Philippa Muller

*Phillip Mosness Thank you for this thorough response. I am busy prepping for a pixelation which we'll be turning into a stop-motion animation with scale sized characters. I'll keep your notes in mind. The books look like a great source to look into. Thanks for the time. *James Steven Beverly I'll have a look at the documentaries you suggested. Thank you for giving me such a big list. *George Ebersole I see what you're saying. It seems to be a very natural and obvious thing (to read composition) even for audiences 'non-filmmakers'. It'll be quite a challenge to narrow this down tightly and find something eye opening. Thank you for the insight. Kind regards!

Hello, I'm a Cinematography student, busy starting a Thesis about Composition and I'm struggling to find a niche in this subject. Therefore I'd like to find out what questions/challenges arise most commonly about composition in a production? Reading material I've looked at briefly: Picture Composition for film and television - Peter Ward Mastering Composition - Ian Roberts The Somnambulist: Photographs - Ralph Gibson It would be great to hear some of your thoughts as working professionals in the industry. What challenges do you commonly find in composing a moving image? "Everybody immediately responds to subject matter in art. A picture of a butterfly and a picture of a snake do not get the same response. In addition to subject matter*, the formal aspects of visual composition are like the grammar of a language... When children learn art, it is like learning to read and write the language of vision. When they develop a style of expressing visual ideas, it helps them become visual poets. " Marvin Bartel: Drawing to learn drawing: 2010