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The Film Student’s Guide to Visual Storytelling
Blog, ArticlesEvery film is a visual argument. Before a single line of dialogue lands, the audience is already reading the frame - the lighting in a room, where the camera sits, how a character moves through space. Visual storytelling is what turns footage into meaning. It's also the skill set that separates filmmakers who understand the medium from those still pointing a camera at things and hoping. This guide covers the core tools - lighting, composition, camera movement, color, framing, and editing - and how to start using them on purpose.
The Female Gaze is Anamorphic: The Rise of the Female Cinematographer
Articles, BlogMarch is Women’s History Month, a time usually reserved for looking back at the pioneers who paved the way. But this March, the most exciting story isn't in the past—it’s happening on the biggest screen possible. For fifty years, film students have debated "The Female Gaze" in theory classes. We’ve analyzed it as a narrative device or a political statement about who is being looked at. But this Women's History Month, the conversation has shifted. The female gaze is no longer just a metaphor for empathy or softness. It is technical. It is heavy. And thanks to the historic Oscar nomination for Sinners, we know it is anamorphic.
L.A. Film School Inside Look: Cinematography
Articles What Does a Cinematographer Do? When it comes to movies, visual storytelling is the most important part. Why do people go to movies anyway? Essentially, we go to see and hear something beautiful. Without cinematographers, there is…
Lightcapturers: Cinematography, Cars and Passion
Alumni News & InterviewsAuto-Focus In their beginning, there was light… as well as the talent to capture it on camera so beautifully that big names in the auto industry could not help but take notice. And they saw that it was good… Ok, so perhaps it wasn’t…
Film Grad Brandon Trost Wins Sundance Special Jury Award For Cinematography
Alumni News & InterviewsFilm grad Brandon Trost won the Sundance Special Jury Award for Cinematography for his work on the film, The Diary of a Teenage Girl. This marks a continuation of Brandon's successes in the industry as Director of Photography, including This…
FILM GRAD BRANDON TROST DISCUSSES WORKING ON THE INTERVIEW
Alumni News & InterviewsFilm grad Brandon Trost, who has worked as Director of Photography on such films as This Is The End, Neighbors, and Crank: High Voltage, stopped by campus to discuss working on the new film, The Interview.
