Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Music videos he has directed:
- They don't care about us
- Headlights
- White Lines
- Fight the power
- Hip hop Hooray
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee his real name, is a an American film director, producer, writer and actor. His production company 40 acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's films have examined race relations and colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues.
Camera techniques:
Faces in the crowd - BlacKkKlansman
The scene includes cutaways to the crowd — reaction shots that are more traditional at first, but as Ture’s speech continues to build, the cutaways become close-ups of audience members, warmly lit against a black background, the rest of the crowd seemingly faded away. They are a montage of faces, with two or three filling the frame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJSPpYvaKY - (0:58 to 3:00)
Floating down the street - Mo' Better Blue
Become known as the double dolly shot. The effect makes characters seem as if they are floating down a street rather than walking. It’s achieved by putting both the camera and the actor on dollies (wheeled platforms on a track)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mshs3b4-3MQ - (0:48 to 1:10)
Squeezing the frame - Crooklyn
Shooting those scenes with anamorphic lenses but running them in a normal aspect ratio, which created a squeezed and compressed frame that made the shots look elongated and odd.
Spike Lee
Music videos he has directed:
- They don't care about us
- Headlights
- White Lines
- Fight the power
- Hip hop Hooray
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee his real name, is a an American film director, producer, writer and actor. His production company 40 acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's films have examined race relations and colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues.
Camera techniques:
Faces in the crowd - BlacKkKlansman
The scene includes cutaways to the crowd — reaction shots that are more traditional at first, but as Ture’s speech continues to build, the cutaways become close-ups of audience members, warmly lit against a black background, the rest of the crowd seemingly faded away. They are a montage of faces, with two or three filling the frame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJSPpYvaKY - (0:58 to 3:00)
Floating down the street - Mo' Better Blue
Become known as the double dolly shot. The effect makes characters seem as if they are floating down a street rather than walking. It’s achieved by putting both the camera and the actor on dollies (wheeled platforms on a track)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mshs3b4-3MQ - (0:48 to 1:10)
Squeezing the frame - Crooklyn
Shooting those scenes with anamorphic lenses but running them in a normal aspect ratio, which created a squeezed and compressed frame that made the shots look elongated and odd.
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