Gail Segal - Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera

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Cover image: Luxor(2020) directed by Zeina Durra. Cinematography by Zelmira Gainza.

Film-Clinic Productions. Mohamed Hefzy, Producer.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Segal, Gail, 1952- author. | Antonio, Sheril D., 1960- author.

Title: Dramatic effects with a movie camera / Gail Segal and Sheril Antonio.

Description: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. | Includes .

Identifiers: LCCN 2020036662 (print) | LCCN 2020036663 (ebook) |

ISBN: 978-1-3500-9949-4 (HB)
ISBN: 978-1-4742-8582-7 (PB)
ISBN: 978-1-4742-8584-1 (eBook)
ISBN: 978-1-4742-8583-4 (ePDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Cinematography. | Motion picturesProduction and direction.

Classification: LCC TR850 .S35 2020 (print) | LCC TR850 (ebook) | DDC 777dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036662

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036663

ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-9949-4

PB: 978-1-4742-8582-7

ePDF: 978-1-4742-8583-4

eBook: 978-1-4742-8584-1

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Today, as we proof the layout of our book, a viral pandemic circles the globe, leaving an imprint on every continent, forcing a reckoning. The movie industry has, like other venues for creative expression, taken a major hit. And yet storytellers committed to motion pictures have demonstrated pluck and ingenuity, using what resources they have on handeven if just a cell phone, a one-room apartment, and a catto stage and record drama. Within months of the pandemics onset, guilds across the world began revising protocols for safe media production so that the show could go on, and as soon as possible. All the while, demand for visual storytelling content increased, particularly as the parameters of our lives narrowed and the need to be transported became more urgent.

Movies have provided escape, fantasy, inspiration, or adventure, even a chance at love, and the enduring pleasure of catharsis as we see characters navigate lifes perils and survive. Some of these characters emerge with new insight. Others manage to transform, serving as an example. Movies have brought the human community with all its variations of race, creed, gender, and culture into our homes, inviting connection at a time when isolation has been our prescription.

Also, at this time, conversations have intensified, worldwide, around the subject of race and identity, and this too has impacted moviemaking, with film industry standards in America and elsewhere called on to become more inclusive, entitling unheard voices and fostering a new wave of stories indigenous to the storyteller.