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Learning Through Cinema

Filmmakers fill each frame with impactful visuals that enhance their narratives and stir the viewer's emotions, making movies a rich source of inspiration and education for photographers. Critically analyzing films can provide a deeper understanding of the visual aesthetics used to convey a story, emotion, or atmosphere.

From the mundane to the fantastical, each of the selected cinematic moments below explores how directors and cinematographers use composition, color, and light to craft impactful visuals with styles and ideas that can be adapted and applied to still photography.

Director

Richard Donner

Camera

Geoffrey Unsworth

Budget

55000000

Box Office

300500000

Released

December 14, 1978

Synopsis

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Superman

December 14, 1978

Director

Steven Spielberg

Camera

Dean Cundey

Budget

63000000

Box Office

920100000

Released

June 11, 1993

Synopsis

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

Jurassic Park

June 11, 1993

Director

George Lucas

Camera

Gilbert Taylor

Budget

11000000

Box Office

775398007

Released

May 25, 1977

Synopsis

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

Star Wars

May 25, 1977

Director

Ben Stiller

Camera

Stuart Dryburgh

Budget

90000000

Box Office

188133322

Released

December 18, 2013

Synopsis

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

December 18, 2013