Finding the Frame: writing on cinematography — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Finding the Frame: writing on cinematography
Specialist writing on film
What you need to know
Gustavo Mercado's idea that everything in a frame is there for a purpose, and that composition (distance, angle, what is included and left out, and what dominates) creates meaning.
His example of a shot from The Godfather, and the questions it teaches us to ask of any shot.
Applying the ideas to shots from each of the five independent films.
Strengths and limits of the ideas, ready for the specialist writing question.
This is Option A: if your school chose it, name it at the start of your answer and use its ideas, not another writer's.
