3D, hand Drawn, or classic cinema, which is the median you concern, it is only a one aspect that matters whether your production would touch viewers’ hearts or just be a dump.
It is Cinematography (Storytelling/ Directing).
It is not how much quality or superior your cameras are or how talented your actors are or how professional your team is or how much cutting edge graphics you have added to your cinema… it all matters how much sharp and inventive and artistic the cinematographer’s and the director’s eye is. If you are able to show a burning desert as a vast vista through the camera, Ah! You got the gift!
Director sets the floor, which actors and other events should be taken place, and the mental image that he sees in his mind would be the final print that will be presented as the movie. So the beauty of the cinema mostly depends on how much the cinematographer/ Director is imaginative and able to present his ideas through a movie. Obviously he must see the whole story in his mind before everyone; he should find the exact flow which really matches the story. The physical aspects I mentioned earlier matters, of course, but a quality cinematographer/ Director could create those things through his own mind. Maybe the story uses to develop the cinema would be insignificant, but it’s all up to the cinematographer’s/ Director’s artistic/ creative ability to pop out the story as something important.
Cinematography/ Directing is an art! As long as it is being an art, mostly it develops as a talent. Indeed you could be skilful with methods of cinematography and directing. But methods have its’ own limitations. And if you wish to see beyond those borders you should be have a little bit of creativity, that you can use what exist with you and create something entirely different/ new out of those.
Anyone can learn methods but only few could create their own which can always express their imagination widely and give something new to the audience. So if you have the ability of opening your mind so wide and think about things (anything, including day to day ordinary matters) to express in different ways and want to create your own worlds or another dimensions rather than naturally exist and got the power of present things by adding realism, well count on yourself, you could find your own ways to present things through movies. So, I believe we don’t need to get qualified from any university as cinematographers or directors to be a one. If we have the potential we could do it ourselves. On the other hand; every art is a science so if you filled with a little bit of science, wow! Obviously you can do amazements. So breathing the life into a movie is not an easy task, but if you have the power it would be as easy as watching a movie.
CG (computer Generated) cinematography, I presume this term originally expressed by me, because I never heard it from anywhere else. By CG cinematography I consider all the part in production of a movie runs in a computer environment; including sound developing and composing. Actually all of my creations could be consider as entirely CG productions. Many people say sometimes; ‘it is a bad move totally depends on computers’. But I would like to ask that, who would choose a “push bicycle” rather than a motor car to travel 100km? It all depends on the way you use the machinery and your creativity. I should say that pushing a button doesn’t create all of these big productions. One must take a hard effort, dedication and brainstorming on those. And if you are really a creative person and have the potential of sacrificing, all those hard working days would be a pleasure to you, because you know that eventually all the pleasures will be yours.
Writer - Rumesh Tharanga.
Written Date - 07/ 30/ 2009
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