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Abdul Rahman Jamous

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  1. My question is math. If I know the dimensions of my squeezed image and the aspect ratio of my de-squeezed image, how I may know the dimensions of my de-squeezed image. guess what... more illustrations! This question has been in my mind for a over a year and finally I'm confident enough to ask it. What I'm looking for are values, numbers. So please please I beg you don't mention cropping for me because this is not my question?.
  2. Let's say that I'm the DP of a project and I would like to use anamorphic lenses. Are there any form of calculations that I have to do before shooting in order to make sure that my anamorphic image wouldn't be scaled down in post?? or do I have to test things out. This is the EXACT reason why I created the topic: How to figure out the aspect ratio of a squeezed anamorphic lens?
  3. noooo ? The aspect ratio of my de-squeezed image is absolutely not my concern here. Hopefully the illustrations below would help me to make my question more clear.
  4. Okay... let's say that hypothetically I still want to shoot in open gate format. according to the charts you gave to me. If I'm using an anamorphic lens that has the squeeze factor of 2x, then the dimensions of the squeezed image would be 21.71 x 18.17 mm (please tell me that I got this thing right LOL) so what if I used an anamorphic lens that has a different squeeze factor (1.3x or 1.5x) How I can figure out the dimensions of the squeezed image?
  5. If I saw someone shooting film, I would literally beg that person to attend the rest of the project so I may learn form him/her and get a new experience. And of course people are interested to see film's shootings. I'm not questioning the prestige of film. but its superiority!
  6. This debate keeps going on because some directors keep bragging about the fact that they shoot by using film. When it comes to film making you shouldn't brag, because bragging doesn't produce a healthy working environment for the artists. Well yes they don't care, but they absolutely can feel the difference. When people know that I'm a camera assistant they usually tend to discuss movies with me. So I intentionally ask them what do they like more, the image of "Gravity" or "Interstellar"? Most often they say "Interstellar" has a nicer image because it looks more natural. In this day and age, technology has allowed the filmmakers of "Gemini Man" to reincarnate young Will Smith. So we shouldn't be surprised when technology succeeds to imitate a (look). Thinking about film as a sacred religious matter is something that actually might harm you as an artist. As a filmmaker you should always have the option to shoot on film, and WE SHOULD KEEP FIGHTING for the sake of keeping this option available for us. But believing that shooting on film is always the default right choice might be an arrogant mindset. (sorry) For example let's say that you have the opportunity to shoot the biography of Charlie Chaplin. Most likely shooting it on film would be the right choice for you. And actually shooting it digitally is a sin. But I feel that a film like "Scott Pilgrim vs the world" should have been shot digitally because the whole style of the movie was inspired by video games. (The movie was released in 2010 and may be they shot it on film because back then digital cameras couldn't shoot in a very high frame rate, I don't know. But I hope that you got what I mean LOL) Unfortunately in the industry those who shoot film degrade those who shoot digital. Those who shoot Raw degrade those who shoot Log. And those who have their movies screened in cinema degrade those who stream their films in Netflix. And everyone want his/her motion picture to have the aspect ratio of 2.39 because otherwise their picture wouldn't be cinematic.
  7. Thank you very much for patiently answering my questions. Obviously I need to improve my technical knowledge.
  8. Or in another words. A crop lens wouldn't fill a full frame sensor, so how I may know if the anamorphic lens that I'm using would fill a full frame sensor or not. Is this information would be given to me by the lens provider? in that case why does an Orion anamorphic lens has two different sensor coverage, one for ALEXA and one for RED?
  9. Let's say that I'm shooting by using Alexa mini and Orion 40mm anamorphic prime lens. How to know the dimensions of the squeezed image that occupies the sensor, knowing that my recording format is open gate 3.4K?
  10. It seems to me that I have to devote a whole day just to get a deep understanding of what has been said. Thank you very much, all of you!
  11. Thank you very much, things started to make sense now
  12. The whole thing is so confusing, right now I'm literally puling my hair. I was reading about anamorphic lenses so naturally I tackled the topic of sensors' sizes. But the thing is that when it comes to sensors' sizes, the internet is full of scattered information and honestly I don't trust them. So I opened the Arri website and found out that Alexa mini has a super 35mm sensor, but according to the manual of the camera the sensor size is 35mm! Are super 35mm and 35mm sensors basically the same? or did Arri contradict itself?
  13. Recently when I feel sleepy while being on set, instead of drinking coffee I drink a very spicy juice. It keeps me alarmed and it doesn't prevent me from sleeping once I come home.
  14. Hi! As I was watching "Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn" I noticed that some shots do not have flares (or the flares are extremely subtle). so I was wondering how such a thing can be achieved? The movie was photographed by Matthew Libatque and was shot by Cooke Anamorphic/i SF Lenses
  15. one thing I found very interesting about the website is the aspect ratio filter category.
  16. Thank you for your effort of sharing this website. and please allow me to say that getting inspiration from a mere single frame might be an unhealthy habit. Yes, in a lot of times directors give references to cinematographers, but they usually refer to a whole movie, a style of cinematography or they might refer to a whole era. But depending on a single frame is not a good way to get inspiration because a single frame will not make you understand the whole visual concept of the movie that the frame was taken from. Also I fear that this website encourages copy and pasting. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying copying and pasting is wrong. what I'm saying is that depending on this website would make film makers do copy and pasting in the wrong way. please forgive me if you find my words harsh. but unfortunately you asked for it lol.
  17. Well, let's say that a viewer has zero knowledge about color design or color theory, that viewer will still be affected by those color choices. my point is that cinematography is so powerful because it will hit the viewer, even if he/she is not aware of it.
  18. Actually a lot of people hear music, Youtube is filled with sound tracks of movies, and some of them are very popular, For example the theme of (Joker) 2019 is very popular nowadays and it has a lot of covers. and of course the theme of "star wars" is played by orchestras all around the world. so yeah, people listen to the backgrounds music of movies. And when it comes to editing, a lot of times when a movie is being reviewed, the reviewer might talk about the editing. also there are a lot of YouTube essays about how editing can ruin action scenes, and there are a lot of videos that discuss the editing style of Edgar Wright. and also there are a lot of videos that talk trash about the editing of Michael Bay. But when was the last time you saw a reviewer talk about the lighting choices of a movie, or how many videos out there talk about Color Palette. let's take (Joker) for example, its cinematographer Lawrence Sher has chosen the contrast of blue and orange as one of the essential visual characteristic of the film's (look). but has the average audience actually expressed whether he/she liked or disliked this color combination? movie viewers have discussed the performance of Joaquin Phoenix, they have discussed whether the story has a good moral value or not. but did they talk about this choice of lighting?
  19. Great! do the audience notice the mood that was created for the actors? or is it that their mind is already occupied by the actors and the story?? The average audience might critics the performance of the actor, he /she might say his opinion about the story, he/she might likes or dislikes the soundtrack of the film. But the average audience never question the mood of the movie. because the mood of a movie is not something that can be noticed, but it directly hits the feelings.
  20. To appreciate something you have to notice it. Mass audience don't notice the lighting of a set, they don't notice the angle of the shot, they don't notice what set of lens (for example whether it is spherical or anamorphic) or filters was used for the shooting, but each one of those choices absolutely affects their feelings and emotions. And that's raise the question, Is the job of a DP is to directly target the subconscious mind of the viewers?
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