Fundamentals of cinematography in documentary filmmaking When. March 2, 2024.10:30-14:30 With the help of analysis of selected excerpts from documentary films, we will jointly consider what characterizes the work of cinematographers in this film genre. We will list and discuss the different variants of the cinematographer’s work during documentary filmmaking. We will analyze the work on the documentary according to the basic types of cinematography: Participatory camerawork as a form of personal relationship between filmmakers and their characters. Observational documentary as a classic form of non-interference in the film material. Home Video as a way of conveying the intimacy of the film’s characters. Documentary essay as a form of universalization, looking down on important world topics. In the following section, we will review the ways of working in each of the above topics. We will discuss the basic ways of using a camera, found and natural light, using a tripod and the difficult art of hand-held filming. Marcin Sauter – studied Photography and Film Directing. Photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza. Theater and film photographer. Member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers and the Polish Film Academy. Long-time lecturer at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Co-founder of the idea of the Bydgoszcz Film Chronicle. Author of dozens of individual photographic exhibitions. Director, screenwriter and cinematographer of more than twenty documentary and feature films. Winner of dozens of awards, including many major awards at film festivals around the world. Winner of the main prize at the world’s most important documentary film festival IDFA in Amsterdam and the Golden Frog at the Camerimage festival of cinematographers. He received a congratulatory letter from the President of the Republic of Poland for his artistic successes abroad.
