Screen Craft
When the Camera Learned to Move: The Early Language of the Tracking Shot
The early tracking shot turns camera movement into story: learn to distinguish a moving viewpoint from action inside…
subjects
Screen Craft
The visual and audible choices that give films their character.
Screen Craft
A Close Look at Opening Credits on a Rainy Afternoon
Use a rainy afternoon to read opening credits closely and notice how names, type, and images quietly prepare you for…
Our point of view
A film has more than one life
Cinema belongs to its stories, but also to its makers, viewers and moment in time. Looking closely can reveal how those lives meet.