aspect ratios

This series should be presented in a cinematic style. 

I'll obviously have to crop the images fairly heavily if I'm going to shoot with the Hassleblad, less so if large format. Either way, I've gotta decide pretty soon which one to go for, so I can get a better idea in my head about what I want to do. I'm leaning towards cinema - 1.85:1

mise en scene

The greatest elements of cinema & photography combined. The best definitions are found in this book:

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin (2003). Film Art: An Introduction, 6th ed.. New York: McGraw-Hill.

I attended a lecture on ambiguity and multiple narrative structures and the changing nature of modern art films or some such title by David Bordwell a few years ago. It was great. I just wanted to brag here :) But it really was great.


Bordwell's blog.