Chen’s MA3DCA Blog

As I begin to write the first paragraph of the main section this week, I want to start with the technical changes caused by the change in time, and I will break this large section into subsections that look specifically at the technical changes in cinematography over time, the changes in the language of cinema from director to director, and how they are all connected to each other.

While writing this paragraph, different questions always popped into my mind, which inspired the writing of later chapters, looking for different answers in cases and essays.

This week, I started analysing cases and watching some of the films for reference, as well as starting to collate quotes as well as film references.

There are a lot of references as well as quotes from films in the film, which I have never used before in writing a dissertation, and this experience has shown me how to use these quotes and has taught me the importance of methodology.

This week I started writing the literature review section, before that I reviewed a lot of literature to get a better understanding of the topic I want to explore, and I also got a lot of questions in the process, the literature has helped me tremendously from the beginning of learning about Roger Deakins, to learning about the cinematography industry, and learning about the technological changes in photography.

Of course, in addition to the literature review I had to watch a lot of films, not only those of Roger Deakins, but also those of many well-known directors, directors of photography, which will help me significantly in my future discussion of the differences between the works of different directors and those of Roger Deakins, so my methodology relies mainly on literature and case studies (films).

One of the most crucial steps before writing the dissertation I think is to go to the literature, I am very interested in Roger Deakins’ photography techniques and his photography works, I have seen almost every one of his most director of photography’s works, and the camera language is another direction that I am good at in 3D animation, but I still lack a lot of relevant knowledge, for example, I am exploring how the techniques have changed with the development of time, and the technological reforms of different directors of photography in different periods, which is what I have to go to the literature to find out and understand.

Based on the advice given by my teacher last semester, I decided to slightly revise my thesis topic and narrow it down a little bit, so that I can discuss the issues in a more targeted way, and eventually my thesis topic is how Roger Deakins’ cinematography has developed through the advancement of film technology, and it only explores Roger Deakins’ cinematography techniques and works of the master of cinematography, and of course, I will still mention different directors and cinematographers in the process to explore their photography styles so as to compare and contrast with them, and to find out the issues and answer the questions from them. process, I will still mention different directors as well as cinematographers to explore their photographic styles, so that I can compare and contrast with them to better understand Roger Deakins’ cinematography, and to discover and answer questions from them.