Although architecture might not be the first thing that pops in someone’s mind when thinking of cinematography, it has a considerable impact on the world of cinema. In cinematography, architecture is everywhere. Architecture is of great importance as it creates a stage and gives a lot more meaning to a scene or the whole movie. There are a lot great movies where architecture can be seen and directly connected to the movie, but I remember one movie that struck me as very interesting, Dogville. Unlike most of the movies, Dogville does exactly the contrary. Instead of using architecture or stage design, it does not use anything. I found that movie very interesting as the only thing that could be seen was tape on the floors to indicate rooms or buildings. This created a great effect as it allowed viewers to imagine and create their stage/architecture for this specific movie.
Great set design and architecture also allows producers to create a mood or to pass a message to the audience. It is also very easy nowadays to recreate that mood or feeling that a viewer gets with something that is actually not the real thing. A producer does not have to go all the way to Paris to film only one scene. Because some places have these architectural characteristics associated with them, it becomes a lot easier to reproduce it and make the viewers believe that it was filmed there.
Architecture within movies is of great importance for cinematography although I believe that cinematography will never be able to portray what and how architecture really is in real life. For example, a viewer will not get the same feeling of seeing notre dame in a movie or documentary than if he saw it in person.
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