Reinventing Identity of a Cinematographer


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Creator/Artist: Mrinal Biswas

Category: Communication Design

Document: Special Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sudesh Balan


Detailed Description

In the history of any art form, cinema made the biggest impact, covering the most widespread audiences with the least amount of time. In 1896, the dawn of filmmaking, Georges Méliès invented the “cut”, and the magic began! Instead of just some moving images, cinema got its own language. And now, after 100 years, when we have 360-degree filmmaking techniques, we are still not clear what to do with it. The basics of filmmaking technique are again now on challenge. Right now we have to rewrite the whole language, from the point of light to composition, editing and even storytelling. So-called specific rules are not usable right now. Possibilities are infinite; only we have to find out the most efficient way. In merely a hundred years it has changed so drastically that to make a comment on any form and substance of film is exceedingly difficult. Though the change is substantial, as Soren Kierkegaard said, we can only understand something by looking backward, though we lived forwards. So if we want to understand the future, we have to look back and try to find out the pattern of the whole process.