Giulio

Hello, do you is there any way to get or map the camera trajectories within a movie sequence? Is there any software to achieve it with? any empiric technique? let me know bye Giulio

well I like self study...but you know not all can be left to find out alone...without any guidance especially if you've paid al lot for the course ;) Mike: yes I know, actually , I am focusing on such aspects of The Matrix , how we understand the space through the camera and characters moves? Have you got any impressions about how the space is conceived in The Matrix according to those elements? I am focusing on one scene, which is the one when Neo and Trinity go to rescue Morpheus and they start fighting in the lobby building. If you give me ur private emails guys I can send what I did so far. the all images are 1 mb. my mail is artitecture@gmail.it

Thanks for your feedback! Well as I told the programme course which I am attending is "Learning from Hollywood" and it aims to find relation in the way cinematography techniques are used to structure a movie. The assigned movie it is The Matrix and through drawings and diagrams we have to find relation btw the specific cinematographic techniques of the Matrix and finally get from these a kind of instrumental tools useful to inform an architectural deisgn process. These kind of tools should let me to make good analysis on the site according to the diagrams/drawings about film and lead me to define the "composition language" of my architectural project. I know, the course aim is quite ambitious, but unfortunately, the tutors are not well known about the topic and it seems just a random choice rather than a true interest in how to investigate these relations. I mean, the topic is quite specific and special and me and most of my classmates haven't any cinematography knowledges, so if also the tutors are not clear what to do with it as they just found funny to do these stuffs (but they are not really experienced about film+arch), then one gets really confused about! However, have you got any ideas if are there any set of "rules" used among the cinematography techniques provinding specific visual-spatial movie composition? Have got some useful links about diagramming graphically a movie? thanks you anyway Giulio ps. if ur interested I can post to ur private email address some works I did so far.. just give me ur email

Hello All, I am an architecture student and as a research im my studio I am investigating how the cinematographic techniques can inform an architectural design process. I am analysing a movie (The Matrix) and making some diagrams which describe how the different technical devices are used to structure the movie and provide meaning of space within it. Do you think there can be any relation between the DOF and the light density of the image on screen (expressed in a stepwedge bar 0% to 100%) ? How can I relate these two elements? Furthermore, is there also any relation btw the slow motion fx , the frame rate used to obtain it, and the "optical design" of the image (I mean again the dof and also the focal lenght used portraying different kind of perspective views). Thank you for your help Giulio ps. here attached some still frame I am using to analyse the light density and which I'd like to relate to the dof and focus plane... 1) B&W Light Density Frame 2) relative colour Still Frame