). Various documentary about the culture, flora and fauna of Indonesia has generated a lot of TVRI. Entering the era of private television in 1990, making documentary films for television is no longer monopolized TVRI. All private television broadcast a documentary program, both its own production or purchase of a home production. One of the documentary style of the little known, either because they aired simultaneously by the five private stations and TVRI is the Son of the Thousand Islands (Miles Productions, 1995). Dokudrama it was liked by many people, so about six years later a similar program with the Children's Library title Nusantara (SET Foundation, 2001) produced for television consumption. Dokudrama also inspired filmmakers in Hollywood. Some well-known films such as JFK took dokudrama style (on the president Kenedy), Malcolm X, and Schindler's List.

Film Short Stories (Short Films)

The duration is usually short feature film in under 60 minutes. In many countries such as Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, and also Indonesia, made a short feature film laboratory experiments and a springboard for a person / group of people to produce films and then a long story. Many types of films produced by students majoring in film or the person / group who liked the movie and wanted to make films with good practice. Nevertheless, there are also those who simply specialize to produce short films, usually the result of this production is supplied to the production houses or television channels.

Film Story Long (Feature-Length Films) Films with a duration of more than 60 minutes usually lasted 90-100 minutes. Films shown in theaters are generally included in this group. Some films, such as Dances With Wolves, even over a duration of 120 minutes. India production of films the average duration of up to 180 minutes.

Company Profile (Corporate Profile) The film was produced for the benefit of certain institutions related to the activities they perform, eg show "Your Business" on SCTV. The film itself serves as a tool for presentation or promotion.

Television advertising (TV Commercial) The film was produced for the dissemination of information, both about the product (product advertising) and public service (public service ads or public service announcement / PSA). Product advertising display products being advertised are usually explicitly, that there is an audio-visual stimulus is clear about the product. While the concern for public service announcements to inform the manufacturer of a product of social phenomena was appointed as the topic of the ad. Thus, the general public service ads featuring product implicitly 

Television programs (TV Programme) The program is produced for the consumption of television viewers. In general, television programs were divided into two types of stories and noncerita. This type of story is divided into two groups: fiction and nonfiction. Groups produce fictional serial films (TV series), television movies / FTV (popular through television channel SCTV) and short films. The group worked on a variety of nonfiction educational programs, documentaries or the character profile of a particular area. While the program itself worked non-story variety show, Marquis TV, talk shows, and news coverage (news).

Video Clips (Music Video) Video clips are a means for music producers to market their products through the medium of television. Was first popularized by the television channel MTV in 1981. In Indonesia, the video clip itself is then developed as a business mengiurkan with the growth of private television. Finally, video clips and stream grow as the industry itself.Some home video production firm chose a business major (core busines) them. In Indonesia no less than 60 video clips are produced each year.