Friday, September 21, 2012

iRobot - Cinematography

Cinematography

The main topic I want to cover in this movie is the cinematography. To me the cinematography was pretty good. Most of this movie was shot in front of a green screen. This made it very easy to do some of the special effects. They did do some of the shooting in Chicago though. They could get some of the shots of the buildings and then add to them with the green screen. The angles for this movie were pretty good to me. I thought they used some pretty good shots. However, I felt they could have used a bit more unique angles. It felt at times they just used some of the same angles over and over again.
Some of the web searches that I looked up on this cinematography, did not talk too much about it. It seemed that most people were more concerned on the plot. I think however that camera work is very important. Without good camera work the film can become very boring! They did talk however about some of the close ups they used with the camera. They used ECU (extreme close up) to get a lot of the facial expressions.  A great example of this is when they zoom in on Sonny’s face. They show him winking like Will Smith did one time. This shows that robots try to be like humans. However, Sonny is the only robot that can show emotions. They also used LS (Long Shot) to capture large groups. In one of the fight scenes with humans and robots this would be used. You can see everyone fighting and created a good shot.


Nathan Bond

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