Abstract
In the process of transferring meaning, visual narrative arts such as painting, theater, dance, architecture, photography, cinema, and television are built on language images. This language, which is called the visual language, makes sense with visuals, that is, the visual language. Lighting is one of the vital elements in the creation of images as well as natural light. The director makes formal arrangements on light and lighting, one of the important elements of cinematography, creating meaning and especially fear with images. Camera angles are also important in the installation of the fear element. These elements of fear are constructed from an artistic and aesthetic point of view. In the visual narrative, light and camera angles are revealed in aesthetic structure that provides desired effect besides obtaining a certain lighting and shooting process. The aim of this study is to investigate how two cinematographic elements such as illumination and camera angles are used to create meaning in images.
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In terms of word meaning, cinema is an abbreviation of the word cinematography. Greek is composed of the words atos and graphein and it has meanings such as recording motion and detecting motion. At the time the camera was invented, the Lumiere brothers and all other inventors gave the camera names in terms of movement, vitality and life. This reflects the new invention movement as it is. Cinema has become a concept that covers both the screening location and all the cinema works as time goes on. However, the main function of the cinema is to record the movement of the camera and show it to the audience. Recording and transferring the movement has decorated people's dreams for years and has been achieved after long studies (Pearson, 2003: pp. 30-38). At the end of this process, cinema conveys what is happening in the world or what is wanted to be explained to the masses with the art of cinema. In addition, cinema has been in continuous development in the process of recording and transferring the image. Cinema continued to improve itself technically and aesthetically.
Although cinema is constantly developing, it is not an art that has completed itself in terms of both technical and narrative elements (Arslantepe, 2009: p. 7). Although cinema includes all the traditional arts from past to present, it also reveals its own narrative language. The most important process in the recognition of cinema as an art lies in the use of constantly developing technical tools to establish its own visual narrative language. It is distinguished from the other branches of art it has benefited from, especially with the methods used by the cinema during the shooting process and editing stage, through its own visual and narrative language. Therefore, cinema uses its own narrative language as an art branch with its technical features and the way it handles its subjects in parallel with these techniques. She establishes her subjects with aesthetic points of view in order to present the most beautiful to her audience with cinema techniques. Violence and fear that exist in all areas of human life are the main issues presented to the audience aesthetically among the main themes of the cinema.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Lighting: Lighting in cinema is primarily used to create a high-quality image. Insufficient or too much light used during shooting may cause the desired images to not appear during the assembly of the film. The light used should be in the same proportion in all camera movements used and the shots taken from different angles of the same scene. Otherwise, a rupture occurs on the stage. Good lighting enhances dramatic effect.
Editing: Editing can be defined as harmonious coordination between shots. Moving image and editing are two basic elements that form the basis of cinema. While editing is defined as the arrangement and arrangement of shots according to specific conditions and time, the ordering process is “a scientific reproduction of meaning”. Meaning is scientific because it is not a natural phenomenon, it is a human product.
Aesthetics: Aesthetics is used in a sense that indicates a person's taste about objects or is associated with aesthetic judgment. These objects can be natural, as well as an ordinary production of man or an object of art. In this use, the word “aesthetics” indicates a quality that any person has, rather than a term meaning.
Camera Angle: The angle of the camera determines both the viewpoint of the viewer and the area shown during shooting. The camera angle defines the area shot and the area the viewer sees. So every move and where the camera is positioned is an important component for cinematic narrative.
Violence: Violence, doing or having someone do something other than their will by applying force or pressure, violent acts of action are defined as coercion, assault, brute force, physical or psychological suffering or torture, striking and injury.
Fear: Fear arises from the fear of being destroyed and damaged. Basically, it is the result of the human tendency to survive alive, and the attack against warnings that give a signal of danger is also the escape from it, the expression of fear.