Observations on film art : Off-center: MAD MAX’s headroom
by Kristin Thompson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 400 pages, 6 × 9 inches, 12 color illustrations; 36 b/w illustrations. [go to Amazon | go to The Frodo Franchise blog] Film Art: An Introduction Textbook written with Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith. Twelfth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. [go to Amazon] Film History: An Introduction Textbook written with Kristin Thompson (first-named author). Fourth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. [go to Amazon] Subscribe to this site's RSS feed. From Mad Max: Center Framed, by Vashi Nedomansky. DB here: If you’re a filmmaker, how do you frame the action you’re shooting? Put aside documentary shooting, which doesn’t allow you as many options as staged filming does. A lot of your compositional decisions depend on the aspect ratio of the image. After the mid-1910s, filmmakers relied heavily on close views—framing typically two or three people, or even just one. These “portrait” framings were well-suited
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