Cinematography Master Class- By Janusz Kaminsk (Begins at 5mins)

"Read the script - Digest the Story - Project your ideas through your own experiences".

Shindlers List
He said that it had to be made in black and white because all they knew from that time period came from black and white photography. This shows the research and the deep thought that goes into the cinematography process. because he said " it would be wrong to make it in colour" this just shows the care that he put into his work which i should feature in my own.It also shows how he want the audience to identify with the time period because if all they know from this time period is from black and white photography that will also be the case for his audience , so he is able to take them back in time just by simply using black and white.
now as for me and my film , if i want to make the audience feel a certain way or evoke a certain emotion , what i have do is think deep and do extensive research on how people see the key themes or my narrative now and in the past and play on them which will evoke real emotion from my audience , this can be done through the lighting, camera positions and movements and also the setting.

Saving Private Ryan
"25" minuets depicts the whole D-Day events of the invasion of Normandy in this film.
This just goes to show that time isn't an obstacle I should allow myself to get blocked by.
it also shows me how creative i should be because they connected some ammo to a drill and it turned out to look like a real machine gun from a POV shot ,shows the creativity that an individual has, because not only does it test the ability to create good and unusual ideas but to portray them on make others see what you see and make them feel how you want your audience to feel is the ultimate test of a Good cinematographer.
this video also taught me that cinematography isn't only to do with camera positions/movements, lighting and setting , but you can also slow down the speed of the frames to see how emotions and expressions form on actors faces or to see the process of certain important actions , which ill keep the audience gripped and very interested.

Minority report
in once scene he used his childhood experiences at the puppet shows to portray a scene in a certain way. he created a certain atmosphere with the use of cinematography to make his audience feel the way he wanted to feel.
From all the research i have done one cinematography , apart form the text book stuff, the one thing that has remained constant throughout cinematographers is that its a very personal thing.
one said that if you gave 5 cinematographers the same story , same script and the same actors that each one of them will make it look totally different from each others.
So i learnt from this that i have to add my own personal touch to our cinematography and almost like my signature on my work.


Munich
This film was about men who were involved in certain events getting killed off 1 by 1.
In this film "the camera became the hunter" and Janusk began to try new things like shooting reflections of people , shooting through windows ect.. which he admits was very hard but worth it .
with my cinematography i am going to have to think outside the box am and be a lot more creative with my ideas and think of things that break conventions of typical and basic cinematography.

The Diving Bee and the Butterfly
This film is about a man who has be paralysed all over except from one eye lid.
So Janusz started by covering one eye and seeing what he thought someone in that position would see and feel. now in my film i will have a lot of point of view shots , so i will need to put myself in the position of my character to what they are seeing ,where they will look , how they will feel how they would move , which all creates realism and it will great too.

I have learnt a lot from this video and plan to use a lot of what was said in my work.

Short video of Janusz Kaminsk