Response To Movie

The cinematography in the documentary Rivers and Tides, not only brought the movie to a whole other level, it helped to get the subjects point across. All the shots had composition that was very appealing to the eye. The movie was about this guy who makes art out of things in nature. And the movie itself was art. Some of my favorite shots in the movie were this crane shot while the subject was putting together all the twigs and branches to make this huge circular structure. The shot allowed the viewer to see how big and beautiful the artwork he made was. Another one of my favorite shots was towards the end of the movie when the subject was taking these roots in the country, and making a mega collage. The goal of the cinematographer and director was to show art with art. So the framing of the art would be art itself, everything the artist did was just inflated with their shot of choice. There wasn’t much control of depth of field in the movie most very fast lenses, every shot was pretty much all in focus, but since it was a documentary and the composition was perfect, it didn’t matter. The overall theme of the film was to show of deep everything really is, in order to do this the shots need to be above in beyond. Their goals were easily accomplished with montages of the artwork and the subject on the field doing his artwork, they really conveyed what this guy was doing. All around Rivers and Tides is a very well done, relaxing documentary. The subject of the documentary is also a very good character and the movie is very thought provoking.