Animations generated by interactive 3D computer graphics applications are typically portrayed either from a particular character's point of view or from a small set of strategically-placed viewpoints. By ignoring camera placement, such applications fail to realize important storytelling capabilities that have been explored by cinematographers for many years. In this paper, we describe several o...

Cinematography describes principles and techniques pertaining to the effective use of cameras to film live action. The correct application of these principles and techniques produces filmed content that is more engaging, compelling and absorbing for the viewer. 3D computer games employ virtual cameras in order to provide the player with an appropriate view of the game world. These virtual camer...

"Passing" is the most controversial film adaptation by Rebecca Hall (2021) of Nella Larsen's novella (1929) with same title. The winner (2022) "Independent Spirit Award" for "Best Cinematography" has achieved unexpected success though it been produced in black and white. Hence, this article aims to investigate secret exploring phenomenon passing color-line problem; their racist implications cam...

Virtual reality filmmakers creating 360◦ video currently rely on cinematography techniques that were developed for traditional narrow field of view film. They typically edit together a sequence of shots so that they appear at a fixed orientation irrespective of the viewer’s field of view. But because viewers set their own camera orientation they may miss important story content while looking in...

We introduce the novel task of Pano2Vid — automatic cinematography in panoramic 360◦ videos. Given a 360◦ video, the goal is to direct an imaginary camera to virtually capture natural-looking normal field-of-view (NFOV) video. By selecting “where to look” within the panorama at each time step, Pano2Vid aims to free both the videographer and the end viewer from the task of determining what to wa...

1. All authors contributed equally to this work. The film sequences were produced with assistance of Judy Phu (Cinematography), Jeanne Tyson (Cinematography), Dylan Chapgier (Cinematography) , Nathan Meade (Assistant Camera/Gaffer), David Pregerson (Production Assistant), Jonathan Oldham (Actor), and David Atlas (Actor). We are grateful for the comments and suggestions of reviewers and colleagu...

Penang is among one of the states in Malaysia that embracetheir cultural heritage and maintain their architectural style from early decade. Its population extremely diverse ethnicity, having rich culture, linguistic religion. The issue sustainability arose when we have intention to ‘sustain’ a culture for tourism purpose but at same time it contradicted with process urbanization rapid developme...

Mechanics is the science of structure and movement that engineers need when they design things like bridges, aeroplanes or machines. It is equally applicable to the structure and movement of organisms, in the branch of science known as biomechanics (Box 1). Biomechanics is concerned with humans, animals, plants and individual cells. Some of its practitioners are motivated principally by curiosi...