Cinematome  (Cinema to Me)

If loading the film flawlessly into the camera is like stretching a perfect canvas over a frame, then the prep

work and building of sets and rehearsals become your primer.  A base on which you will create your world.

Those first strokes of color on a canvas amount to nothing more than coverage.  The outlines of that house

you paint are your master shot, the curves of the garden paths your two shots and those flowers your close up.

But that is only the beginning; merely your first layer of paint.  Coverage is not art.  It is those moments of detail, of brutal beauty or silent horror; those movements and compositions and colors that evoke emotions by their mere existence. The colors blend and flow as one with the movement of the characters and sound - seamlessly, effortlessly. The moments of suspension – a quiver of an eye or a curl of a lock of hair or a drop of crimson blood rolling over dewy skin - those still frames that somehow move.

And then the dialogue becomes a remarkable reaction to the world you created.  The world of the actor becoming one with the world of the artist. 

A painting can have no such life.

- Geza Decsy

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