With last week and this weeks lecture’s on composition I thought Id take chance to study the composition of one of my proposed cinematographer’s to take stylistic influence from; John Alcott.
In collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, Alcott’s composition of images in the films he has worked on have a common trend.
One trend is that of symmetric image’s. Often featuring shots down the length of tall with the use parallel walls in the frame.
This is, exampled below can be seen throughout Alcott’s film as cinematographer, notably in the Shining with the image framed as said throughout the various corridor scenes in the Overlook Hotel, as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey where it is used in various forms, from the symmetrical alignment of planets as well as to depict the monolith from a low angle’s looking upwards on its imposing presence.
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