Ion Buga

I liked the trailer. And i think the theme is a good one, need to watch it. I am very interested in the way you show how people can be the same and in the same time belong to different culture's. Why "The Glass Box"? How can i watch it?

I just have situations when someone that knew a little about a subject trying to explain me what is right and what is wrong to me when i knew a little more. And i don't want to be the same guy in other discussions where i don't know a thing. Yea, i think that is very hard objective to critic a piece. Anyhow, we can tell when a scene transmit it ideea and when not, we can tell that a movie made to make money without big work into it is not a good one. We get into hard topic. I am starting to lose my ideea due to confusement's :).

Hard to answer. I would try to explain what i mean. Our objective: shot a short scene where a boy tell his mother that he love her. We can shot 100 different scene's, all different but trying to accomplish the same objective. But some of them can make a big impress on viewer and some not. The one's that make big impression, done the objective and other's not. Because of some criteria, hard to tell them ad-hoc (light, angle of camera, colours, the facial expression of boy, the intonation, the reaction of mom & so on.).

Just to make clear: I admit that your are a lot more experienced in cinematography and i just trying to put my thought's on debate and, maybe, change them if i find i am wrong. A critic that can't appreciate right a piece (a movies, a novel, a song, etc.) is bad critic and his opinion may not be accepted by us. But when a critic give argument's and we just can't fight them we must admit his opinion supremacy. For example, i like Shilov (http://shilov.su/gal.html - his masterpiece's must be watched in real) because of detalization of portrait's. It's a hard work to make every bit to look perfect, as real. This is an argument, his pieces are great because of his work on details. It's objective.

I respect your point of view, and agree that the same movie can be interpreted different (because of some criteria: the level of interes of the film theme, etc). But the quality can be objective. What you think of this statement?

I understand your point of view, but IMO art is objective and our opinion about it depends of our interpretation (here i agree with you). Anyhow, it can be interpreted right or wrong (like literature criticism). For example: you read a book and you like it, but a critics (that's learn's how to appreciate) tell that the book is no good. The same thing is in all branches of art (just my opinion). We can make a perfect scene to express what we wanted in a movie, or make a not so good one. It's a question of experience and work.

Well, while i learn a piece at guitar (by sheet of course) i am also bored a little but after i learned, practice and make it to sound brilliant i enjoy it after some time. I start to get it, movie is a combination of scene's? and the ideea is to make every scene transmit your ideea and make them all look great together? How you can tell when a movies is good, and when is bad?

I am thankful for your post, and it give me a hope that cinematography is not a shadow of theatre. I guess i just need to watch the right works. I enjoyed to watch movies like 'Il bisbetico domato' with Adriano Celentano, The Godfather Triology and Schindler's List. Anyway, the 99% of today hollywood works just kills me.

Thank you for your answer, your last words about reproduction of reality are piece that fits in my puzzle. Can you give me example(s) of movie(s) or photo's that impress you? And you would like to do something similar, in terms of quality of course, not plagiat.

I am confused and hope you can help me. In my vision: Art is a way to impress feelings. I am a musician, when i am playing a nice piece i go mad about it, it's a great feeling. I also like to read, i like british literature like H. R. Haggard or A. C. Doyle. When i read them i get very excited and almost the same feeling that i get from listening music. I want to understand, can cinematography give me the same feeling of extasy? Maybe i don't watch what is right. Please express your point of views.