Director Oriented Virtual Cinematography

Traditionally film making costs a huge amount of money and a great deal of time and labor. Converting traditional techniques of film making into virtual techniques could save money, time and labor. In this research, we have established a director friendly virtual camera work, which gives a film director the freedom to look through the shots before shooting. This way, a director is able to make a judgment on shot composition, rhythm of any kind of camera movement, actors’ placements and their movements. The image size of frame is the key to develop the virtual camera operation, which is the similar concept of camera operation in the real film making. Considering the image sizes of actors in frame determines the sizes of shots and that helps to place the actors at appropriate positions. Controlling different kinds of camera movements and the speed of movements also depends on the image sizes of actors. A director as a user has the creative control in assessing and evaluating the artistic concern of shot composition in entering the input. This kind of camera operation and imaging is the foundation of director oriented Virtual Creative Cinematography. The system is also regarded as more than an alternate of storyboarding concept at preproduction stage of film making and an advanced approach of monitoring the continuity of every shot which is done by video-assist system at the time of live action shooting.