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LENS PERSPECTIVE

Lens Perspective

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  • LENSPERSPECTIVE
  • Lens perspective refers to the way lensesrepresent space. Different kinds of lenseshave different effects on the way weperceive depth and dimensionality within animage. . . . Lenses are usually chosen forhow they represent space. - Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image (2008)
  • WIDE - ANGLELENS
  • The wide-angle lens elongates spaceand exaggerates distance. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
  • The wide-angle lens can make peopleseem dwarfed by their environment. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
  • The wide-angle lens stretchesperspective. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
  • The wide-angle lens can maintaindeep focus. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  • The wide-angle lens can create afeeling of vast space. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
  • The wide-angle lens at a low anglecreates a sense of cavernous space. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  • The wide-angle lens distorts facesclose to the camera. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
  • TELEPHOTOLENS
  • The telephoto lens squashes spaceand compresses distance. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
  • The telephoto lens brings people closerto the camera. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
  • The telephoto lens can create a shallowdepth of field. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
  • The telephoto lens distorts movementtoward the camera. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
  • NORMALLENS
  • A normal lens represents space anddistance as they normally appear. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
  • . . . Changing lenses for the amount ofinformation the lens gathers (its field) is only apartial use of a lens. Lenses have differentfeelings about them. Different lenses will tell astory differently. -Sidney Lumet, Making Movies (1996)